2024-07-27 10:19:19
Andrea Meyer, State Secretary for Arts and Culture, today presented the Austrian State Prize for European Literature to Polish writer Joanna Bartow at the Mozarteum Museum in Salzburg. The prize is €25,000.
“Joanna Bartow tells dozens of short stories in her rich books, which are deftly woven into wonderful novels that draw us readers into a seemingly alien world from the first sentence, But it becomes familiar after a few pages,” Secretary Meyer said. “There you live among the characters in the novel, who seem so real, alive, tangible that you wouldn’t be surprised to meet them on the street. Joanna Bator describes her birth Diva Ubrzych (from whom she left at the age of 19 for Tokyo, New York, Berlin and London) etched herself on the map of world literature and gave a place in the memory of readers for the defiant woman from Poland.
“Some books spread hatred and imprison readers in small, scary worlds. Other books allow us to overcome our limitations,” Joanna Bartow said in her acceptance speech. “They help us realize that we are freer than we thought. Ready to push and transcend boundaries. Connected to others through invisible golden threads. Each of us remembers books like this, which undoubtedly created and shaped us and will We are saved from despair. Books change the world by changing people’s realities. I’m excited because my stories have the power to transcend boundaries and bring people together in the realm of our collective imagination that we all desperately need.
along with “An intense and emotional exploration” Praising Sabine Shore says its female characters live”, “Barto traces both political and social upheaval: the transition from state socialism to communism to capitalism and its attendant effects. But in every system, women are the losers. Conflicts arose over their bodies and those of their children. This still applies today to everyday life as well as to war and terror strategies, as seen in current crisis areas. Bartow’s novel reports on the major changes that Europe experienced in the 20th century and its impact today. They show how important it is for Europe House to know more about the history of the eastern member states with which we are closely connected. They warn us all of the hauntings and urge us not to remain silent or do nothing.
The Austrian State Prize for European Literature has been awarded since 1965 to a complete literary work by a European writer that has attracted special international attention and must be documented in translation. The work must also have a German translation. Most recently, the award was awarded to Mircea Cărtărescu, Andrzej Stasiuk, Karl Ove Knausgård, Zadie Smith, Michel Houellebecq, Drago Jančar, László Krasznahorkai, Ali Smith and Marie Ndiaye.
The five-member jury of the Austrian National European Literature Prize 2024 consists of Dr. Bernhard Fetz, Benedikt Föger, Walter Grond, Mag.a Claudia Romeder and Dr. Sabine Scholl.
Jury Statement:
“Joanna Bartow was born in the Lower Silesian town of Wałbrzych/Waldenburg, from which the German population was expelled from 1945, to which Joanna Bartow refers several times in her works. The violent history of World War II, a war that continues to shape relations between Europe and Poland to this day, Barto deals with the traumatic experiences of the past century in complex stories, much of which focuses on female characters. It uses literature to recharge burdened places, giving subjects space and voice, bringing them closer to readers, and impressively connecting the past to current political and social realities. Her approach is never didactic; Observational, fluent in language, interesting, imaginative and intelligent, the author also published articles, articles and columns in magazines such as Tygodnik Powszechny, National Geographic and Voyage, speaking out against fundamentalist restrictions, especially. are the fundamentalist constraints that women and queer people face in backward regimes Joanna Barto teaches at universities in Warsaw, New York, London, and Tokyo, gives lectures on poetry, and is a visiting professor of world literature in Bern. Teaching about heterotopias, weirdness and outsiders, including Japanese culture, Joanna Barto tells the great history of Central Europe from a female perspective through her literary work.
About Joanna Bartow
Joanna Bator, born in 1968, has published articles in important Polish newspapers and magazines and conducted research in Japan for several years. Esther Kinsky’s German translation of her novel Sandberg is a literary event. Since then, Joanna Bartow has been recognized as one of the most important new voices in European literature. For Dark, Almost Night (2012), she won Poland’s most important literary award, the Negi Prize. Joanna Bator is a university lecturer living in Japan and Poland.
Publication in German translation: “Bitternis”, Frankfurt 2023. Kinsky in Polish, “Sandberg”, Frankfurt, 2014.
Awards: Samuel Bogumilinder Prize 2022, Eichendorfer Prize 2022, International Hermann Hesse Prize 2018, Usedom Prize 2017, City of Chemnitz 2017 International Stefan Heim Prize, 2016 World Cultural House International Literary Award (finalist), Spycher: 2014 Leick Prize, 2013 Negi Prize, 2011 World Cultural House International Literary Award (finalist)
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