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List of laureates

* 1995: Franz Hodjak * 1996: Gert Loschütz * 1997:

Katja Lange-Müller Katja Lange-Müller (born 13 February 1951) is a German writer living in Berlin. Her works include several short stories and novellas, radio dramas, and dramatic works. The daughter of Inge Lange, an East German party functionary, Katja Lange- ...

* 1998: Hansjörg Schertenleib * 1999: Christine Scherrmann * 2000:

Andreas Mand Andreas Mand (born 14 December 1959) is a German contemporary author of novels, short stories and essays and a playwright. He is one of the representatives of the German Popular literature, and in addition a stay-at-home dad, because he wanted to ...

* 2001: Harald Gröhler * 2002:

Burkhard Spinnen Burkhard Spinnen (born December 28, 1956, in Mönchengladbach) is a German author. Education and early life Spinnen grew up in Mönchengladbach as the only child of Willy and Cornelia Spinnen. After completing his secondary education and his mi ...

* 2003: Roland Koch (author) * 2004: Andreas Maier * 2005:

Daniel Kehlmann Daniel Kehlmann (; born 13 January 1975) is a German-language novelist and playwright of both Austrian and German nationality.Mathias Énard Mathias Énard (born 1972) is a French novelist. He studied Persian and Arabic and spent long periods in the Middle East. He has lived in Barcelona for about fifteen years, interrupted in 2013 by a writing residency in Berlin. He won several aw ...

* 2009:

Volker Braun Volker Braun (born 7 May 1939 in Dresden) is a German writer. His works include ''Provokation für mich'' (''Provocation for me'') – a collection of poems written between 1959 and 1964 and published in 1965, a play, ''Die Kipper'' (''The Dumpe ...

and Olivia Rosenthal * 2010: Jan Faktor * 2011:

Peter Handke Peter Handke (; born 6 December 1942) is an Austrians, Austrian novelist, playwright, translator, poet, film director, and screenwriter. He was awarded the 2019 Nobel Prize in Literature "for an influential work that with linguistic ingenuity has ...

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Foundation Genshagen
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Official website of the Villa Gillet
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Official website of the Literary Association Minden
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References

Awards established in 1995 German literary awards French literary awards France–Germany relations Novella awards {{lit-award-stub