The Chilean writer Daniela Catrileo and the German writer Sonja M. Schultz will obtain the Anna Seghers Prize this 12 months. The award from the Anna Seghers Basis, value 12,500 euros every, will happen on June sixth on the Academy of Arts Berlin will likely be awarded, the muse introduced. The award ceremony takes place alternately in Mainz and Berlin yearly.
In accordance with the muse, the Anna Seghers Prize is awarded to younger authors from German-speaking nations and Latin America who, within the spirit of Anna Seghers, construct a bridge between the 2 literary worlds and advocate for a fairer world with their works.
These are the award winners
The writer and philosophy lecturer Daniela Catrileo, born in Chile in 1987, grew up bilingual: Spanish and Mapundungun, the language of the indigenous Mapuche individuals. Her tales, novels and essays centered on types of racist and sexist-motivated violence, it was stated. A juror emphasised that Catrileo makes use of all means and genres of literature and oral expressions of Mapuche tradition – and in addition music, visible arts and efficiency.
The award winner Sonja M. Schultz, who was born in 1975 within the Hamburg space and lives in Berlin, revealed her extremely acclaimed debut novel “Canine Son” in 2019. Her second novel “Mauerpogo” from 2025 places younger rebellious individuals on the narrative heart who reside in a rustic that now not exists, the GDR. It is in regards to the self-assertion of younger individuals “who do not wish to match into the normative worth system of a society,” a juror was quoted as saying.
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