Fiston Mwanza Mujila and translators Katharina Meyer and Lena Müller are the winners of the ninth Internationaler Literaturpreis for translated contemporary literatures for the German translation of Tram 83.

Mujila receives a prize of €20,000, Katharina Meyer and Lena Müller receive €15,000.

Jury comments:

Tram 83 is the rhapsodic novel of 36-year-old Congolese writer Fiston Mwanza Mujila, who lives and works in Graz. It is a radical report on post-colonial African life in a town built over an immense store of very valuable natural resources. Fiston Mwanza Mujila chants, roars, whispers sentences about everyday life in a male society dominated by violence with a radical furor, almost in passing narrating the tale of a crook and of the unlikely salvation of a doomed poet. The translators Katharina Meyer and Lena Müller have found a stirring language for the text that pushes towards the performative.

Mujila won the 2015 Etisalat Prize for Literature for Tram 83, which was also longlisted for the Man Booker International Prize and awarded the Grand Prix of Literary Associations (Belles-Lettres Category).

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