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the atrocities
“A dedication to those, who did not travel but fled, to those who did not survive. A lament – a eulogy.”
FROM THE LAUDATION FOR THE GERTRUD KOLMAR DEMAND PRIZE
“we will ...
Ronya Othmann
RONYA OTHMANN was born in Munich in 1993 and lives in Leipzig. She has received many prizes for her work including the Caroline Schlegel Prize for essay writing, the Open Mike poetry prize, the Gertrud Kolmar Prize and the Audience Award of the Ingeborg Bachmann Competition. She also started writing the "Import Export" column for the Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung in 2021. In 2020, Hanser published her novel Die Sommer for which she was awarded the Mara Cassens Prize.
The Summers
A novel filled with tenderness and anger at a world torn in two
The village is in northern Syria, near the border to Turkey. Leyla spends every summer there. She knows its smells and ...