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Erich Fried Prize 2019
In 2019 it was renowned German writer • Christoph Hein’s turn to award the prize and he has chosen poet, novelist and theatre director • Steffen Mensching as the recent winner of the Erich Fried Prize.
Extract from the juror’s decision: “With Schermanns Augen (Schermann’s Eyes) • Steffen Mensching achieved to write a novel comprising the first half of the 20th century with painstaking precision.”