The Leipzig Book Fair Prize () is a literary award assigned annually during the
Leipzig Book Fair
The Leipzig Book Fair (german: Leipziger Buchmesse) is the second largest book fair in Germany after the Frankfurt Book Fair. The fair takes place annually over four days at the Leipzig Trade Fairground in the northern part of Leipzig, Saxony. ...
to outstanding newly released literary works in the categories "Fiction", "Non-fiction" and "Translation".
Website of the prize
/ref> The Leipzig Book Fair Prize has been awarded since the Deutscher Bücherpreis
The Deutscher Bücherpreis (English: ''German Book Prize'') was a non-monetary prize for literature which was awarded at the Leipzig Book Fair by the German Publishers and Booksellers Association from 2002 to 2004.
After September 2004, the Assoc ...
was ceased in 2005, and is one of the most important literary awards in Germany.
Leipzig Book Fair Prize
2005
* Fiction: 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 ...
, ''Alle Tage''
* Non-fiction: Rüdiger Safranski
Rüdiger Safranski (born 1 January 1945) is a German philosopher and author.
Life
From 1965 to 1972, Safranski studied philosophy (among others with Theodor W. Adorno), German literature, history and history of art at Goethe University i ...
, ''Schiller oder die Erfindung des Deutschen Idealismus''
* Translation: Thomas Eichhorn, for Les Murray's ''Fredy Neptune''
2006
* Fiction: Ilija Trojanow
Ilija Trojanow (Bulgarian: Илия Троянов, also transliterated as Ilya Troyanov; born 23 August 1965 in Sofia) is a Bulgarian–German writer, translator and publisher.
Life and literary career
Trojanow was born in Sofia, Bulgaria in 1 ...
, ''Der Weltensammler''
* Non-fiction: Franz Schuh, ''Schwere Vorwürfe. Schmutzige Wäsche''
* Translation: Ragni Maria Gschwend, for Antonio Moresco's ''Gli esordi''
2007
* Fiction: Ingo Schulze
Ingo Schulze (born 15 December 1962) is a German writer born in Dresden in former East Germany. He studied classical philology at the University of Jena for five years, and, until German reunification, was an assistant director (dramatic arts ...
, ''Handy''
* Non-fiction: Saul Friedländer
Saul Friedländer (; born October 11, 1932) is a Czech-Jewish-born historian and a professor emeritus of history at UCLA.
Biography
Saul Friedländer was born in Prague to a family of German-speaking Jews. He was raised in France and lived thr ...
, ''Das Dritte Reich und die Juden 2. Die Jahre der Vernichtung 1939–1945'' (in English: '' The Years of Extermination: Nazi Germany and the Jews, 1939-1945'')
* Translation: Svetlana Geier, for Fyodor Dostoyevsky's ''Подросток'' (English: ''The Raw Youth
''The Adolescent'' (russian: Подросток, Podrostok), also translated as ''A Raw Youth'' or ''An Accidental Family'', is a novel by Russian writer Fyodor Dostoevsky, first published in monthly installments in 1875 in the Russian literary ...
'')
2008
* Fiction: Clemens Meyer, ''Die Nacht, die Lichter''
* Non-fiction: Irina Liebmann
Irina Liebmann is a German journalist-author and sinologist of Russo-German provenance. She has won a number of important literary prizes: the most significant of these, probably, was the 2008 Leipzig Book Fair non-fiction Prize, awarded for ...
, ''Wäre es schön? Es wäre schön!''
* Translation: Fritz Vogelgsang, for Joanot Martorell's '' Tirant lo Blanc''
2009
* Fiction: Sibylle Lewitscharoff
Sibylle Lewitscharoff (born 16 April 1954) is a German author. Among her novels are ''Pong'' (1998), ''Apostoloff'' (2009) and ''Blumenberg'' (2011). She has received several German literary awards, including the Georg Büchner Prize in 2013.
E ...
, ''Apostoloff''
* Non-fiction: Herfried Münkler, ''Die Deutschen und ihre Mythen''
* Translation: Eike Schönfeld, for Saul Bellow
Saul Bellow (born Solomon Bellows; 10 July 1915 – 5 April 2005) was a Canadian-born American writer. For his literary work, Bellow was awarded the Pulitzer Prize, the Nobel Prize for Literature, and the National Medal of Arts. He is the only w ...
's '' Humboldt's Gift''
2010
*Fiction: Georg Klein, ''Roman unserer Kindheit''
*Non-fiction: Ulrich Raulff, ''Kreis ohne Meister. Stefan Georges Nachleben''
*Translation: Ulrich Blumenbach, for David Foster Wallace
David Foster Wallace (February 21, 1962 – September 12, 2008) was an American novelist, short story writer, essayist, and university professor of English and creative writing. Wallace is widely known for his 1996 novel '' Infinite Jest'', whi ...
's ''Unendlicher Spaß''
2011
* Fiction: Clemens J. Setz
Clemens J. Setz (born 15 November 1982, in Graz), is an Austrian writer and translator.
He debuted in 2007 with the novel ''Söhne und Planeten''. His second novel, ''Die Frequenzen'', was shortlisted for the German Book Prize. He won the 2011 L ...
, ''Die Liebe zur Zeit des Mahlstädter Kindes''
* Non-fiction: Henning Ritter, ''Notizhefte''
* Translation: Barbara Conrad, for Leo Tolstoy
Count Lev Nikolayevich TolstoyTolstoy pronounced his first name as , which corresponds to the romanization ''Lyov''. () (; russian: link=no, Лев Николаевич Толстой,In Tolstoy's day, his name was written as in pre-refor ...
's ''War and Peace
''War and Peace'' (russian: Война и мир, translit=Voyna i mir; pre-reform Russian: ; ) is a literary work by the Russian author Leo Tolstoy that mixes fictional narrative with chapters on history and philosophy. It was first published ...
''
2012
* Fiction: Wolfgang Herrndorf
Wolfgang Herrndorf (12 June 1965 in Hamburg – 26 August 2013 in Berlin) was a German author, painter, and illustrator.
Life and career
In 2002, his debut novel ''In Plüschgewittern'' was published by Zweitausendeins. Despite the protagonist ...
, ''Sand
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''
* Non-fiction: Jörg Baberowski
Jörg Baberowski (born 24 March 1961 in Radolfzell am Bodensee) is a German historian and Professor of Eastern European History at the Humboldt University of Berlin. He studies the history of the Soviet Union and Stalinist violence. Baberowski e ...
, ''Verbrannte Erde. Stalins Herrschaft der Gewalt''
* Translation: Christina Viragh, for Péter Nádas' '' Parallelgeschichten''
2013
* Fiction: David Wagner, ''Leben''
* Non-fiction: Helmut Böttiger Helmut is a German name. Variants include Hellmut, Helmuth, and Hellmuth.
From old German, the first element deriving from either ''heil'' ("healthy") or ''hiltja'' ("battle"), and the second from ''muot'' ("spirit, mind, mood").
Helmut may refer ...
, ''Die Gruppe 47. Als die deutsche Literatur Geschichte schrieb''
* Translation: Eva Hesse, for Ezra Pound
Ezra Weston Loomis Pound (30 October 1885 – 1 November 1972) was an expatriate American poet and critic, a major figure in the early modernist poetry movement, and a Fascism, fascist collaborator in Italy during World War II. His works ...
's '' The Cantos''
2014
* Fiction: 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 ...
, ''Vor dem Fest''
* Non-fiction: Helmut Lethen, ''Der Schatten des Fotografen''
* Translation: Robin Detje, for William T. Vollmann
William Tanner Vollmann (born July 28, 1959) is an American novelist, journalist, war correspondent, short story writer, and essayist. He won the 2005 National Book Award for Fiction with the novel ''Europe Central''. 's ''Europe Central''
2015
* Fiction: Jan Wagner, ''Regentonnenvariationen''
* Non-fiction: Philipp Ther, ''Die neue Ordnung auf dem alten Kontinent''
* Translation: Mirjam Pressler, for Amos Oz's ''Judas''
2016
* Fiction: Guntram Vesper: ''Frohburg''
* Non-fiction: Jürgen Goldstein: ''Georg Forster. Zwischen Freiheit und Naturgewalt''
* Translation: Brigitte Döbert for Bora Ćosić’s ''Die Tutoren''
2017
* Fiction: 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 ...
: ''Sie kam aus Mariupol''
* Non-fiction: Barbara Stollberg-Rilinger
Barbara Stollberg-Rilinger FBA (born 17 July 1955 in Bergisch Gladbach) is a German historian. She mainly researches the early modern period and has held the chair for early modern history at the University of Münster. Stollberg-Rilinger is o ...
: ''Maria Theresia. Die Kaiserin in ihrer Zeit''
* Translation: Eva Lüdi Kong: a translation of Chinese popular folk tales and legends, ''Journey to the West
''Journey to the West'' () is a Chinese novel published in the 16th century during the Ming dynasty and attributed to Wu Cheng'en. It is regarded as one of the greatest Classic Chinese Novels, and has been described as arguably the most popul ...
''
2018
* Fiction: 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 ...
: ''Hain. Geländeroman''
* Non-fiction: Karl Schlögel: ''Das sowjetische Jahrhundert. Archäologie einer untergegangenen Welt''
* Translation: Sabine Stöhr and Juri Durkot: for Serhij Zhadan’s ''Internat''
2019
* Fiction: Anke Stelling: ''Schäfchen im Trockenen''Gabriela Adamesteanu Gabriela may refer to:
* Gabriela (given name), a Spanish, Portuguese and Romanian feminine given name
* ''Gabriela'' (1942 film), a Czech film
* ''Gabriela'' (1950 film), a German film
* ''Gabriela'' (1983 film), a Brazilian film
* ''Gabriela ...
′s ''Dimineață pierdută'' (German: ''Verlorener Morgen'')
2020
* Fiction: Lutz Seiler: ''Stern 111''Fran Ross
Fran Ross (June 25, 1935 – September 17, 1985) was an African-American author best known for her 1974 novel ''Oreo''. She briefly wrote comedy for Richard Pryor.
Early childhood
Born on June 25, 1935, in Philadelphia, she was the eldest dau ...
2021
* Fiction: Iris Hanika
Iris Hanika (born 1962) is a German writer. She was born in Würzburg, grew up in Bad Königshofen and has lived in Berlin since 1979, where she studied Universal and Comparative Literature at the FU Berlin. She was a regular contributor to Germ ...
: ''Echos Kammern''
References
External links
Leipzig Book Fair Prize
official website
{{German literary awards
German non-fiction literary awards
German-language literary awards
Awards established in 2005
Fiction awards
Translation awards
Events in Leipzig