Angel of Oblivion | |
Author: | Maja Haderlap |
Country: | Germany |
Genre: | Historical fiction |
Translators: | Tess Lewis |
Title Orig: | Engel des Vergessens |
Angel of Oblivion (German: Engel des Vergessens, Slovenian: 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]
2011 | Ingeborg Bachmann Prize | Winner | [3] [4] | |
2017 | BTBA Best Translated Book Award for Fiction | Longlist | [5] | |
2017 | Helen and Kurt Wolff Translator's Prize | |||
2017 | PEN Translation Prize for Tess Lewis | Winner | [6] [7] | |
2018 | Max Frisch Prize | Winner | ||
2015 | Austrian Cultural Forum New York Translation Prize | Winner |