We have the honor to announce that Katerina Gordeeva's Take My Grief Away has been awarded the prestigious Geschwister-Scholl Preis:
The Geschwister Scholl Prize has been awarded by the German Publishers and Booksellers Association - Bavarian Regional Association and the City of Munich since 1980. The purpose and aim of the Geschwister Scholl Prize is to annually honor a recent book that, as the statutes state, "demonstrates intellectual independence and is capable of promoting civil freedom, moral, intellectual and aesthetic courage and of giving important impulses to responsible contemporary awareness." Prize winners in recent years have included David van Reybrouck, Andrej Kurkow, Joe Sacco, Dina Nayeri, Ahmet Altan, Götz Aly, Achille Mbembe, Glenn Greenwald, Otto Dov Kulka, Liao Yiwu, Joachim Gauck, Roberto Saviano, David Grossman and Anna Politkovskaja. Read more: https://geschwister-scholl-preis.de/
The book was published in Germany by Droemer Knaur in 2024.
We are extremely impressed by Katerina Gordeeva's work as a war and crisis reporter. <...> Gordeeva’s tireless commitment to objective journalism was recognized with the Anna Politkovskaya Award. Like the members of the Russian MEMORIAL association, Gordeeva was given the status of "foreign agent", which means that she can expect to be prosecuted at any time. This commitment against an autocratic system makes her engagement all the more remarkable and important. - Margit Ketterle, Editor at Large at Verlagsgruppe Droemer Knaur; Denise Schweida, Editor at Verlagsgruppe Droemer Knaur
The English-language edition was published by W H Allen/Random House in June, 2024 and shortlisted for 2024 Moore Prize for Human Rights Writing.
"Take My Grief Away is an unflinching record of the cost of war that centres the human voice and experience,"[Katerina’s] journalistic skill and ability to bring out the voice of her interviewees make for an incredibly powerful, often harrowing, read. Take My Grief Away shows what war does to us." - commissioning editor Suzanne Connelly, Ebury/Random House.
The translation rights have been sold to 14 territories to date.
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