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Turin, Italy, 20 May 2023. The German writer, poet and translator Esther Kinsky was among the guests of the 2023 Turin International Book Fair, where she presented her novel “Rombo”, nominated for with the italian publisher Iperborea for the 2023 European Strega Prize. Esther Kinsky is one of the highest and most original voices on the German literary scene, nominated several times for the Deutscher Buchpreis and awarded the most prestigious awards, such as the Leipzig Fair Prize, the Paul Celan Prize, the Adelbert von Chamisso Prize. Her work stands out for her investigation of the human experience of places, memory and remembrance. She currently spends long periods of the year in Fagagna, a village in Friuli, a region to which she is particularly attached and which inspired her to write "Rombo", where she recalls through seven inhabitants of a valley in the extreme north-east of the region, the days of the violent earthquake that struck Friuli on 6 May 1976. (KEYSTONE/OPALE.PHOTO/©Isabella De Maddalena/opale.photo)