03 February 2023

OPEN CALL: Literary scholarship - Writer of the City of Graz

Open Call - Literary scholarship - Writer of the City of Graz

The current City Graz City Writer-guest has just settled at the "Dichterklause" Cerrini on the Schloßberg in Graz, but the call for the next period (9/2023-8/2024) has to be put out into the world. 

Within the literary scholarship, Graz City Writer international authors are invited by the Cultural Department to Graz for one year to take a personal view of our city from the outside position and to dedicate themselves to their literary development.

Duration of fellowship: September 2023 to August 2024 
Deadline Application: 31st March 2023

The condition of participation is an announced literary project to be worked on during the stay.

The scholarship award provides a free apartment in the historic Cerrini-Schlössl on the Schloßberg Graz in the middle of the city as well as a monthly allowance of Euro 1,300.

The residency is well known in the international literary scene and is accordingly widely recognized. In 2022 there were a total of 59 applications from 21 countries. The 2022/2023 scholarship went to Abdelaziz Baraka Sakin, who was born in Sudan in 1963. He is considered one of the most important voices of Arabic-language literature in the European diaspora.

Accompanying the authors during their year in Graz which is correspondingly time-consuming and has been carried out by the team of Kulturvermittlung Steiermark in agreement and coordination with the Cultural Office Graz for around 25 years.

The following link leads to the call for applications on the website of the City of Graz, which contains all information (D/Engl).

http://www.kultur.graz.at/kulturamt/33  
http://static.kulturserver-graz.at/kultur/pdfs/guidelines_stadtschreiber_2021.pdf

"ABWÄRTS" Nr. 46/47 "Det në akuarium / Das Meer im Aquarium

Revista e njohur gjermane "ABWÄRTS", në Nr. 46/47 të saj ka botuar esenë e Arian Lekës "Det në akuarium" ("Das Meer im Aquarium"), publikuar nga BasisDruck Verlag. Teksti në gjuhën gjermane  u përkthye në gjermanisht nga Zuzana Finger, shoqëruar nga shënimi redaksional i  "...edhe pse të pajisur me fuqi dhe dije, ne jemi ende të verbër dhe të pafuqishëm". 

Eseja është zgjedhur nga libri "Hartë memece për të mbyturit". Më herët kjo revistë ka botuar edhe tekste të tjerë nga Arian Leka, si në Nr. 3, të vitit 2021, ku u botuan "Piraten und Private" dhe "Baracke II, Die Küste von Lampedusa". Ndërkohë, revista të tjera në gjuhën gjermane, si «Stadtgelichter»,  «Herzattacke», «die Horen» «Lichtungen», «Lettre International» etj., kanë botuar ndër vite krjimtarinë e Arian Lekës.

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