The novel author Eva Menasse draws in the coming year in the Mainz town clerk’s apartment. The Vienna-born, Berlin-based succeeds from Anna Katharina Hahn, as the city Mainz announced on Monday.
The common price of ZDF, 3sat, and the city of Mainz is part of the city write an apartment in the shadow of the Mainz Dom, a cash prize of 12 500 euros. The award is expected to be in early March, 2019 as presented.
The decision for the 35. Time issued prize for literature the Association of the Jury with Marsbahis the appreciation for “a great people teller, who writes with a fine empathy, and keen sense of Humor about fragile relations”. You can customize your characters with great linguistic precision and describe situations with the finest nuances. “At the same time, Eva Menasse is a mixed public, argues effectively for fundamental rights in the digital age, and is directed against discrimination and right-wing agitation.”
Eva Menasse submitted her first novel, “Vienna” in 2005. 2009 was followed by crystals of the “Venial sins” and 2013 “Virtually”. In the past year, she presented the collection “animals Advanced”. “Mainz can look forward to Eva Menasse,” said culture Department head, Marianne Grosse.
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