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Three young European writers – three books based on travel experiences and dedicated to the subject of travel. In this case, the world is accessible to a generation striving to newly define its relationship to mobility, keeping informed, networking and interculturality, and ultimately to justice and freedom.
In cooperation with the literature podcast auf buchfühlung
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Elisa Shua Dusapin
b. 1992, is a Swiss writer who grew up with her French father and South Korean mother in Paris, Seoul and Porrentruy. She currently lives in Switzerland. She has won several prizes including the Swiss Literature Award. Published in German: Ein Winter in Sokcho, 2018.
Elisa Shua Dusapin has written an enchanting novel full of mirrored reflections about a resistant outer world and an inner world that is difficult to reach. And all of this in a wintry, sparse prose that rarely psychologizes and leaves plenty of free space between the words.
SWR 2
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Lana Bastašić
b. 1986, is a Bosnian writer. She is editor of the Spanish literature magazine Carn de cap and co-founder of 3+3 sisters, a project that promotes writers from the Balkans. She was awarded the European Union Prize for Literature in 2020. Recently published in German: Fang den Hasen, 2021.
With captivating language between rebellious defiance and biting humour, Bosnia’s exciting literary shooting star, Lana Bastašić, tells the story in “Fang den Hasen” of an extraordinary friendship amidst the turmoil of Yugoslavian history.
Fischer Verlag
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Robert Prosser
b. 1983, is an Austrian writer. He writes novels, librettos, for theatre and is well known for his literary and musical performances. Curator of Babelsprech, a project to promote young poetry in German-speaking countries. Recently published: Gemma Habibi, 2019.
Prosser writes the portrait of a generation without a compass – across all classes and nationalities.
Doris Kraus, Die Presse
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