Consecrated for her first novel Blutbook, non-binary author Kim of the Horizon made a point of expressing her support for the women protesting in Iran.
Swiss-born non-binary author Kim de l’Horizon shaved her head on stage after winning the prestigious German Book Prize on Monday, in a show of solidarity with women protesting in Iran. “This prize is not just for me“, declared the author during the presentation of the German Book Prize (Deutscher Buchpreis) in Frankfurt, ahead of the Frankfurt Book Fair, the largest in the world, scheduled for Wednesday to Sunday.
“Non-Binary Narrator”
“I think the jury chose this text also to send a signal against hate, for love and for the fight of all those people who are repressed because of their bodiessaid the moustachioed author, award-winning for her first novel, Blutbuch (pound of blood). After singing a song, she pulled out an electric razor and shaved her head on stage.
The jury said,inspired» by the novel, featuring, «with great creative energy“, a “non-binary narrator“. The German Book Prize rewards the best German-language novel of the year and is endowed with a prize of 25,000 euros.
Iran has been rocked by a wave of protests since the death a month ago of Mahsa Amini, 22, after her arrest by vice squad. Many artists have shown themselves, especially on social networks, cutting a lock of hair in solidarity with the struggle of Iranian women.
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