Swiss Book Prize 2024 to be awarded at the BuchBasel Festival
Published: Sunday, Nov 17th 2024, 05:50
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This Sunday, the secret of who will win the 2024 Swiss Book Prize will be revealed. There are five novels to choose from: three that deal with a family story in different ways, a special novel about home and a mischievous theatrical fairy tale.
The family stories come from Zora del Buono with "Seinetwegen", from Martin R. Dean with "Tabak und Schokolade" and from Michelle Steinbeck with "Favorita". Del Buono explores the circumstances surrounding the accidental death of her father 60 years ago. Dean places her own family history in a colonial historical context and spans an arc from Trinidad to the Wynental in Aargau. Steinbeck, on the other hand, takes the death of her narrator's mother as her starting point to denounce femicide today and in the 1940s.
Mariann Bühler has been nominated for her first novel "Verschiebung im Gestein". In it, she focuses on three characters in existential upheaval situations and uses the genre of the Heimatroman to tell quiet stories of emancipation.
The fifth nomination goes to author and playwright Béla Rothenbühler. In "Polifon Pervers", two young women shake up cultural life in a small town. The dialect novel pokes fun at the cultural sector, cultural funding and politics - and focuses on amusing entertainment.
The prizes will be awarded this Sunday as part of the BuchBasel International Literature Festival. The main prize, the Swiss Book Prize, is endowed with 30,000 francs; the four other nominees will each receive 3,000 francs. The award, which was established in 2008, is sponsored by the LiteraturBasel association and the Swiss Booksellers and Publishers Association (SBVV).
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