During her acceptance speech for the German Book Prize, Kim de l’Horizon shaved her head in solidarity with women in Iran.
Kim de l’Horizon is the first non-binary person to receive this award, worth €25,000. Touched, de l’Horizon first thanked his family and his grandmother, who is apparently identical to the main character in his novel “Blood Book” – sang a song and shaved his hair during his performance and political acceptance speech.
“This award is not just for me. I think the jury also chose this text against hate, for love. For the fight of all people who are oppressed because of their bodies”, said de l’Horizon and dedicated the award to “brave women of Iran”. There was long-standing applause from the audience in Frankfurt.
“Born in 2666, studies sorcery”
Instead of a resume, the synopsis reads: “born 2666 in Gethen” and “studies witchcraft with Starhawk”. In fact, Kim de l’Horizon was born near Bern in 1992, studied German, film and theater in Zurich and literary writing in Biel. “Blutbuch” (Dumont), his debut, had already received the Jürgen Ponto Foundation’s Literature Prize.
In 2021, the German Book Prize was Antje Ravik Strubel gone to “Blue Woman”. The German Book Prize has gone to Austria twice so far: 2005 to Arno Geiger (“We’re fine”) and 2017 in Roberto Menasse (“The capital”).
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