Author Florjan Lipuš will receive the highest Austrian prize for literature, have been reported by the Austrian Ministry of Culture. He will receive the prize for his quality literary work. Tomaž Gerden.
Florjan Lipuš was born on May 4, 1937 in Lobink near Železna Kapla and became known for his work The errors of young Tjaž, which was published in 1972 in his native language – Slovenian. Nine years later it was translated into German by Helga Mračnikar and Peter Hendke and in 1981 German speaking Austrians were able to read his book.
When the book was first published, the German-Slovenian town signs in the province of Carinthia were removed. Slovenian minority lost its rights and that was when Florjan Lipuš bravely published his book. The errors of young Tjaž and his later works, such as The abolition of my city from 1983 and his recent works Construction from 1995 and Boštjan's flight, which was published fifteen years ago, talk about difficult conditions of life in his native region, about the constant fight for ethnic rights, and their fight against assimilation. Lipuš also uses different language and stylistic innovations and is considered as an innovative and individual artist. In this year's novel Gramoz, he uses his most common subject matter – the fight against Nazism and his heritage. His mother, who was killed in Ravesnbrück, was also a victim of Nazism.
Florjan Lipuš, also the winner of Prešeren Fund Prize in 2004, will receive the Grand Austrian State Prize on October 1.