LITERATURE
Swiss Book Prize: Who belongs in Swiss literature?
Five titles, one award: what the rules of the Swiss Book Prize reveal about literary belonging.
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Books, authors, prizes and the book market.
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Judith Kuckart: What passes from dance into storytelling
Judith Kuckart came to prose through dance and theatre. In her books, the body remains a narrative measure – and the stage a place where language first takes shape.
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Fiston Mwanza Mujila: Writing between languages
From French into German, from the written sentence to the voice: Fiston Mwanza Mujila's literature thrives in transition.
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What the NDR Non-Fiction Prize tells us about our times
Politics, artificial intelligence, vulnerability: three shortlisted titles show just how wide-ranging the questions addressed by socially relevant non-fiction can be.
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John Berger and the politics of seeing
Berger connected close attention to images with questions of power and everyday life. But when does social criticism itself become a template?
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Klaus Mann and the work of building a free public sphere
In exile, Klaus Mann created forums against isolation through magazines. Their ambitions were great, their existence precarious.
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Leonard Cohen: What the melody obscures when we read
His songs are so familiar that they interrupt us as we read. An essay on Cohen’s poetry, prose and the power of our own expectations.
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Austrian Book Prize: What nominations can do
A nomination is not the end of reading, but often its public beginning. How a list becomes conversations and encounters with books.
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Ilse Aichinger: beyond Herod’s Children
The novel is only one way into Ilse Aichinger’s work. Radio plays, poems and terse prose reveal how far her scepticism towards language reached.
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Sonja Sophie Kreis: A debut with a backstory
A first novel, but not a start from scratch: Sonja Sophie Kreis and the attention surrounding her ahead of the Swiss Book Prize.
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Another prize for Bazyar: How literary consensus emerges
Two juries, the same novel: Bazyar’s awards show how literary judgements take shape and gain traction in the book trade.
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Shida Bazyar and the gaps in village history
An invented place, a suppressed past: Shida Bazyar’s novel asks what home conceals and what literature can bring to light.
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John Berger at 100: How we see
Images do not speak outside history. Berger shows how ownership, power and everyday life help shape our gaze – and where his interpretations go too far.
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