The Czech-German author Jan Factor was honored with the Wilhelm Raabe Literature Prize in Braunschweig on Sunday. The 71-year-old accepted the award, which is endowed with 30,000 euros, in the Small House of the State Theater. The city of Braunschweig had previously announced that the writer would receive the prize for his novel "Idiot".

With the work (Kiepenheuer

Full of puns, atmospheric descriptions and grotesque scenes, he offers an unusual bohemian look at the often-told lifeworld of East Berlin bohemia and the late GDR. "A work of astonishing power was created".

The Braunschweig award is presented annually by Deutschlandfunk and the city for a narrative work written in German. The award commemorates the storyteller Wilhelm Raabe, who died in Braunschweig in 1910 and is one of the most important representatives of poetic realism.

Factor was also on the shortlist with "Trottel", i.e. in the final round, for the German Book Prize, which Kim de l'Horizon was awarded in October for the novel "Blutbuch".