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Author Uwe Teller has won the German Book Prize, an annual, €25,000 award for German-speaking novels, the judges announced in Frankfurt. He gained the award for The Tower, a monumental work describing the collapse of communist East Germany two decades ago.
Teller, 39, a medical doctor, was born in the eastern city of Dresden and jailed in 1989 for "political unreliability" just before communism ended.
The prize is awarded by the German Book Trade Federation every year, two days before the start of the Frankfurt Book Fair, the world's premier book publishing event.
The other novels and authors on the shortlist were Adam and Evelyn (Ingo Schulze), Abolition of Species (Dietmar Dath), Dark Ship (Sherko Fatah), Swim Home (Rolf Lappert) and Two Meet (Iris Hanika).