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The Hindu On Books newsletter | A Booker prize for Jenny Erpenbeck, Namita Gokhale’s new book, on James Bond’s creator and more
6 months, 3 weeks ago

The Hindu On Books newsletter | A Booker prize for Jenny Erpenbeck, Namita Gokhale’s new book, on James Bond’s creator and more

The Hindu  

Welcome to this edition of The Hindu on Books Newsletter. On the list for Political Writing Book Prize are Alpa Shah’s Incarcerations, Nathan Thrall’s A Day in the Life of Abed Salama, Cat Bohannon’s Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution, Daniel Finkelstein’s Hitler, Stalin, Mum & Dad, Yaroslav Trofimov’s Our Enemies Will Vanish: The …

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International Booker Prize 2024 | In ‘Kairos’, Jenny Erpenbeck offers an East German perspective
7 months ago

International Booker Prize 2024 | In ‘Kairos’, Jenny Erpenbeck offers an East German perspective

The Hindu  

Published : May 22, 2024 17:33 IST - 5 MINS READ Ask your average German about Jenny Erpenbeck, and they may very well respond, “Jenny who?” Yet the contemporary German author has made a name for herself beyond Germany’s borders; she’s showered with prizes and has even been predicted to one day win the Nobel Prize in literature. Yet, in …

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Review: Kairos by Jenny Erpenbeck
7 months ago

Review: Kairos by Jenny Erpenbeck

Hindustan Times  

Jenny Erpenbeck’s Kairos is suffused with a sense of grief. There is no better description of the feeling the novel evokes than Katharina’s own words: “This, she thinks, feels like getting on a sleigh and setting off down a mountainside, which you know will end in an abyss.” East Berlin in 1990. The soul of the novel is the contrast …

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German author Jenny Erpenbeck wins International Booker Prize for tale of tangled love affair
7 months ago

German author Jenny Erpenbeck wins International Booker Prize for tale of tangled love affair

Associated Press  

LONDON — German author Jenny Erpenbeck and translator Michael Hofmann won the International Booker Prize for fiction Tuesday for “Kairos,” the story of a tangled love affair during the final years of East Germany’s existence. Erpenbeck said she hoped the book would help readers learn there was more to life in the now-vanished Communist country than depicted in “The Lives …

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German author Jenny Erpenbeck wins International Booker Prize for tale of tangled love affair
7 months ago

German author Jenny Erpenbeck wins International Booker Prize for tale of tangled love affair

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy German author Jenny Erpenbeck and …

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Jenny Erpenbeck’s ‘Kairos’ wins the International Booker Prize 2024
7 months ago

Jenny Erpenbeck’s ‘Kairos’ wins the International Booker Prize 2024

The Hindu  

German author Jenny Erpenbeck and translator Michael Hofmann won the International Booker Prize for fiction Tuesday for “Kairos,” the story of a tangled love affair during the final years of East Germany’s existence. Ms. Erpenbeck said she hoped the book would help readers learn there was more to life in the now-vanished Communist country than depicted in ‘The Lives of …

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Erpenbeck gets into the Nobel conversation again
8 months, 1 week ago

Erpenbeck gets into the Nobel conversation again

The Hindu  

April 13, 2024 07:16 pm | Updated 07:16 pm IST - Bengaluru The path to the Nobel prize in literature is not paved with prizes of lesser stature, which you have to win before you get the Big One. Yet, with Jenny Erpenbeck’s Kairos short-listed for the International Booker, it is fair to assume the German author, a personal favourite, …

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