Uwe Timm awarded with Lessing Prize
Congratulations to Uwe Timm for receiving the Lessing Prize 2021!
Endowed by the city of Hamburg with € 10.000, the Lessing Prize is one of the most important German literary awards. Hannah Arendt, Peter Weiss, Max Horkheimer, Jean Améry, and Karl Schlögel are among past winners - authors committed to the maxims of the Enlightenment in the spirit of Gotthold Ephraim Lessing.
"The writer Uwe Timm is a craftsman of memory. With a political vision and the ability to capture the passage of time, his books illustrate humanism and historical consciousness. This prize is in recognition of the great literary work of one of the most important authors of contemporary German-language literature." - Dr. Carsten Brosda, Senator for Culture and Media, Hamburg
Uwe Timm's works are published by Kiepenheuer & Witsch, in Italy Sellerio published his latest novel Icaria (Un mondo migliore) in 2019 and reissued The Invention of the Curried Sausage (La scoperta della currywurst) last year.
