Booker Prize winner Jenny Erpenbeck: Exploring the past from an East German perspective
The winner of the International Booker Prize and tipped for a Nobel, Jenny Erpenbeck is relatively unknown in Germany.
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The winner of the International Booker Prize and tipped for a Nobel, Jenny Erpenbeck is relatively unknown in Germany.
Jenny Erpenbeck's novel, translated by Michael Hofmann, follows a couple in 1980s East Berlin and their tumultuous relationship, while Germany undergoes its own political transformation.
Jenny Erpenbecks Kairos, a novel about a torrid love affair in the final years of East Germany, won on Tuesday the International Boo
She is the first German novelist to win the award, Michael Hofmann is the first male translator to receive the honour. Read more at straitstimes.com.
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