The writer Clemens Meyer (47) is furious with the jury after receiving the German Book Prize in Frankfurt. "I shouted that it was a disgrace for literature that my book didn't win the prize," he said in an interview with the magazine "Der Spiegel", describing his reaction at the award ceremony.
Meyer had left the ceremony on Monday when it was announced that it was not his work that had won the prestigious award, but Monika Hefter's book "Hey guten Morgen, wie geht es dir?". As the author told Der Spiegel, he wanted to continue writing literature, but he was done with the German Book Prize: "I say: never again. This nervous tension is too much for me."
