This year, author Emma Braslavsky has been awarded the Gotha Library Scholarship to research her next book "Gummi". It is awarded by the Cultural Foundation of the Free State of Thuringia, the Friends of the Gotha Research Library e.V., the Gotha Research Centre and the Literary Society of Thuringia. With the research grant, the co-operation partners would like to give national and international authors the opportunity to come to Gotha once a year for their literary projects and to work with the holdings of the Gotha Research Library.