Description
Winner of the European Union Prize for Literature
About the Author
Iris Hanika, born in Wurzburg in 1962, has lived in Berlin since 1979. She received the prestigious Hans Fallada Prize in 2006. Her novel Treffen sich zwei was shortlisted for the German Book Prize in 2008. The Bureau of Past Management was awarded the European Union Prize for Literature and the LiteraTour Nord Prize. She was a resident at the Villa Massimo in Rome in 2017/18. Her most recent novel Echos Kammern won the Hermann Hesse Literaturpreis and the Prize of the Leipzig Book Fair. Abigail Wender is a poet and translator. Her debut poetry collection, Reliquary, was published by Four Way Books in February 2021. Her writing and translations have appeared in Asymptote, The Cortland Review, Disquieting Muses Quarterly, Epiphany, Kenyon Review Online, New Orleans Review, SWIMM, Tupelo Quarterly, and others. She serves as president of Friends of Writers and vice-president of the Poetry Society of America. A graduate of the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College, she lives in New York City and Sheffield, Massachusetts.
Reviews
"A novel that opens up a window. A masterpiece." Denis Scheck, ARD druckfrisch
Awards
Winner of European Union Prize for Literature 2010.
Book Information
ISBN 9783863913076
Author Iris Hanika
Format Paperback
Page Count 176
Imprint V & Q Books
Publisher V & Q Books