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The Italian novelist, short story writer, essayist, playwright and translator, has received this year’s FIL prize. The award itself goes to a romance language author, as a life achievement award. The Italian author and Germanophile Claudio Magris is the recipient of this year’s award. Many readers will know Magris for his monumental travelogue/drowned novel, “Danube,” that traces the Danube and its history; from its disputed beginning to its eventual conclusion. The book is rich with stories, culture, history, and a writing style that is engaging, warm, lyrical and not written in typical textbook style. Magris however has continued to write and translate, with novels, short stories, and essays under his best. The FIL jury released the following statement praising Magris:
“A thinker in diverse languages, Magris encapsulates the best humanist tradition by combining his own experience with the collective memory of the history of central Europe as a space for dialog between the cultures of the Danube and the Mediterranean.”
If “Danube,” states anything about Magris as a writer and a intellectual, it is that he is a thinker in the humanist traditions, of combining his own experience with the collective memory of history; but also taking the stories of history and the everyday and mixing them into a tapestry that showcases the diversity of the human experience.
Congratulations Claudio Magris
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