The Adelbert von Chamisso Prize (

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''Adelbert-von-Chamisso-Preis'') was a German literary award established in 1985, given to a work whose author's mother tongue is not German, as was the case for

Adelbert von Chamisso Adelbert von Chamisso (; 30 January 178121 August 1838) was a German poet and botanist, author of ''Peter Schlemihl'', a famous story about a man who sold his shadow. He was commonly known in French as Adelbert de Chamisso (or Chamissot) de Bonc ...

. It was offered by the Robert Bosch Stiftung. In addition to the main prize with a prize money of 15,000 €, one or more promotional prizes ("Förderpreise") with a prize money of 7,000 € and sometimes an honorary award ("Ehrengabe") were given. The prize was created by Harald Weinrich. In 2016, the Robert Bosch Stiftung announced that the prize would be discontinued after the final 2017 award, saying that it had now fulfilled its original objective.

Winners

The list shows the main prize, the promotional prizes ("PP"), and the honorary awards. * 1985 –

Aras Ören Aras Ören is a writer of Turkish origin, currently living in Germany. He was born in November 1939 in Istanbul, and moved to Berlin in 1969. He was editor of the SFB and head of the Turkish editorial team of Radio Multikulti of the RBB. In 1981 ...

; PP: Rafik Schami * 1986 – Ota Filip * 1987 – Franco Biondi and

Gino Chiellino Carmine Gino Chiellino (born in 1946 in Carlopoli, Italy) is an intercultural literary scholar, writer, editor and translator. He traveled to Germany for the first time in 1969 to conduct research for his university thesis. After studying Italian ...

* 1988 – Elazar Benyoëtz; PP:

Zafer Şenocak Zafer Şenocak (/zæˈfɑɹ ˈʃɛnoʊʤək/ born May 25, 1961) is a German writer well known for his poems, essays, and books. Born in Ankara, he has lived in Germany since 1970 and in Berlin since 1989. Life Şenocak was born on May 25, 1961 ...

* 1989 – Yüksel Pazarkaya; PP: Zehra Çırak * 1990 –

Cyrus Atabay Cyrus Atabay (6 September 1929 – 26 January 1996) was a Persian-German poet. He mostly wrote in German and also translated works of Persian literature into German. Atabay was decorated on numerous occasions for his literary efforts, including t ...

; PP: Alev Tekinay * 1991 –

Libuše Moníková Libuše Moníková (30 August 1945 in Prague – 12 January 1998 in Berlin) was a Czech writer, publishing in the German language. In 1968, following the Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia, she left to Western Germany. Awards * 1987: Alfred D ...

; PP: SAID * 1992 –

Adel Karasholi Adel Karasholi (Arabic: عادل قرشولي. born October 15, 1936) is a German and Arabic writer. Life Already a published poet in his youth, he founded a literary magazine in Damascus which was banned by the Syrian government. He then began w ...

and

Galsan Tschinag Galsan Tschinag (, mn, Чинаагийн Галсан, translit=Qinaagiin Galsan, , , born Irgit Şınıkay oğlu Çuruk-Uvaa ( tyv, Иргит Шыныкай оглу Чурук-Уваа, ), 26 December 1944 in Bayan-Ölgii Province, Mongolia) ...

* 1993 – Rafik Schami; PP: Ismet Elci * 1994 –

Dante Andrea Franzetti Dante Alighieri (; – 14 September 1321), probably baptized Durante di Alighiero degli Alighieri and often referred to as Dante (, ), was an Italian people, Italian Italian poetry, poet, writer and philosopher. His ''Divine Comedy'', origin ...

; PP:

Dragica Rajcić Dragica (Cyrillic The Cyrillic script ( ), Slavonic script or the Slavic script, is a writing system used for various languages across Eurasia. It is the designated national script in various Slavic, Turkic, Mongolic, Uralic, Caucasian and ...

* 1995 –

György Dalos György Dalos (born 23 September 1943) is a Hungarian Jewish writer and historian. He is best known for his novel ''1985'', and ''The Guest from the Future: Anna Akhmatova and Isaiah Berlin''. Life Dalos was born in Budapest and spent his child ...

; PP:

László Csiba László () is a Hungarian male given name and surname after the King-Knight Saint Ladislaus I of Hungary (1077–1095). It derives from Ladislav, a variant of Vladislav. Other versions are Lessl or Laszly. The name has a history of being frequen ...

* 1996 –

Yoko Tawada Yōko Tawada (多和田葉子 ''Tawada Yōko'', born March 23, 1960) is a Japanese writer currently living in Berlin, Germany. She writes in both Japanese and German. Tawada has won numerous literary awards, including the Akutagawa Prize, the Tan ...

; PP:

Marijan Nakić Marijan is a male Croatian first name. The Macedonian version of this name is Marjan. Marijan is also a last name found in Croatia. People named Marijan *Marijan Beneš – Croatian boxer * Marijan Brkić Brk – Croatian musician * Marijan ...

* 1997 –

Güney Dal Güney Dal (born 1944, in Çanakkale) is a Turkish-German writer. He has worked as journalist for the radio and television service Sender Freies Berlin Sender Freies Berlin (; abbreviated SFB ; ) was the ARD public radio and television serv ...

and José F. A. Oliver; honorary award:

Jiří Gruša Jiří Gruša (10 November 1938, in Pardubice – 28 October 2011, in Bad Oeynhausen) was a Czech poet, novelist, translator, diplomat and politician.Natascha Wodin Natascha Wodin (born 8 December 1945) is a German writer of Ukrainian origin. She was born in Fürth, Bavaria in 1945 to parents who had been forced labourers under the Nazi regime. She grew up in a camp for displaced persons. Following her mother ...

; PP: Abdellatif Belfellah * 1999 – Emine Sevgi Özdamar; PP: Selim Özdogan * 2000 – Ilija Marinow Trojanow; PP:

Terézia Mora Terézia Mora (; born 5 February 1971) is a Hungarian writer, screenwriter and translator. Early life and education Terézia Mora was born in Sopron, Hungary, to a family with German roots and grew up bilingual. She moved to Germany after th ...

and Aglaja Veteranyi * 2001 – Zehra Çırak; PP: Radek Knapp and Vladimir Vertlib; honorary award:

Imre Kertész Imre Kertész (; 9 November 192931 March 2016) was a Hungarian author and recipient of the 2002 Nobel Prize in Literature, "for writing that upholds the fragile experience of the individual against the barbaric arbitrariness of history". He was ...

* 2002 – SAID; PP: Francesco Micieli and Catalin Dorian Florescu; honorary award: Harald Weinrich * 2003 – Ilma Rakusa; PP: Hussain al-Mozany and Marica Bodrozic * 2004 – Asfa-Wossen Asserate and

Zsuzsa Bánk Zsuzsa Bánk (born 24 October 1965, in Frankfurt am Main) is a German writer. Her parents moved to Germany after the Hungarian revolution of 1956 and she studied journalism, political science, and literature at the Johannes Gutenberg University M ...

; PP: Yadé Kara * 2005 – Feridun Zaimoğlu; PP: Dimitré Dinev * 2006 –

Zsuzsanna Gahse Zsuzsanna Gahse ( Vajda; born 27 June 1946) is a Hungarian-born German-language writer and translator who lives in Switzerland. Life and works Gahse is the daughter of Hungarian parents and Hungarian is her mother tongue. Her family fled to t ...

; PP: Sudabeh Mohafez and

Eleonora Hummel Eleanor () is a feminine given name, originally from an Old French adaptation of the Old Provençal name ''Aliénor''. It is the name of a number of women of royalty and nobility in western Europe during the High Middle Ages. The name was introd ...

* 2007 –

Magdalena Sadlon Magdalena may refer to: * Magdalena (given name), a given name derived from Mary Magdalene (including a list of people with the name) Entertainment * Magdalena (comics), an American comic book superheroine * ''Magdalena'' (film), a 1920 Czechos ...

; PP: Que Du Luu and

Luo Lingyuan Luo may refer to: Luo peoples and languages *Luo peoples, an ethno-linguistic group of eastern and central Africa **Luo people of Kenya and Tanzania or Joluo, an ethnic group in western Kenya, eastern Uganda, and northern Tanzania. *** Luoland, th ...

* 2008 –

Saša Stanišić Saša Stanišić ( sr-cyr, Саша Станишић; born 7 March 1978) is a Bosnian-German writer. He was born in Višegrad, Bosnia and Herzegovina as the son of a Bosniak mother and a Serbian father. In the spring of 1992, he fled alongside hi ...

; PP: Michael Stavarič and Léda Forgó * 2009 –

Artur Becker Artur Becker (12 May 1905, Remscheid – 16 May 1938, Burgos) was a German communist and functionary of the Young Communist League of Germany (KJVD), as well as a participant in the Spanish Civil War. Biography Born into a working-class famil ...

; PP: María Cecilia Barbetta and Tzveta Sofronieva * 2010 –

; PP: Abbas Khider and

Nino Haratischwili Nino Haratischwili ( ka, ნინო ხარატიშვილი; born 8 June 1983) is a Georgia born German novelist, playwright, and theater director. She has received numerous awards, including the Adelbert von Chamisso Prize, the Kra ...

* 2011 – Jean Krier; PP:

Olga Martynova Olga Martynova (born in 1962 in Dudinka, Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia) is a Russian-German writer. She writes poems in Russian, and prose and essays in German. Olga Martynova grew up in Leningrad where she studied Russian literature and language and ...

and Nicol Ljubić * 2012 – Michael Stavarič; PP: Akos Doma and Ilir Ferra * 2013 – Marjana Gaponenko; PP:

Matthias Nawrat Matthias Nawrat (born 1979 in Opole) is a German writer. Life Matthias Nawrat was born in Opole in Poland. He moved with his family in 1989 to Bamberg. From 2000 to 2007, he studied Biology at Heidelberg and Freiburg im Breisgau. Beginning ...

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Anila Wilms Anila Wilms is an Albanian writer living in Germany. Wilms was born in Tirana and grew up in the Albanian port of Durrës. On the maternal side, she comes from a family of rich and politically influential beys who were expropriated and disempow ...

* 2014 – Ann Cotten; PP: Dana Ranga and Nellja Veramoj * 2015 –

Sherko Fatah Sherko, also ''Şêrko'', is a Kurdish given name for males and may refer to: * Asad Ad-Din Sherko, a Kurdish General of Zengid army and uncle of Saladin * Sherko Bekas Sherko Fayaq Abdullah (; 2 May 1940 – 4 August 2013), was a Kurdish ...

, PP: Olga Grjasnowa and Martin Kordic * 2016 –

Esther Kinsky Esther Kinsky (born 1956 in Engelskirchen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany) is a German literary translator and the author of novels and poetry. Life and works Esther Kinsky grew up in North Rhine-Westphalia and read Slavonic studies at Bonn. Sh ...

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Uljana Wolf Uljana Wolf is a German poet and translator (from English and Polish) known for exploring multilingualism in her work. Wolf works in both Berlin and New York. She teaches German at New York University. Uljana Wolf was born in East Berlin in 1979. ...

* 2017 – Abbas Khider; Barbi Marković and

Senthuran Varatharajah Senthuran Varatharajah is a German writer of Tamil Tamil may refer to: * Tamils, an ethnic group native to India and some other parts of Asia ** Sri Lankan Tamils, Tamil people native to Sri Lanka also called ilankai tamils **Tamil Malaysians, ...

(FP)

References

External links

* German literary awards Adelbert von Chamisso Awards established in 1985 1985 establishments in Germany {{lit-award-stub