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Ingeborg-Bachmann-Preis 2008
The Festival of German-Language Literature (german: Tage der deutschsprachigen Literatur, links=no) is a literary event which takes place annually in Klagenfurt, Austria. During this major literary festival which lasts for several days a number of awards are given, the major one being the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize, first awarded in 1977 and one of the most important awards for literature in the German language. History In the mid seventies, the journalist and writer Humbert Fink and the chairman of the Austrian Radio and TV (ORF) studio in Carinthia at that time, Ernst Willner, decided to establish a literary competition based on an event held by Gruppe 47. They were able to enlist Marcel Reich-Ranicki amongst others onto the original jury. The result was the Festival of German-Language Literature, which has taken place annually since 1977 and is televised live by ORF. The Ingeborg Bachmann Prize The main prize of the Festival is given in memory of Ingeborg Bachmann (25 June ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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31 may refer to: * 31 (number) Years * 31 BC * AD 31 * 1931 CE ('31) * 2031 CE ('31) Music * ''Thirty One'' (Jana Kramer album), 2015 * ''Thirty One'' (Jarryd James album), 2015 * "Thirty One", a song by Karma to Burn from the album ''Wild, Wonderful Purgatory'', 1999 Film and television * ''31'' (film), a 2016 horror film * 31 (Kazakhstan), a television channel * 31 Digital, an Australian video on demand service, and before 2017 an Australian community television channel from Brisbane, Queensland. Other uses * Thirty-one (card game) See also * * * * * Channel 31 (other) * Highway 31 (other) * Section 31 (other) * List of highways numbered 31 The following highways are numbered 31: International * Asian Highway 31 * European route E31 Australia * Hume Highway ** Hume Motorway ** Hume Freeway * - South Australia ** Gorge Road ** Little Para Road ** South Para Road ** Lyndoch Val ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lydia Haider
Lydia ( Lydian: 𐤮𐤱𐤠𐤭𐤣𐤠, ''Śfarda''; Aramaic: ''Lydia''; el, Λυδία, ''Lȳdíā''; tr, Lidya) was an Iron Age kingdom of western Asia Minor located generally east of ancient Ionia in the modern western Turkish provinces of Uşak, Manisa and inland Izmir. The ethnic group inhabiting this kingdom are known as the Lydians, and their language, known as Lydian, was a member of the Anatolian branch of the Indo-European language family. The capital of Lydia was Sardis.Rhodes, P.J. ''A History of the Classical Greek World 478–323 BC''. 2nd edition. Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010, p. 6. The Kingdom of Lydia existed from about 1200 BC to 546 BC. At its greatest extent, during the 7th century BC, it covered all of western Anatolia. In 546 BC, it became a province of the Achaemenid Persian Empire, known as the satrapy of Lydia or ''Sparda'' in Old Persian. In 133 BC, it became part of the Roman province of Asia. Lydian coins, made of silver, are among the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Wray (novelist)
John Henderson (born 1971), better known by his pen name John Wray, is a novelist and regular contributor to ''The New York Times Magazine''. Born in Washington, D.C., of an American father and Austrian mother, he is a citizen of both countries. He grew up in Buffalo, New York, attended the Nichols School for his high school education, and then graduated from Oberlin College, majoring in Biology. He dropped out of graduate school twice: first from New York University's M.F.A. program in poetry, where he won an Academy of American Poets Prize, and then, a few years later, from Columbia University's fiction program. He currently lives in Mexico City. Work Wray's first novel, ''The Right Hand of Sleep'', (Knopf, 2001) received positive reviews and was awarded a Whiting Award. His second novel ''Canaan's Tongue'' (2005) is based on the legend of the preacher John Murrell, described by Mark Twain in '' Life on the Mississippi''. In connection with his second novel, he did a 600-m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ferdinand Schmalz
Ferdinand is a Germanic name composed of the elements "protection", "peace" (PIE "to love, to make peace") or alternatively "journey, travel", Proto-Germanic , abstract noun from root "to fare, travel" (PIE , "to lead, pass over"), and "courage" or "ready, prepared" related to Old High German "to risk, venture." The name was adopted in Romance languages from its use in the Visigothic Kingdom. It is reconstructed as either Gothic or . It became popular in German-speaking Europe only from the 16th century, with Habsburg rule over Spain. Variants of the name include , , , and in Spanish, in Catalan, and and in Portuguese. The French forms are , '' Fernand'', and , and it is '' Ferdinando'' and in Italian. In Hungarian both and are used equally. The Dutch forms are and ''Ferry''. There are numerous short forms in many languages, such as the Finnish . There is a feminine Spanish, Portuguese and Italian form, . Royalty Aragón/León/Castile/Spain *Ferdina ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Raphaela Edelbauer
708 Raphaela is a minor planet orbiting the Sun. Observations performed at the Palmer Divide Observatory in Colorado Springs, Colorado during 2007 produced a light curve with a period of 20.918 hours with a brightness amplitude of 0.45 ± 0.02 in magnitude Magnitude may refer to: Mathematics *Euclidean vector, a quantity defined by both its magnitude and its direction *Magnitude (mathematics), the relative size of an object *Norm (mathematics), a term for the size or length of a vector *Order of .... References External links Lightcurve plot of 708 Raphaela Palmer Divide Observatory, B. D. Warner (2007) Asteroid Lightcurve Database (LCDB) query form) Dictionary of Minor Planet Names Google books – Observatoire de Genève, Raoul Behrend – Minor Planet Center * * 000708 Discoveries by Joseph Helffrich Named minor planets 000708 19110203 {{beltasteroid-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anna Stern (author)
''The O.C.'' is an American Television Television is one of the major mass media outlets in the United States. , household ownership of television sets in the country is 96.7%, with approximately 114,200,000 American households owning at least one television set as of August 2013. ... series created by Josh Schwartz for the Fox Broadcasting Company, FOX Network in 2003. Schwartz serves as executive producer while also writing and directing for the show, including the premieres and finales of all seasons. The show began with seven main characters which eventually became 9 by the end of the first season. Since then, characters from that first season have left the show, with new main characters having been both written in and out of the series. Originally, it follows the life of Ryan Atwood, a troubled but tough young man from a broken home who is adopted by the wealthy and philanthropic Sandy Cohen, Sandy and Kirsten Cohen. Ryan and his surrogate brother Seth Cohen, Seth, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Özlem Özgül Dündar
Özlem is a common feminine Turkish given name. In Turkish, "Özlem" means ''yearning'' and ''missing''. Given name * Asiye-Özlem Sahin (born 1976), Turkish-German professional boxer * Dilara Özlem Sucuoğlu (born 1998), Turkish-German footballer * Fatma Özlem Tursun (born 1988), Turkish female football referee and former women's footballer * Özlem Araç (born 1989), Turkish football manager and former women's football player * Özlem Başyurt (born 1971), Turkish basketball coach and teacher, former footballer and basketball player * Özlem Becerikli (born 1980), Turkish bronze medalist Paralympian powerlifter * Özlem Ceren Dursun (born 2003), Turkish cross-country skier * Özlem Çarıkçıoğlu (born 1994), Turkish Olympian alpine skier * Özlem Çekiç (born 1976), Danish politician of Turkish origin * Özlem Conker (born 1973), Turkish actress * Özlem Denizmen, Turkish businesswoman * Özlem Kaya (born 1990), Turkish middle distance runner * Özlem Kaya (swimmer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tanya Malyarchuk
Tetiana "Tania" Volodymyrivna Maliarchuk ( uk, Ukrainian: Тетяна "Таня" Володимирівна Малярчук, ger, Tetjana "Tanja" Wolodymyriwna Maljartschuk, born 1983 in Ivano-Frankivsk) is a Ukrainian-born author who writes in both Ukrainian and, more recently, German. Career Tania Maliarchuk began with several volumes of short stories and novellas: ''Adolfo's Endspiel, or A Rose for Liza'' (2004), ''From Top to Bottom: A Book of Fears'' (2006), ''How I Became a Saint'' (2006), ''To Speak'' (2007), and ''Zviroslov'' (2009). Her first novel, ''Biography of an Accidental Miracle'', was published in 2012. Maliarchuk has been writing in German since 2014. In 2018 she won the Ingeborg Bachmann Award for ''Frösche im Meer'' (Frogs in the Sea), an unpublished text she read at the Festival of German-Language Literature. Her Ukrainian work has been translated into German since 2009 (''Neunprozentiger Haushaltsessing'', ''Biografie eines zufälligen Wunders'', ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ronya Othmann
Ronja Richardsdotter Stanley (formerly Gullichsen; born 9 November 1991), known by their stage names Ronya and New Ro, is a Finnish-British singer-songwriter. Life and career Ronya was born in Siuntio, Finland. They came to the fore in 2011 with their single "Annoying", which was played at YleX radio station. Ronya signed a contract with Warner Music Finland in 2008 when they were 16 years old. Their debut album ' was released on 13 June 2012. Ronya released their second album ''Tides'' on 19 October 2015. Ronya's father is British-born music producer . They graduated from in 2011. Ronya is a Swedish-speaking Finn The Swedish-speaking population of Finland (whose members are called by many names; fi, suomenruotsalainen) can be used as an attribute., group=Note—see below; sv, finlandssvenskar; fi, suomenruotsalaiset) is a linguistic minority in Finl .... Ronya is non-binary, and uses they/them pronouns. References 1991 births Living people People from Siu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Julia Jost
Julia is usually a feminine given name. It is a Latinate feminine form of the name Julio and Julius. (For further details on etymology, see the Wiktionary entry "Julius".) The given name ''Julia'' had been in use throughout Late Antiquity (e.g. Julia of Corsica) but became rare during the Middle Ages, and was revived only with the Italian Renaissance. It became common in the English-speaking world only in the 18th century. Today, it is frequently used throughout the world. Statistics Julia was the 10th most popular name for girls born in the United States in 2007 and the 88th most popular name for women in the 1990 census there. It has been among the top 150 names given to girls in the United States for the past 100 years. It was the 89th most popular name for girls born in England and Wales in 2007; the 94th most popular name for girls born in Scotland in 2007; the 13th most popular name for girls born in Spain in 2006; the 5th most popular name for girls born in Sweden ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
