"The Green War" nominated for the Leipzig Book Fair Prize

The Green War by Simone Schlindwein has been nominated for the Leipzig Book Fair Prize in the non-fiction category. The Leipzig Book Fair Prize has been honouring outstanding new German-language publications in the categories of fiction, non-fiction/essay and translation since 2005.

The book will be published on 28 March 2023

"What weighs more, biodiversity or human rights? And how could the two be thought together if local knowledge were taken into account? These are the questions Simone Schlindwein's book focuses on. Her extensive research on national parks in Congo and Uganda leads to uncomfortable insights. She addresses the Germans' glorified image of Africa with just as much commitment and knowledge as she does the questionable funding policies of Western countries." (Jury statement)


Simone Schlindwein, born in 1980, has lived in Uganda since 2008 and is the daily newspaper's (taz) correspondent for the Great Lakes region: DR Congo, Rwanda, Burundi, Uganda, Central African Republic, South Sudan. From 2006 to 2008 she was, among other things, Moscow correspondent for Der Spiegel. She was awarded the journalism prize The long breath and the Otto Brenner Prize for her work. Most recently, she published the books Dictators as Doormen of Europe (with Christian Jakob) and Crime Scene Congo (with Dominic Johnson and Bianca Schmolze).