Award Ceremony and Long Night of the Shortlist
Festival from 6 p.m., Award Ceremony 9 p.m.
Haus der Kulturen der Welt and Stiftung Elementarteilchen will honor a foreign-language book and its translation into German with the fifth International Literature Award. The awards ceremony will be preceded by polyglot readings and conversations with the shortlisted authors and translators.
Program
18 h
Celebration speech by Aris Fioretos
18.30 h
"Ragings"
Conversation and reading with Zakhar Prilepin, Erich Klein, Susanne Macht and Egon Ammann on Zakhar Prilepin's Sankya, Matthes & Seitz Berlin, 2012
(In Russian with English and German simultaneous translation)
"Dog's Life"
Conversation and reading with Jean Rolin, Holger Fock, Sabine Müller and Kersten Knipp on Jean Rolin's Einen toten Hund ihm nach, Berlin Verlag, 2012
(In French with English and German simultaneous translation)
19.45 h
"Chinese Whispers"
Conversation and reading with Andrej Bitow, Rosemarie Tietze and Ilma Rakusa on Andrej Bitow's Der Symmetrielehrer, Suhrkamp Verlag, 2012
(In Russian with English and German simultaneous translation)
"Seeing Spectres"
Conversation and reading with Valeria Luiselli, Dagmar Ploetz and Ricarda Otte on Valeria Luiselli's Die Schwerelosen, Verlag Antje Kunstmann, 2013
(In Spanish with English and German simultaneous translation)
"Second Hand"
Conversation and reading with Grete Osterwald and Marie Luise Knott on Lloyd Jones' Die Frau im blauen Mantel, Rowohlt Verlag, 2012
(In English with German simultaneous translation)
21 h
Award presentation: Teju Cole and Christine Richter-Nilsson
Honouring speech by Claudia Kramatschek, conversation and reading with the laureates
More about the Award Winners...
Followed by a dinner
Moderator of the evening: Bernd M. Scherer, director HKW
The Shortlist
Andrej Bitow: Der Symmetrielehrer
Suhrkamp Verlag, 2012
translated from the Russian by Rosemarie Tietze
Prepodavatel’ simmetrii. Roman-ėcho, Fortuna Ėl, Moskau 2008
Teju Cole: Open City
Suhrkamp Verlag, 2012
translated from the English by Christine Richter-Nilsson
Open City, Random House, New York 2011
Lloyd Jones: Die Frau im blauen Mantel
Rowohlt Verlag, 2012
translated from the English by Grete Osterwald
Hand Me Down World, Text Publishing, Melbourne 2010
Valeria Luiselli: Die Schwerelosen
Verlag Antje Kunstmann, 2013
translated from the Spanish by Dagmar Ploetz
Los ingrávidos, Editorial Sexto Piso, Mexico 2011
Zakhar Prilepin: Sankya
Matthes & Seitz Berlin, 2012
translated from the Russian by Erich Klein and Susanne Macht
Sankya, Ad Marginem Press, Moskau 2006
Jean Rolin: Einen toten Hund ihm nach
Berlin Verlag, 2012
translated from the French by Holger Fock and Sabine Müller
Un chien mort après lui, P.O.L éditeur, Paris 2009
The Jury
Egon Ammann publisher
Hans Christoph Buch writer
Kersten Knipp journalist/critic
Marie Luise Knott author/critic/Head of the German Translator Fund
Claudia Kramatschek journalist/critic
Ricarda Otte journalist/critic, Deutsche Welle
Ilma Rakusa writer/translator
More information: hkw.de/literaturpreis