Nils Mohl has been awarded the James Krüss Prize for International Children’s and Young Adult Literature for his profound humour and high degree of experimentation. The prize is endowed with 8,000 Euros.
The Jury:
“Nils Mohl, born in Hamburg in 1971, tells of the difficulties and chaos of growing up ‘in an inimitable way’ in many of his novels for young readers. From the award-winning and filmed novel Es war einmal Indianerland (Once Upon a Time in Indian Country), published in 2011, to the current young adult book Henny und Ponger (2022) – Nils Mohl writes ‘authentically and captivatingly, often in a laconic tone, with humour and a keen sense of the existential impact of adolescence. His YA-literary road trips are sophisticated and complexly composed.’ Nils Mohl develops them from a well thought-out structure, works with flashbacks and flashforwards, film and pop culture references and finds ‘an unmistakable, often melancholic sound that is unrivalled in German-language children’s and young adult literature’, according to the jury. However, Mohl not only works consistently on his youth literature, which he now also enriches with fantastic elements, but has also been expanding his narrative and formal repertoire in a remarkable way for years.”
These books by Nils Mohl are represented by mundt agency:
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