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German Book Prize (Deutscher Buchpreis) どいつしょせきしょう

Edition 18 (2022)

German-language literature prizeNovel prizeAnnual literature prize

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Kim de l'Horizon きむ ど ろりぞん Winner

A non-binary narrator follows a path that begins with a grandmother’s dementia and moves through family silence, matrilineal memory, the body, class, and the limits of language. The result is a story of self-exploration and self-unmaking that keeps shifting shape.

It traces unnamed fractures again through experiments in language.

336 pages
non-binary identityfamily historymemorylanguage experimentmatrilineal inheritancethe body