Completed in 1980 but published here for the first time, My Prizes is an accounting - prize by prize, blow by blow - of the background and circumstances of reception of nine literary prizes that Thomas Bernhard was awarded between 1963 and 1980, followed by some of the speeches he delivered on those occasions - each of which was also the occasion for scandal or worse. The result is a portrait of the artist as prizewinner and prize farceur: sardonic, laconic, biting-the-hand, relishing both the world and himself with bitter amusement. 'Thank goodness for Thomas Bernhard, the most truthful, the funniest and the most musical of writers since Marcel Proust.' Gabriel Josipovici
- ISBN10 0307272877
- ISBN13 9780307272874
- Publish Date 23 December 2010 (first published 1 January 2010)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 16 June 2014
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Alfred A. Knopf
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 129
- Language English