Graz Literature Prize for Kathrin Röggla
Culture
The writer Kathrin Röggla – a native of Salzburg – received the 15,000 euro Franz Nabl Prize 2021 from the City of Graz on Wednesday. The award has been presented every two years since 1975 and is the most valuable literary prize in Graz. Röggla lives in Berlin and Cologne.
The Alfred Kolleritsch Appreciation Prize, which was awarded for the first time, was awarded to the Slovenian author and internationally active literary multiplier Aleš Steger and the “poesiegalerie” initiative, the city announced.
Laudation by the Salzburg resident Präauer
According to the jury, the Salzburg writer Kathrin Röggla never ceases to amaze with the scope and scope of her work – from prose, drama and essays to radio plays and multimedia installations. Röggla is one of the “most productive and innovative authors in German-language literature”. She combines social criticism and language criticism, is “obligated to the values of the Enlightenment”.
The Salzburg writer Teresa Präauer contains some in her eulogy Röggla as an author who poses the question of the “reality reference” of literature particularly precisely.
Biographical
Röggla was born in Salzburg in 1971, studied northern German and journalism at the University of Salzburg and lives in Berlin and Cologne. She works as a prose and playwright and develops radio plays and acoustic installations. She has been a member of the Academy of Arts in Berlin since 2012 and of the German Academy for Language and Poetry in Darmstadt since 2015. Poetics lectureships take her to Saarbrücken, Zurich, Bamberg and Cologne.
They have received numerous prizes for their books, including the Italo Svevo Prize, the Anton Wildgans Prize, the Arthur Schnitzler Prize, the Bruno Kreisky Prize for political books and the Franz Hessel Prize. With the Graz Franz Nabl Prize, you are now in a prominent line of honorees such as the Nobel Prize winners Elias Canetti, Peter Handke and Herta Müller or Ilse Aichinger, Martin Walser, Christoph Ransmayr and Dževad Karahasan, to name a few.