Spycher: Leuk Literature Prize

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The Spycher: Leuk Literature Prize is an international Swiss literature prize that was launched in 2001 by the Leuk Castle Foundation . With the award project, the foundation aims on the one hand to fill the bishop's palace in Leuk, which is currently under restoration, with life and on the other hand to reinforce the “international radiance” of the place. The literary property of the award winners is kept in the Spycher for a long time .

The price

The award winners receive a right of residence in the medieval village of Leuk for two months each year for five years. Various apartments are made available to the award winners, in “lonely chalets as well as in restored Renaissance houses”. They also receive a monthly grant of 1,600 Swiss francs and reimbursement of travel expenses. The international authors can withdraw into the special landscape of Upper Valais , they leave traces in the community through their regular visits and there are overlaps and new networks through simultaneous visits by award winners from previous years. The Spycher fills up.

background

After the parish of Leuk made the bishop's palace available to the Leuk Castle Foundation in 1996 in order to restore it and turn it into "a place of communication and encounter, of an open mind, interdisciplinarity and humanistic spirituality" (all quotations according to self-description ), Mario Botta could be won over for the building project, whose glass dome has already been completed. With the long-term project of the Spycher: Leuk Literature Prize, the foundation cooperates with the Leukerbad International Literature Festival , the Rilke Festival in Sierre , the Raron artist studio and the Brig media library . The foundation sees further cultural tasks in the focus on the fine arts and in working with children. She is a member of HALMA , the European network of literary centers.

jury

In 2012, the independent jury included the writer Thomas Hettche , the publisher Sabine Dörlemann , the journalists Regula Freuler ( NZZ ) and Hubert Spiegel ( FAZ ) and the literary scholar Christian Döring . As of April 1, 2014, the jury has only consisted of three and consists of Döring, Dörlemann and Hettche.

Award winners

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ see note on the homepage
  2. ↑ Press release according to book report from May 21, 2012
  3. ↑ Press release according to boersenblatt.net of June 24, 2013
  4. ↑ June 18, 2014
  5. ↑ The «Spycher: Leuk Literature Prize 2019» goes to Radka Denemarková , article from July 26, 2019 on 1815.ch, accessed on July 26, 2019.