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Literary Prize: Reinhard Jirgl Wins Prestigious Georg Buechner

First Posted: 10/26/10 02:11 PM ET Updated: 05/25/11 07:05 PM ET

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German author Reinhard Jirgl won Germany's most coveted literary award, the Georg Buechner Prize, for his life's work this weekend, the German Academy for Language and Literature said in a statement.

The 57-year-old author is most famous for his novels "Die Unvollendeten" ("The Unfinished") about a German family expelled from its home in 1945, and "Die Stille" ("Calm"), which accompanies two German families through the 20th century as they experience war, inflation and expulsion.

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