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 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 ...

Prague, June 15 (CTK) – Italian writer, translator, German studies scholar and essayist Claudio Magris will be the laureate of the Franz Kafka Prize this year, an international jury has decided in ...

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 ...

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 ...

The history of Trieste can be read as the record of ascendancy in Middle Europe. The Romans founded the city as they expanded their empire in the second century BC. When Rome collapsed in the fifth ...

Danube by Claudio Magris (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $17). Travel at its most serious creates a bibliography. Exquisite landscapes lead you to books about their history, which lead you to other books.

The Balkans shaped the opening and close of our last century, but for poorly prepared Westerners they remain, even now, a distant cauldron into which we like to toss our prejudices, ignorance and ...