This year's ‘Margarete Schrader Prize for Literature’ from Paderborn University, endowed with 8,000 euros, goes to the writer Martin Becker. According to the jury, the author is being honoured for his ‘worldly prose, which creates spaces of remembrance in the wake of world literature and intones a literary local history with its very own tone that reconnects past and present’.
In addition to radio plays such as ‘Lost in Praha’ and ‘Väter haben sieben Leben’ as well as volumes of stories and essays such as ‘Ein schönes Leben’ (2007) and ‘Warten auf Kafka. Eine literarische Seelenkunde Tschechiens’ (2019), the novels “Der Rest der Nacht” (2014), “Marschmusik” (2017), “Kleinstadtfarben” (2021) and most recently “Die Arbeiter” (2024).
The Margarete Schrader Prize for Literature is the only major literary prize in Germany to be awarded by a university. It is named after the Paderborn University writer Margarete Schrader (1914-2001), who left funds to the university in her will to promote literature in the Westphalia region. The prize has been awarded since 2003. Previous winners have been Hans-Ulrich Treichel, Judith Kuckart, Kevin Vennemann, Martin Heckmanns, Jörg Albrecht and Michael Roes.
The award ceremony is expected to take place at the end of the winter semester in January 2025 at Paderborn University.
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