06/05/2023 22:34 (act. 06/05/2023 22:40)
Jan Kuhlbrodt received the Döblin Prize on Saturday ©APA/dpa (archive)
This year, the Alfred Döblin Prize, donated by the writer Günter Grass (1927-2015), goes to Leipzig-based author Jan Kuhlbrodt (“The Return of the Animals”). The prize, endowed with 15,000 euros, was presented to the 57-year-old man on Saturday at the Berlin Literary Colloquium, as announced by the co-organizer Academy of Arts.
From the jury’s point of view, Kuhlbrodt wrote multi-layered prose with “Crippled or Walking Text” that “confronts his own multiple sclerosis disease with great fearlessness, startling comedy, and theoretical wit”. MS (Multiple Sclerosis) is an inflammatory disease of the central nervous system.
The Alfred Döblin Prize has been awarded every two years since 1979 for an unfinished prose manuscript. Younger recipients include Deniz Utlu, Ulrich Woelk and María Cecilia Barbetta.