Katerina Poladjan Receives the Leipzig Book Fair Prize

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The prize of the Leipzig Book Fair in the Bellestrik category goes to Katerina Poladjan in 2026 with "Goldstrand". Best non-fiction book is Marie-Janine Calic's "Balkan-Odyssee", best translation Manfred Gmeiner's "Unten leben".

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For her novel "Goldstrand" author Katerina Poladjan travels to Bulgaria - to the holiday resort of her childhood, which has changed greatly through "turbocapitalism". For her "masterful" story about this experience, she now receives the prize of the Leipzig Book Fair.

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Odessa, a Bulgarian Black Sea town and a director in Rome on the couch: Poladjan rushes through Europe – and got the coveted prize for it.

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The writer Katerina Poladjan has been awarded the Belletristik Prize of the Leipzig Book Fair. She receives the prize for her work "Goldstrand" and the other winners have also been announced.

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There are three prizes in it: in spring there are no more literary awards than the prizes of the Leipzig Book Fair for fiction, non-fiction and translations. Now we know who gets them.