{"id":264716,"date":"2008-09-23T13:44:43","date_gmt":"2008-09-23T13:44:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wdev.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent-dev\/2008\/09\/23\/german-book-prize-shortlist-2\/"},"modified":"2018-04-16T17:29:50","modified_gmt":"2018-04-16T17:29:50","slug":"german-book-prize-shortlist-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/2008\/09\/23\/german-book-prize-shortlist-2\/","title":{"rendered":"German Book Prize Shortlist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In other news from last week, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dw-world.de\/dw\/article\/0,2144,3654870,00.html\">shortlist for the 2008 German Book Prize<\/a> has been announced. Here are the six finalists:<\/p>\n<p>Dietmar Dath: <em>Die Abschaffung der Arten<\/em> (Suhrkamp)<\/p>\n<p>Sherko Fatah: <em>Das dunkle Schiff<\/em> (Jung und Jung)<\/p>\n<p>Iris Hanika: <em>Treffen sich zwei<\/em> (Droschl)<\/p>\n<p>Rolf Lappert: <em>Nach Hause schwimmen<\/em> (Hanser)<\/p>\n<p>Ingo Schulze: <em>Adam und Evelyn<\/em> (Berlin Verlag)<\/p>\n<p>Uwe Tellkamp: <em>Der Turm<\/em> (Suhrkamp)<\/p>\n<p>Coincidentally, the English translation of Ingo Schulze&#8217;s 600-page <em>New Lives<\/em> will be released by Knopf days after the winner of this prize is announced . . . <\/p>\n<p>From the announcement:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The list is not representative of &#8220;any uniform thematic or stylistic line,&#8221; said jury spokesman Rainer Moritz in Frankfurt am Main on Wednesday, Sept. 17. Rather, it&#8217;s an indication of the &#8220;rich diversity of very readable novels submitted by German-language authors in 2008.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p>All of the nominees are between the ages of 39 and 49; in other words, all part of the middle generation of current authors.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The winner will be announced on October 13th, just before the start of the Frankfurt Book Fair.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In other news from last week, the shortlist for the 2008 German Book Prize has been announced. Here are the six finalists: Dietmar Dath: Die Abschaffung der Arten (Suhrkamp) Sherko Fatah: Das dunkle Schiff (Jung und Jung) Iris Hanika: Treffen sich zwei (Droschl) Rolf Lappert: Nach Hause schwimmen (Hanser) Ingo Schulze: Adam und Evelyn (Berlin [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":292,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[67486],"tags":[1836,14316],"class_list":["post-264716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","tag-cwp","tag-german-book-award"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264716","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/292"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=264716"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264716\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":356846,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264716\/revisions\/356846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}