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Katerina Poladjan
Katerina Poladjan was born in Moscow, grew up in Rome and Vienna and now lives in Germany. A playwright and essayist, her prose debut »In einer Nacht, woanders (One Night, Elsewhere) was followed by »Vielleicht Marseille« (Maybe Marseille), and she also co-wrote the literary travelogue »Hinter Sibirien« (Beyond Siberia) with Henning Fritsch. She has been nominated for both the Alfred Döblin Prize and the European Prize for Literature and participated in the 2015 Festival of German-Language Literature in Klagenfurt. For »Hier sind Löwen« (Here be Lions) she received grants from the German Literature Fund, the Berlin Senate and the Tarabya Cultural Academy in Istanbul. Upheaval was shortlisted for the Leipzig Book Fair Prize 2022. In 2025, Katerina Poladjan received the Grand Prize of the German Literature Fund.
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Goldstrand (Golden Sands)
S. Fischer
A run-down villa in Rome, a mysterious dottoressa, a film director on a couch narrating the story of his life: in her new novel "Golden Sands" Katerina Poladjan pieces together fragments of old Europe to create a cheerful yet melancholic picture of the present day.
In the 1950s, a holiday resort is built on the Bulgarian Black Sea coast: Golden Sands, planned as a shining vision, a place in the sun for everyone. Eli is conceived on the construction site. Sixty years later, he has long since celebrated his greatest successes as a film director and is lying on his analyst's couch in Rome. He speculates and fabricates his family history, which begins in Odessa in the early 1920s, leads from there via Constantinople and Varna in Bulgaria to Rome, and then on to Oranienburg near Berlin. What to do with the unfulfilled promises of the past?
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