With her young adult novel "Wir holen uns die Nacht zurück" (We're taking back the night), Berlin-based author Nora Hoch has won this year's Book Summer Readers' Prize in Saxony. She had clearly prevailed among ten nominees, announced the Ministry of Culture and the Library Association of Saxony as promoters on Wednesday in Dresden. The undotierte honor is connected with a reading journey and is to be lent to the book summer conclusion on 16 October in the city library Pirna (Saxon Switzerland).
With the book summer for eleven to 16-year-olds is promoted since 2012 in each case in the summer vacations reading in public libraries. The ministry made available for it according to own data this time approximately 120,000 euro. Since 2018, children and young people have also been able to choose their favorites. This year's motto was "Never again boredom in the summer vacations".
Hoch, born in 1983 in Bochum (North Rhine-Westphalia), works as a dramaturge and theater educator in Berlin. She scored with her 2022 story about two girls who grow up in the same house but come from different worlds. Ilvy and Kaja discover boys, parties and drugs together. When one threatens to slip away, the other tries to protect her without losing herself.
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