At the beginning of November, the writer Clemens Setz will receive the Büchner Prize in Darmstadt.

The German Academy for Language and Poetry justifies it like this: “His sometimes disturbing drasticness sticks to the heart of our present because it follows a deeply humanistic impulse.

Clemens J. Setz combines this philanthropy with encyclopedic knowledge and a wealth of poetic and linguistic imagination. ”Then something follows with“ radical contemporaneity ”, which perhaps has to do with the fact that Clemens Setz can be found more often on social media.

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What he's doing there and what that has to do with his writing, we thought, we'd better ask him ourselves. We're talking about eight lines that brought him to literature, about particular interests, the balance between reality and the fantastic the animate and the inanimate, synesthesia and the psyche.

We announce the winner of our literary riddle from September - and with this episode we say goodbye to our listeners.

After a little more than two years of book podcasts, it is time for us to pass the baton on to colleagues from the FAZ's feature pages, who in November - after many special episodes with discussions from the FAZ's book fair stand - will be on the air with new ideas and a new program will go.

We wish you every success, we look forward to it and hope you, dear listeners, are too.  

Novels, stories and poems by Clemens Setz have been published by Suhrkamp and Residenz Verlag.

Most recently, “The Bees and the Invisible” was published by Suhrkamp, ​​a non-fiction book about planned languages.

It has 416 pages and costs 24 euros.

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