Author Award: Booker Prize

The winner of the 2024 International Booker Prize, Jenny Erpenbeck is an acclaimed German author. Her oeuvre spans across works of fiction such as The Book of Words, The Old Child and Visitation, among others, as well as the nonfiction collection Not a Novel. She won the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize for her 2012 novel The End of Days. In 2016, Jenny Erpenbeck was awarded the Thomas Mann Prize. She was a finalist for the 2024 Neustadt Prize and won the 2024 International Booker Prize for Kairos.