He will receive the award for two German editions, which are part of the writer’s third novel Amadoka.
Ukrainian writer Sofia Andrukhovich and translators of her book Amadoki in German, Alexander Kratochwil and Maria Weissenbeck became winners of the International Hermann Hesse Prize.
The award “for literary achievement of international level including its translation” will be given for the German edition of Die Geschichte von Romana (Roman history) and Die Geschichte von Uljana (Ulyana’s story), which is part of the writer’s third novel Amadoka.
The jury noted that Andrukhovych’s book presents “a broad panorama of 20th-century Ukraine in a formally diverse and surprising way” and that his writing displays “linguistic power, inventiveness and ambition.”
We remind you that the Norwegian Writers’ Union posthumously awarded the Ukrainian writer Victoria Amelina.
Source: korrespondent
