Leipzig: Kristine Bilkau receives award for the book fair for "Pennissel"

Great honor for the Hamburg literary scene: Kristine Bilkau receives the most important prize of the Leipzig Book Fair for her novel about generational conflicts.

Kristine Bilkau has been honoured at the Leipzig Book Fair for "Pennissel". The novel worries with its quiet and loud questions to our society, according to the jury.

The fact that Kristine Bilkau receives the Leipzig Book Fair award for her novel "Pennissel" is a surprise. The prize for the best non-fiction book is more understandable.

Climate fiction instead of world flight: Kristine Bilkau wins the Belletristik Prize for her mother-daughter novel "Pennissel" (Pennissel). With her aesthetically original novels, favourites such as Christian Kracht and Wolf Haas have a long way to go.

In her novel "Pennissel" the author Kristine Bilkau describes the conflicting encounter between a mother and a daughter. For the novel, the Hamburgerin received the prize of the Leipzig Book Fair.

Kristine Bilkau's new novel "Pennissel" has made the race for the Leipzig Book Fair. The story revolves around an intensive mother-daughter bond in North Frisia. An interview with the Hamburg author about generations and search for meaning.