{"id":428657,"date":"2025-09-16T10:38:29","date_gmt":"2025-09-16T10:38:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/428657\/"},"modified":"2025-09-16T10:38:29","modified_gmt":"2025-09-16T10:38:29","slug":"swiss-author-shortlisted-for-german-book-prize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/428657\/","title":{"rendered":"Swiss author shortlisted for German Book Prize"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    <img src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/8ecaa6c4343ee4d93d5ff17e24309bfa6dcbc1a1-90011039.jpg\" width=\"1400\" height=\"1050\" alt=\"Dorothee Elmiger still in the running for the German Book Prize\" loading=\"eager\" decoding=\"sync\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                Dorothee Elmiger still in the running for the German Book Prize            <\/p>\n<p>            Keystone-SDA        <\/p>\n<p>            Listen to the article        <\/p>\n<p>            Listening the article        <\/p>\n<p>                Toggle language selector            <\/p>\n<ul class=\"read-aloud\/track-selector__options\">\n<li>\n<p>                            English (US)                        <\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>                            English (British)                        <\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>            Generated with artificial intelligence.        <\/p>\n<p>        With her novel Die Holl\u00e4nderinnen (the Dutch Women in English), the Zurich author has made it to the final of the German Book Prize along with five other nominees. Swiss author Jonas L\u00fcscher, on the other hand, didn&#8217;t make it onto the shortlist.\n<\/p>\n<p>        This content was published on    <\/p>\n<p>        September 16, 2025 &#8211; 11:15\n<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.swissinfo.ch\/eng\/latest-news\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>+Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Dorothee Elmiger is an observer of society. Her book Die Holl\u00e4nderinnen is about a documentary theatre group that gets lost in the tropical jungle on the trail of two missing Dutch women.<\/p>\n<p>\n    More<\/p>\n<p>    <img src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/538c3b16aef6bf677b46d8dcf420b365-swi_che_1020_kern_dorothee_elmiger_06-data.jpg\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1706\" alt=\"Dorothee Elmiger in ihrem Habitat\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"auto\"\/><\/p>\n<p>        More    <\/p>\n<p>        Culture\n        <\/p>\n<p>        Dorothee Elmiger: \u2018Writing is like the gesture of a child\u2019    <\/p>\n<p class=\"teaser-wide-card__excerpt\">\n<p>                        This content was published on                    <\/p>\n<p>                        Nov 7, 2020                    <\/p>\n<p>                Dorothee Elmiger has received three Swiss Book Prize nominations for works that challenge literary conventions.            <\/p>\n<p>    <a class=\"teaser-wide-card__link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.swissinfo.ch\/eng\/culture\/dorothee-elmiger-writing-is-like-the-gesture-of-a-child\/46140902\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/p>\n<p>            Read more: Dorothee Elmiger: \u2018Writing is like the gesture of a child\u2019<br \/>\n    <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Jonas L\u00fcscher, born in Schlieren near Zurich and lives in Munich, was not shortlisted for Verzauberte Vorbestimmung (Enchanted Predestination).<\/p>\n<p>In addition to Elmiger, the shortlist for the German Book Prize includes Kaleb Erdmann for Die Ausweichschule, Jehona Kicaj for \u00eb, Thomas Melle with Haus zur Sonne, Fiona Sironic with Am Samstag gehen die M\u00e4dchen in den Wald und jagen Sachen in die Luft and Christine Wunnicke for Wachs. 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