Written at the end of the cold war, Magris’s Danube glimpsed a common humanity at a time of imminent danger. Thirty years on, its message is even more powerful The literature of rivers is small but ...

In Claudio Magris' Blameless, a museum of the implements of war and destruction is created to inspire peace. But this conversation is not just about war and peace, it's about love and loss, culture ...

The real adventure of travel is intellectual. Heart-stopping landscapes invite research into their history and culture, and books pile up in one’s library. Rebecca West’s “Black Lamb and Grey Falcon” ...

Austria has awarded its annual state prize for European literature to Italian writer Claudio Magris. Magris, who at 24 wrote “The Hapsburg Myth in Modern Austrian Literature,” received $28,100.

At 72, Italian novelist and Germanist Claudio Magris has many achievements, including critical writings on Kafka and Joseph Roth. One of his most lastingly admired books is a 1991 novel, “Un altro ...

The Danube ‘is an old Taoist master, and along its bank it gives lessons on the great Wheel’ (Getty/iStock) The Balkans shaped the opening and close of our last century, but for poorly prepared ...

Italian writer Claudio Magris has grabbed the top prize at the annual Frankfurt Book Fair for fostering European diversity in his works. The 70-year-old scribe accepted the Peace Prize on Sunday at ...

This story about an asylum inmate who also believes he is a 19th-century adventurer and one-time king of Iceland might just be a work of flawed genius "Curiously enough," wrote Nabokov, "one cannot ...

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