Τη μέρα που πάγωσε ο ποταμός by Σταύρος Χριστοδούλου

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The 47 authors and books from 13 participating countries were nominated for the 2020 European Union Prize for Literature.Thirteen authors have been announced as winners of the 2020 European Union Prize for Literature. Conter (Centre national de littérature), Jean-Claude Henkes (Librairie Ernster) and Jérôme Jaminet (literary critic).'

Glesener (president – University of Luxembourg), Jean Back (author), Claude D. While an awareness of the pretexts undoubtedly heightens the pleasure of reading, Kirps’ stories manage to stand on their own however as they are entirely carried by a carefully crafted and powerful authorial voice and by the exceptional strength of Kirps’ imaginative power. The jury was particularly impressed by the skillful intertextual weavings, the transplantation of plots and characters and their recasting in new unprecedented ways. Under the precise and often humorous pen of Francis Kirps, texts by Virginia Woolf, Kurt Tucholsky, Franz Kafka, Propser Mérimée, Heinrich von Kleist, Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach and Ingeborg Bachmann as well as the fairy tale Little Red Riding Hood are revisited. The title-giving ‘mutations’ are programmatic in two major regards: thematically, as the stories cast moments and instances of transformation of the characters as central to the plot and conceptually, as each story is in fact a rewriting of a preexisting text from European literature. 7 Geschichten & 1 Gedicht by Francis Kirps is a collection of seven short stories and a poem written in German, with one story featuring passages written in Luxembourgish. 7 Erzählungen und ein Gedicht (Hydre Éditions, 2019).ĭie Mutationen. 'The jury is delighted to announce that the European Union Prize for Literature for Luxembourg is awarded to Francis Kirps for his work Die Mutationen. Sammlung zur Luxemburger Bibliothekslandschaft und Buchgeschichteįrancis Kirps, the Winner for Luxembourg 2020 Sammlung von Karten, Plänen, Atlanten und Ansichten

Τη μέρα που πάγωσε ο ποταμός by Σταύρος Χριστοδούλου