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Issue  No  2  •  1997

Inhospitable

Streets

A Rhyming Diary

Write Me from Iowa

Antiphonal Anthologies

Truth Before
Reconciliation

Reading Faces

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•  ISSUE NUMBER TWO*  1 9 9 7*
International
Prize Contest

^ ^^ 

ETTRE International, Berlin and Weimar 1999 -
European City of Culture GmbH in cooperation
with Goethe Institute are soliciting responses  from

A a global public in essay form to the underlisted
• ^ ^ • " ^™  Prize Question. The prize is open to all persons,
anywhere in the world. They are invited to respond to the
Prize Question in a creative way and from whatever happens
to be their own cultural perspective and background. Essayists
are expected to provide the most convincing and conclusive
solution  possible  in a spirit of open competition. On the
threshold of a new millennium, this international competition
of minds hopes to become a symbols of a creative  and coopera-
tive global society for the 21st century.

The Prize Question:
Liberating the Future from the past?
Liberating the past from  the Future?

Prizes

Authors of essays rated first, second and third will be

awarded prizes of DM50,000, DM30,000 and DM20,000
respectively. In addition, these authors will be invited to the
official  award presentation at Weimar, scheduled to take place
late in 1999.

Prize-winners, as well as authors of other outstanding

contributions, will receive a grant or stipend covering several
months of study in Germany. Award-winning essays, along
with a choice of entries pre-selected for the final Jury, will be
published in the different  national editions of Lettre Interna-
tional  and in other literary magazines.

A book containing a selection of those essays presented to

the Final Jury will also be published in German and other
languages.

Conditions of Participation

Anyone may participate, except for Contest jurors and staff

of Lettre International and Weimar 1999 - European City of
Culture GmbH. Essays may be submitted in any of the six
official UN languages, i.e. Arabic, Chinese, English, French,
Russian  and Spanish, as well as in German, the Contest
organisers host language. Essays may not be submitted which,
prior to the official presentation of awards, have been either
previously published or offered to third parties for publication,
or which have been entered in any other competition. Essays
should be sent to the International Essay Prize Contest's
Secretariat in two typescript copies or via e-mail no later than
November 30, 1998. Date as postmark or e-mail protocol.
Manuscripts cannot be returned. Authors of award-winning
essays confer the unrestricted right of reproduction - also
transferable to third parties - to the Contest organisers. This
includes the right of translation and dissemination of essays in
any way or form, either in part or in full, and in all language.
Authors whose essays have been presented to the Final Jury,
but have not been awarded a prize, likewise confer the right of
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