Lutz Seiler is honored with the Georg Büchner Prize
The writer Lutz Seiler will be awarded the Georg Büchner Prize 2023 this Saturday (November 4). The novelist and poet will be honored by the German Academy for Language and Poetry with a ceremony at the Staatstheater in Darmstadt. The prize, which is endowed with 50,000 euros, is one of the most important literary awards in the German-speaking world.
Seiler has found his own, unmistakable voice as a novelist and poet - melancholic, urgent, sincere, full of wonderful echoes from a long literary tradition, the jury explained its choice. The laudatory speech will be given by journalist and literary scholar Lothar Müller.
The Academy has been awarding the prize to writers who write in German since 1951. According to the statutes, the prizewinners must "stand out in particular through their work" and "make a significant contribution to shaping contemporary German cultural life". The prize is funded by the federal government, the state of Hesse and the city of Darmstadt.
Lutz Seiler's literary contributions have earned him the prestigious Georg Büchner Prize, making him one of the notable award-winning writers in the German-speaking world. The ceremony for this esteemed award will take place at the Staatstheater in his hometown of Darmstadt.
Source: www.dpa.com
