Dorothee Elmiger Wins 2025 German Book Prize

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Dorothee Elmiger, who lives in New York, wins the German Book Prize and talks about her modest life and hard work.

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A Swiss author receives one of the most prestigious German book awards for her work. The book is immediately out of print.

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Swiss author Dorothee Elmiger has won the Deutscher Buchpreis, the most prestigious literary award for German-language novels. The jury called her book, Die Holländerinnen (The Dutch Women), "a fascinating journey into the heart of darkness." The book tells the story of a writer who travels through the South American jungle with a theater group, following in the footsteps of two Dutch women who disappeared there years ago. The story is partly ba…

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The Swiss writer Dorothee Elmiger wins the German Book Prize for her novel "The Dutch Women": the courageous decision for a title that is to be available again at the end of the week.

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Dorothee Elmiger wins the renowned literary award, endowed with 25,000 euros. As every year, he is the eagerly awaited prelude to the Frankfurt Book Fair: On Monday evening, the German Book Prize 2025 was awarded to Dorothee Elmiger in the Frankfurt Roman for her book "The Dutch Women." "This novel is an event, according to the jury. Dorothee Elmiger was born in 1985 in Switzerland and lives as a freelance author and translator in New York.