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The Slovenian author Ana Marwan wins the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize 2022 in Klagenfurt for her text “The Green Toad”.
The Bachmann Prize 2022 goes to the Slovenian Ana Marwan. In her text “The Green Toad”, a pregnant woman thinks about the future. In the laudatory speech, juror Klaus Kastberger praised the Slovenian’s language: “The author speaks German as if she had never lived in any other language. She drives the German in front of her.»
During the reading, the jury had previously praised the text as subtle and humorous. The author herself did not want to explain her work at the award ceremony – he speaks much better than she does.
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The Swiss-Iraqi Usama Al Shahmani read his text “Portrait of Disappearance” in Klagenfurt.
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Usama Al Shahmani had started for Switzerland. In his text “Portrait of Disappearance”, the writer tells of his childhood in Iraq. The jury was divided: Klaus Kastberger praised the wit and humor of the “terrific” story, while Philipp Tingler criticized his “Literature Club” critic colleague: Shahmani’s work “is bursting with conventionality,” says Tingler.
The main prize, worth 25,000 euros, and the other prizes were awarded according to a new points system that replaced the previous public vote among the jury members.
Nava Ebrahimi, who comes from Iran and lives in Graz, won last year. The prize commemorates the writer Ingeborg Bachmann, who was born in Klagenfurt.