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Alzey (dpa / lrs) - Writer Daniel Kehlmann receives the Elisabeth Langgässer Literature Prize of the city of Alzey, endowed with 7,500 euros.
Like the later Nobel Prize winners Thomas Mann and Günter Grass, Kehlmann had an international breakthrough at a relatively young age, according to a message from the city on Monday.
Kehlmann was only 30 when his novel "Measuring the World" was published in 2005.
The book was one of the greatest successes of German post-war literature.
In this, as for example in his book “Tyll” from 2017, the fictional life story of Till Eulenspiegel, Kehlmann consciously alienates historical material and destroys any readers' expectations of a reliable narration of the past.
Kehlmann creates a "virtuoso game with reality and fiction".
The award is to be presented to the writer, who has also been a guest lecturer in poetics at the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz, on February 27 of next year.
Communication from the city