Author | Maja Haderlap |
---|---|
Original title | Engel des Vergessens |
Translators | Tess Lewis |
Country | Germany |
Genre | Historical fiction |
Angel of Oblivion ( German: Engel des Vergessens, Slovene: Angel pozabe) is a 2011 autobiographical novel written by bilingual Slovenian- German Austrian writer Maja Haderlap. The story revolves around the life of a Carinthian Slovene peasant family that had been badly struck by the National Socialist regime in World War II. The novel highlights Austria's only militarily organised resistance against National Socialism - the Carinthian minority of Carinthian Slovenes as one of the non-Jewish Holocaust's victims. [1]
In 2016, the German Book Office in New York City chose Angel of Oblivion as its August Pick of the Month. [2]
Year | Award | Result | Ref. |
---|---|---|---|
2011 | Ingeborg Bachmann Prize [a] | Winner | [3] [4] |
2017 | BTBA Best Translated Book Award for Fiction | Longlist | [5] |
2017 | Helen and Kurt Wolff Translator's Prize | [5] | |
2017 | PEN Translation Prize for Tess Lewis | Winner | [6] [7] |
2018 | Max Frisch Prize | Winner | |
2015 | Austrian Cultural Forum New York Translation Prize | Winner | [4] |