Robert Menasse Wins the Bruno Kreisky Award for the Political Book 2022

More+More+ ♦ Published: January 2, 2023; 22:38 ♦ (Vindobona)

The Bruno Kreisky Award for the Political Book 2022 will reward several persons and organizations for their outstanding work in the fields of equality, democracy, solidarity and tolerance. Austrian author Robert Menasse is honored this year for the political book.

Austrian Author Robert Menasse Has Won the Bruno Kreisky Award for the Political Book / Picture: © Marko Lipus, CC BY 2.0 , via Wikimedia Commons

The Bruno Kreisky Award for the Political Book 2022 goes to Robert Menasse for the novel “Die Erweiterung”. According to the jury, the work, the sequel to Menasse's EU bestseller "Die Hauptstadt", combines expertise, irony, and a strong European heart. Menasse follows his sister Eva with the award, who was honored last year for "Dunkelblum". Salman Rushdie, however, received the…