Swiss Literary Award 2009 (Satis Shroff)

MEHR MEER

A translator and essayist

Born in 1946 in Slovakia,

Grew up in Switzerland,

Living in Zürich,

Won the Swiss Buch.09 award

And 50,000 Swiss Franks.

The jury was delighted

With her ´Mehr Meer,´

Written with a pen

Dipped in beauty

That fills the world

With poetry.

With her More Seas,

She sailed past Peter Stamm

With his novel Seven Years,

Shortlisted contemporaries:

Eleonore Frey, Jürg Laederach,

Angelika Overath and Urs Widmer.

A tale about memories

Of a daughter,

Of Hungarian

And Slovenian descent,

With sojourns in Budapest,

Ljublijana, Triest, Zürich,

Leningrad and Paris.

The poetess of this passage

Of memories

Is Ilma Rakussa,

A sincere lady with a haircut,

Akin to Prince Valiant,

With a soft voice.

The atmosphere was sticky,

The visitors stiff,

Perspiring in their garments

At the Basler Erlenmatten Street.

What a pleasant surprise:

Buch.09 is going

Buch Basel again.

Satis Shroff

Satis Shroff teaches Creative Writing in Freiburg and is the published author of three books on www.Lulu.com: Im Schatten des Himalaya (book of poems in German), Through Nepalese Eyes (travelogue), Katmandu, Katmandu (poetry and prose anthology by Nepalese authors, edited by Satis Shroff). His lyrical works have been published in literary poetry sites: Slow Trains, International Zeitschrift, World Poetry Society (WPS), New Writing North, Muses Review, The Megaphone, Pen Himalaya, Interpoetry. Satis Shroff is a member of "Writers of Peace", poets, essayists, novelists (PEN), World Poetry Society (WPS) and The Asian Writer.

Satis Shroff is a poet and writer based in Freiburg (poems, fiction, non-fiction) who also writes on ecological, ethno-medical, culture-ethnological themes. He has studied Zoology and Botany in Nepal, Medicine and Social Sciences in Germany and Creative Writing in Freiburg and the United Kingdom. He describes himself as a mediator between western and eastern cultures and sees his future as a writer and poet. Since literature is one of the most important means of cross-cultural learning, he is dedicated to promoting and creating awareness for Creative Writing and transcultural togetherness in his writings, and in preserving an attitude of Miteinander in this world. He lectures in Basle (Switzerland) and in Germany at the Akademie für medizinische Berufe (University Klinikum Freiburg) Satis Shroff was awarded the German Academic Exchange Prize.

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