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The 2007 Award

All for Love by Dan Jacobson

 

 

Nominated by:

  • The Free State Provincial Library Service, Bloemfontein, South Africa

 

Publisher of Nominated Edition
Hamish Hamilton Ltd. ISBN 0241142733

 

the complete A-Z listing of nominated authors
ABOUT THE BOOK
She was a princess, daughter of perhaps the most hated king in Europe. He was just a lowly hussar. Their love affair in turn-of-the-century Vienna was to scandalize a continent.
The story of Princess Louise of Belgium and Geza Mattachich, stepson of a minor Croatian count, began with no more than an exchanged glance in a park. Yet the princess and her soldier, divided by wealth and status, pursued their devotion to one another through scandal, ruin, madness and imprisonment.
Dan Jacobson's brilliant imagining of this forgotten episode of the Hapsburg court brings to life one of the century's great love stories.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Dan Jacobson was born in South Africa. He is the author of novels, collections of short stories, critical works and volumes of travel-writing and autobiography, including the acclaimed Heshel's Kingdom. His short stories, reviews and critical essays have appeared in a variety of journals in Britain and the United States. His books have won him several major literary prizes, including the John Llewellyn Rhys Award, the Somerset Maugham Award, the H.H.Wingate Award and the J.R.Ackerley Prize for Autobiography.
Dan Jacobson lives and writes in London. He retired a few years ago from a professorship in English Literature at University College London.


 

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