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Slavenka Drakulić | Award Winner 2005 |
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Born 1949 in Rijeka (Yugoslavia, today Croatia)
lives in Stockholm (Sweden), Vienna (Austria) and Sovinjak (Croatia)
Slavenka Drakulić receives the award for her work “Keiner war dabei. Kriegsverbrechen auf dem Balkan von Gericht”.
In this, she pursues the agonising question of how neighbours can become murderers. The terrible truths that come to light in the charges brought against the organisers and executors of the wars in former Yugoslavia inspire the author to self-examination of her own generation and their entanglement in the tragedy.
Evil is the absence of empathy – with this insight her book is in the great tradition of the thought-provoking journalism of Emile Zola’s “J’accuse” and Hannah Arendt’s report on the Eichmann trial.
Accolade: Prof h.c. Hans Koschnick, Mayor ret. of the Hanseatic City of Bremen, former European Administrator of the City of Mostar (Germany) Accolade
Slavenka Drakulić: Acceptance speech |
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