Und Federn überall

Péter Horváth Literature Prize
Award ceremony, reading, talk, reception with Nava Ebrahimi
Introduction and award ceremony: Achim Dannecker

Anyone looking for work cannot avoid the huge Möllring poultry slaughterhouse on the outskirts of a small town in Emsland. The novel "And Feathers Everywhere" by Nava Ebrahimi follows six people from this town, all of whom are connected to the business in their own way. Ebrahimi has been awarded this year's Péter Horváth Literature Prize by the Wirtschaftsclub im Literaturhaus for her novel - an annual prize that honors contemporary literature about work and economic relationships.
economic contexts. "In Möllring's work, the most diverse working and dependency relationships become visible around the metabolic cycle of the global consumption of white meat: economic, political, historical, social, emotional. And how the literary centrifugal force liberates a vital panorama of contemporary life from the death zone of a
panorama of contemporary life is a beautiful counter-project to capitalist optimization processes," said Stefan Kister in his jury statement. Nava Ebrahimi, born in Tehran in 1978, received the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize in 2021. She has worked as an editor for the Financial Times Deutschland, among others. She has been a columnist for the Süddeutsche Zeitung since 2025. Nava Ebrahimi lives in Graz.
An event organized by the Wirtschaftsclub im Literaturhaus e.V.