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Leipzig Book Award For European Understanding
The City of Leipzig awards the Leipzig Book Award for European Understanding () which has been given since 1994. The award is endowed with prize money of 20,000 Euro and is presented every year during the official opening of Leipzig Book Fair. Recipients Source: * 1994 Ryszard Kapuściński (Poland) * 1994 Eckhard Thiele (Germany) * 1995 Péter Nádas (Hungary) * 1995 Svetlana Geier (Germany) * 1996 Aleksandar Tišma (Serbia) * 1996 Fritz Mierau (Germany) * 1997 Imre Kertész (Hungary) * 1997 Antonín J. Liehm (Czech Republic) * 1998 Svetlana Alexievich (Belarus) * 1998 Ilma Rakusa (Switzerland) * 1998 Andreas Tretner (Germany) * 1999 Eric Hobsbawm (United Kingdom) * 1999 Nenad Popović (Serbia) * 2000 Hanna Krall (Poland) * 2000 Peter Urban (translator), Peter Urban (Germany) * 2001 Claudio Magris (Italy) * 2001 Norbert Randow (Germany) * 2002 Bora Ćosić (Serbia) * 2002 Ludvík Kundera (Czech Republic) * 2003 Hugo Claus (Belgium) * 2003 Barbara Antkowiak (Germany) * 2004 Dževa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leipzig Book Fair
The Leipzig Book Fair () 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. It is the first large trade meeting of the year and as such it plays an important role in the market and is often where new publications are first presented. . The Leipzig Book Fair generates most of its revenue from the general public. The evening program includes readings by authors in bookshops, cafes and the historic Leipzig City Hall. History The Leipzig Fair has its origins in the 15th century. The Leipzig Book Fair became the largest book fair in Germany in 1632 when it topped the fair in Frankfurt am Main in the number of books presented; Frankfurt featured 100 books, compared to Leipzig's 700 that year. The success and importance of the fair is linked to the emergence of a vibrant publishing industry in the city. By the 16th century, Leipzig was home t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Norbert Randow
Norbert is a Germanic given name and infrequent surname, from ''nord'' "north" and ''berht'' "bright". People with the given name Academia * Norbert Angermann (born 1936), German historian * Norbert A’Campo (born 1941), Swiss mathematician * Norbert Berkowitz (1924–2001), Canadian scientist * Norbert Bischofberger (born 1954), Austrian scientist * Norbert Bolz (born 1953), German philosopher * Norbert Elias (1897–1990), German Jewish sociologist * Norbert Fuhr (born 1956), German computer scientist * Norbert Geng (born 1965), German legal scholar * Norbert Guterman (1900–1984), American translator * Norbert von Hellingrath (1888-1916), German literary scholar * Norbert Hirschhorn (born 1938), American physician * Norbert Hornstein, American linguist * Norbert Jokl (1877–1942?), Austrian Jewish linguist * Norbert Klatt (1949–2015), German religious scholar * Norbert Leser (1933–2014), Austrian political scientist * Norbert Lynton (1927–2007), British art histori ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 childhood with his grandparents, as his father had died in 1945 in a labor camp, where he had been sent to as a Jew during World War II. From 1962 to 1967, he studied history at the Lomonossov University in Moscow. He then returned to his native town Budapest to work as a museologist. In 1968, Dalos was accused of "Maoist activities" and was handed seven months prison on probation and a Berufsverbot (professional disqualification) and a publication ban; due to that, he worked as a translator. In 1977, he was among the founders of the opposition movement against the Communist regime of Hungary. In 1988/89 he was co-editor of the East German underground opposition paper ''Ostkreuz''. From 1995 to 1999, Dalos was head of the Institute for Hungari ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karl Schlögel
Karl Schlögel (born 7 March 1948 in Hawangen, Bavaria, Germany) is a noted German historian of Eastern Europe who specialises in modern Russia, the history of Stalinism, the Russian diaspora and dissident movements, Eastern European cultural history and theoretical problems of historical narration. Life and career Schlögel studied philosophy, sociology, East European History and Slavic Studies at the Free University of Berlin from 1969 to 1981; this choice was inspired by visits to Czechoslovakia and the Soviet Union in 1965 and 1966 respectively. In these years he was actively involved in the left-wing student movement, publishing articles in various journals and articles. He reflected on this chapter in his life in the volume "''Partei kaputt: Das Scheitern der KPD und die Krise der Linken''" (''Party kaputt: The failure of the West German Communist Party and the crisis of the Left''.). In 1982-1983 he went to the M. V. Lomonosov Moscow State University on a research fel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Geert Mak
Geert Ludzer Mak (born 4 December 1946 in Vlaardingen) is a Dutch journalist and non-fiction writer. Honors For his book ''In Europe: Travels through the Twentieth Century'', he received the Leipziger Buchpreis zur Europäische Verständigung (2008) and the Otto von der Gablentz Prize (2009). The French government also awarded him the Chevalier de la Légion d’Honneur (2008). In the Netherlands, his exceptional engagement with international history has earned him the Golden Goose’s Feather (2015), the Comenius Prize (2016) and the Prince Bernhard Cultural Fund Prize for his entire oeuvre (2017). In the statement that accompanied the honorary degree from Münster, Mak was dubbed a “gifted storyteller” capable of “combining hard science, popularization, originality and engagement.” Historians are generally cautious when judging Mak’s work. Books In 1999, to mark the end of the century, Mak spent an entire year crisscrossing Europe for ''NRC Handelsblad'' and publish ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michail Ryklin
Michail Ryklin (Михаил Рыклин) is a Russian author of books and essays, and an internationalist university professor of Philosophy . Biography Provenance and early years Michail Kusmitsch Ryklin was born in Leningrad (as it was known at that time) during the aftermath of the Great Patriotic War. Kusma Ryklin, his father, was a military physician. His mother, Stalina, was the daughter of Sergei Tschaplin, a young Soviet intelligence officer who had fallen foul of the leader and died, probably during 1942, in the camps. In 1965, the family relocated to Moscow. Education of a philosopher After studying Philosophy and Aesthetics, Ryklin graduated with a first degree in 1971 from the Philosophy faculty at Moscow State University, where his teachers included Merab Mamardashvili. A postgraduate degree from the Institute of Philosophy followed in 1977. In 1978, he successfully defended his doctoral dissertation in History of Philosophy. His doctoral work ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gerd Koenen
Gerd Koenen (born 9 December 1944) is a German historian and former communist politician. Life and work Born in Marburg, Koenen grew up in Bochum and Gelsenkirchen and studied Romance languages, history and politics in Tübingen. There, he joined the Sozialistischer Deutscher Studentenbund (Socialist German Student Association) in the wake of the shooting of Benno Ohnesorg by the police. In 1968 he moved to Frankfurt, where in 1972, he completed the state exam in history and politics. In 1973, he joined the newly founded Communist League of West Germany (KBW). Under the influence of his party he gave up his 1974 doctoral dissertation, preferring instead to devote himself to the "revolutionary factory work" and from 1976 to edit the Communist People's Daily of KBW. As of 1982, Koenen distanced himself from KBW and was disillusioned with his study of the Polish antisoviet movement Solidarity. A number of Koenen's publications are devoted to the history of communism and its per ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yurii Andrukhovych
Yurii Ihorovych Andrukhovych (, born March 13, 1960 in Stanislav, Ukrainian SSR) is a Ukrainian prose writer, poet, essayist, and translator. His English pen name is Yuri Andrukhovych. Andrukhovych is a representative of the Stanislav phenomenon, a group of Ivano-Frankivsk postmodernist writers and co-founder of the poetic group Bu-Ba-Bu. Biography As a child Andrukhovych attended a school with a focus on studying German language and dreamt to become an archaeologist or a rock star. According to his own memoirs, after recognizing his poor prospects in archaeology he decided to study journalism. In 1982 Andrukhovych graduated with a degree in editing from the Ukrainian Printing Institute in Lviv. In the following years he worked for a newspaper and completed army service. In 1985, Andrukhovych co-founded the Bu-Ba-Bu poetic group, which stands for «burlesque, side-show, buffoonery» (Ukrainian: ''бурлеск, балаган, буфонада'') together with Oleksandr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Slavenka Drakulić
Slavenka Drakulić (born July 4, 1949) is a Croatian journalist, novelist, and essayist whose works on feminism, communism, and post-communism have been translated into many languages. Biography Drakulić was born in Rijeka, Socialist Republic of Croatia (at that time, part of Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, socialist Yugoslavia), on July 4, 1949. She graduated in comparative literature and sociology from the University in Zagreb in 1976. From 1982 to 1992, she was a staff writer for the ''Start'' bi-weekly newspaper and news weekly ''Danas'' (both in Zagreb), writing mainly on feminist issues. In addition to her novels and collections of essays, Drakulić's work has appeared in ''The New Republic'', ''The New York Times Magazine'', ''The New York Review of Books'', ''Süddeutsche Zeitung'', ''Internazionale'', ''The Nation (U.S. periodical), The Nation'', ''La Stampa'', ''Dagens Nyheter'', ''Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung'', Eurozine, ''Politiken'' and ''The Guardian''. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gábor Csordás
Gábor (sometimes written Gabor) may refer to: * Gábor (given name) * Gabor (surname) * Gabor sisters, the three famous actresses, Eva, Magda and Zsa Zsa * Several scientific terms named after Dennis Gabor ** Gabor atom ** Gabor filter, a linear filter used in image processing ** Gabor transform ** Gabor Medal The Gabor Medal is Awards, lectures and medals of the Royal Society, one of the medals awarded by the Royal Society for "acknowledged distinction of interdisciplinary work between the life sciences with other disciplines". The medal was creat ..., a medal of Royal Society awarded to biologists * ''Gabor'' (2014 film), a Spanish documentary film * ''Gabor'' (2021 film), a Canadian documentary film {{DEFAULTSORT:Gabor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dževad Karahasan
Dževad Karahasan (25 January 1953 – 19 May 2023) was a Bosnian writer, essayist and philosopher. Karahasan was awarded the Herder Prize and Goethe Medal for his writings. In 2020, the city of Frankfurt awarded him the Goethe Prize. Early life Karahasan was born in Tomislavgrad, Duvno (present-day Tomislavgrad) into an ethnic Bosniaks, Bosniak family. He described his father as a "religious communist" and mother as a devoted Muslim. He himself often spent time with Franciscan friars in the local monastery. He studied literature and theatre at the University of Sarajevo. He received his Ph.D. from the Faculty of Philosophy, Zagreb, Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Zagreb. Career From 1986 to 1993, Karahasan was a lecturer in drama and drama theory and the dean of the Academy for Performing Arts at the University of Sarajevo. In 1993, during the Siege of Sarajevo, he left the city – which plays a central role in many of his works – to become a guest lecturer at va ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barbara Antkowiak
Barbara may refer to: People * Barbara (given name) * Barbara (painter) (1915–2002), pseudonym of Olga Biglieri, Italian futurist painter * Barbara (singer) (1930–1997), French singer * Barbara Popović (born 2000), also known mononymously as Barbara, Macedonian singer * Bárbara (footballer) (born 1988), Brazilian footballer Film and television * ''Barbara'' (1961 film), a West German film * ''Bárbara'' (film), a 1980 Argentine film * ''Barbara'' (1997 film), a Danish film directed by Nils Malmros, based on Jacobsen's novel * ''Barbara'' (2012 film), a German film * ''Barbara'' (2017 film), a French film * ''Barbara'' (TV series), a British sitcom Places * Barbara (Paris Métro), a metro station in Montrouge and Bagneux, France * Barbaria (region), or al-Barbara, an ancient region in Northeast Africa * Barbara, Arkansas, U.S. * Barbara, Gaza, a former Palestinian village near Gaza * Barbara, Marche, a town in Italy * Berbara (other), or al-Barbara, Lebanon * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
