Swiss writer wins European Prize for Political Culture
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Swiss writer wins European Prize for Political Culture
On Saturday, the Hans Ringier Foundation awarded the 91-year-old Zurich writer Adolf Muschg the European Prize for Political Culture. This is the first time the €50,000 prize was awarded to a Swiss national.
“With Adolf Muschg, perhaps the last poet rooted in the era of Max Frisch and Friedrich Dürrenmatt, a Swiss citizen is being recognized for the first time — someone who has repeatedly reminded our country of its lived reality at the heart of Europe,” said Frank A. Meyer, president of the Hans Ringier Foundation, in Saturday’s press release.
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Previous winners include politicians such as Alexei Navalny, Jean-Claude Juncker, Jean-Claude Trichet, Hans-Dietrich Genscher, Wolfgang Schäuble and Mario Draghi, as well as intellectuals such as philosophers Jürgen Habermas and Peter Sloterdijk and historian Heinrich August Winkler.
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