Claudio Magris

Claudio Magris has been a clear voice in Central European literature for over half a century and is among the leading contemporary intellectuals. This writer, literary critic and Germanist recounts and recomposes the complex mosaic of Central Europe in Danube (Penguin, 2016), winner of the Bagutta Prize, placing it in the Italian cultural pantheon. From the vast panorama that embraces the river’s path to the Black Sea, Magris’s gaze narrows to more circumscribed locations in Microcosms (Penguin, 2016), with which he won the Strega Prize. Among international awards, he was awarded the Prince of Asturias Prize for Literature in Oviedo in 2004, and the Friedenspreis des deutschen Buchhandels, the German Book Trade Peace Prize, at the Frankfurter Buchmesse in 2009. Latest work translated to German: Gekrümmte Zeit in Krems (Hanser, 2022).