Nobel Prize winner Herta Muller at Belgrade Book Fair

One of the biggest fairs in Europe, the 62nd International Belgrade Book Fair, will take place from October 22 through 29, featuring over 450 local and foreign exhibitors. The focus will be on contemporary German literature, and four countries from the German speaking area, Germany, Austria, Switzerland and Lichtenstein, will have a joint presentation. More than 20 prominent writers from these countries will be present, the most renowned of whom is certainly Herta Muller, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, for whom a representative literary evening will be organized at the Yugoslav Drama Theater on October 23.

The fair will be opened by Karl-Markus Gauss, one of the most prominent contemporary essayists and critics from Austria. His roots lie in Vojvodina, more precisely, in Futog, from where his parents moved, following WW2, to Salzburg, where Gauss was born. He graduated from the University of Salzburg (German History and Philology) and continues to live in the city. Since 1991, Gauss has been editor in chief of Literatur und Kritik (Literature and Critical Reviews), and, in 2006, he became a member of the German Academy for Language and Poetry. He specializes in writing about national minorities, some of which were previously unknown to many of his readers. Furthermore, he often writes about eastern European countries, which he has visited on several occasions. He also strives to promote writers from those areas, who are relatively unknown to German readers.

He has won the Award of the Austrian Book Sellers for Tolerant Thinking and Acting, the European Essay Prize and the Award of the Austrian Ministry of Culture for publishing in the field of culture. During his stay in Belgrade, Gauss will take part in the European Alphabet conversation with Laszlo Vegel and Ivan Ivanji at the Belgrade Book Fair on October 24.

Beogradski sajam knjiga

2017 Belgrade Book Fair

62nd Belgrade Book Fair

Herta Muller

Nobel Prize in Literature

literature

Yugoslav Drama Theater

Karl Markus Gauss

Laszlo Vegel

Ivan Ivanji