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Solothurner Literaturpreis
The Solothurner Literaturpreis is a literary award for a literary achievement by a German language writer. Awarded since 1994, the annual prize is 15,000 Swiss francs. It is named after the city of Solothurn in Switzerland. Winners *1994: Monika Maron *1995: Wilhelm Genazino *1996: Klaus Merz *1997: Christoph Ransmayr *1998: Thomas Hürlimann *1999: Birgit Vanderbeke *2000: Christoph Hein *2001: Anna Mitgutsch *2002: Erich Hackl *2003: Hanna Johansen *2004: Barbara Honigmann *2005: Kathrin Röggla *2006: Matthias Zschokke *2007: *2008: Jenny Erpenbeck *2009: Juli Zeh *2010: Ulrike Draesner *2011: Peter Bichsel *2012: Annette Pehnt *2013: Franz Hohler *2014: Lukas Bärfuss *2015: Thomas Hettche *2016: *2017: Terézia Mora *2018: Peter Stamm *2019: Karen Duve *2020: Monika Helfer *2021: * 2022: ''not awarded'' See also * German literature * List of literary awards * List of poetry awards * List of years in literature * List of years in poetry This article gives a chronol ...
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Literary Award
A literary award or literary prize is an award presented in recognition of a particularly lauded literary piece or body of work. It is normally presented to an author. Organizations Most literary awards come with a corresponding award ceremony. Many awards are structured with one organization (usually a non-profit organization) as the presenter and public face of the award, and another organization as the financial sponsor or backer, who pays the prize remuneration and the cost of the ceremony and public relations, typically a corporate sponsor who may sometimes attach their name to the award (such as the Orange Prize). Types of awards There are awards for various writing formats including poetry and novels. Many awards are also dedicated to a certain genre of fiction or non-fiction writing (such as science fiction or politics). There are also awards dedicated to works in individual languages, such as the Miguel de Cervantes Prize (Spanish), the Camões Prize (Portuguese), the ...
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Juli Zeh
Juli Zeh (, Julia Barbara Finck, née Zeh; born 30 June 1974 in Bonn) is a German writer and former judge. Biography Her first book was ''Adler und Engel'' (translated into English as ''Eagles and Angels'' by Christine Slenczka), which won the 2002 Deutscher Bücherpreis for best debut novel. She traveled through Bosnia-Herzegovina in 2001, which became the basis for the book ''Die Stille ist ein Geräusch''. Her other books are ''Das Land der Menschen'', ''Schilf'' (translated into English as ''Dark Matter'' by Christine Lo), ''Alles auf dem Rasen'', ''Kleines Konversationslexikon für Haushunde'', ''Spieltrieb'', ''Ein Hund läuft durch die Republik'', ''Nullzeit'' and ''Corpus Delicti'' (translated into English as '' The Method'' by Sally-Ann Spencer). Zeh lived in Leipzig from 1995, and currently resides outside Berlin. Zeh studied law in Passau and Leipzig, passing the Zweites Juristisches Staatsexamen – comparable equivalent to the U.S. bar exam – in 2003, and holds a ...
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List Of Poetry Awards
Major international awards * Golden Wreath of Struga Poetry Evenings * Bridges of Struga (for a debuting author at Struga Poetry Evenings) * Griffin Poetry Prize (The international prize) * International Hippocrates Prize for Poetry and Medicine (Open First Prize=£5000) * Montreal International Poetry Prize ($20,000 prize for one poem) * National Poetry Competition (International, First Prize=£5000) * Nobel Prize in Literature (Not exclusively for poetry) * Poetic Republic Poetry Prize (Anonymous peer review poetry competition) * Poetry London Prize (First Prize=£5000) * Rhysling Award (For science-fiction poetry) * Pushcart Prize ("Best of the Small Presses") * Charles Causley Trust International Poetry Competition (First Prize=£2000) * Derek Walcott Prize for Poetry Asia * SAARC Literary Award Africa * Brunel University African Poetry Prize Australia * Anne Elder Award * Bruce Dawe National Poetry Prize * Christopher Brennan Award * C. J. Dennis Prize for Poetr ...
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List Of Literary Awards
This list of literary awards from around the world is an index to articles about notable literary awards. International awards All nationalities & multiple languages eligible (in chronological order) * Nobel Prize in Literature – since 1901 * Golden Wreath of Struga Poetry Evenings – since 1966 * Neustadt International Prize for Literature – since 1970 * International Botev Prize – since 1972 * The Bookseller/Diagram Prize for Oddest Title of the Year – since 1978 * Common Wealth Award of Distinguished Service – since 1979 * America Award – since 1994 * Balint Balassi Memorial Sword Award – since 1997 * Franz Kafka Prize – since 2001 * Sense of Gender Awards – since 2001 * Ovid Prize – since 2002 * Dayton Literary Peace Prize – since 2006 * European Union Prize for Literature – since 2009 * Jan Michalski Prize for Literature – since 2009 * Paris Literary Prize – since 2010 * KONS International Literary Award – since 2011 * Grand Prix of ...
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German Literature
German literature () comprises those literature, literary texts written in the German language. This includes literature written in Germany, Austria, the German parts of Switzerland and Belgium, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, South Tyrol in Italy and to a lesser extent works of the German diaspora. German literature of the modern period is mostly in Standard German, but there are some currents of literature influenced to a greater or lesser degree by German dialects, dialects (e.g. Alemannic literature, Alemannic). Medieval German literature is literature written in Germany, stretching from the Carolingian dynasty; various dates have been given for the end of the German literary Middle Ages, the Protestant Reformation, Reformation (1517) being the last possible cut-off point. The Old High German period is reckoned to run until about the mid-11th century; the most famous works are the ''Hildebrandslied'' and a heroic epic known as the ''Heliand''. Middle High German starts in the 12t ...
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Monika Helfer
Monika Helfer (born 18 October 1947, in Au) is an Austrian writer. She was invested with the Austrian Decoration for Science and Art in 2016. She was the recipient of the Solothurner Literaturpreis in 2020, and the Schubart-Literaturpreis in 2021. She has been nominated twice for the German Book Prize The German Book Prize (''Deutscher Buchpreis'') is awarded annually, in October, by the German Publishers and Booksellers Association (''Börsenverein des Deutschen Buchhandels'') to the best new German language novel of the year. The books, publ ... in 2017 and 2021. References 1947 births Living people Austrian writers {{Austria-writer-stub ...
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Karen Duve
Karen Duve (born 16 November 1961 in Hamburg (male), (female) en, Hamburger(s), Hamburgian(s) , timezone1 = Central (CET) , utc_offset1 = +1 , timezone1_DST = Central (CEST) , utc_offset1_DST = +2 , postal ...) is a German author. After secondary school, she worked as a proof-reader and taxi driver in Hamburg. Since 1990 she has been a freelance writer. Bibliography *''Im tiefen Schnee ein stilles Heim'', short stories, Achilla Presse 1995, *''Bruno Orso fliegt ins Weltall'', (with Judith Zaugg), comic, Maro Verlag 1997, *''Lexikon berühmter Tiere'', (with Thies Völker), Eichborn 1997, *''Keine Ahnung: Erzählungen'', Suhrkamp 1999, *''Lexikon berühmter Pflanzen'', (with Thies Völker), List TB 1999, *''Regenroman'', Ullstein 1999, (English translation entitled ''Rain'') *''Weihnachten mit Thomas Müller'', Eichborn 2003, *''Dies ist kein Liebeslied'', 2004, (English translation ...
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Peter Stamm
Peter Stamm (born 18 January 1963 in Münsterlingen) is a Swiss writer. His prize-winning books have been translated into more than thirty languages. For his entire body of work and his accomplishments in fiction, he was short-listed for the Booker Prize in 2013, and in 2014 he won the prestigious Friedrich Hölderlin Prize. Life Peter Stamm grew up in Weinfelden in the canton of Thurgau the son of an accountant. After completing primary and secondary school he spent three years as an apprentice accountant and then five as an accountant. He then chose to go back to school at the University of Zurich taking courses in a variety of fields including English studies, Business informatics, Psychology, and Psychopathology. During this time he also worked as an intern at a psychiatric clinic. After living for a time in New York, Paris, and Scandinavia he settled down in 1990 as a writer and freelance journalist in Zurich. He wrote articles for, among others, the Neue Zürcher ...
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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 the political changes in Hungary in 1990 in order to study Hungarian studies and drama at the Humboldt University in Berlin. Subsequently she trained as a screenwriter at the Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin. Career Mora is working on a trilogy about the IT specialist Darius Kopp, of which band I "The Only Man on the Continent" and Volume II "The Monster" have already appeared. She is a member of the German PEN Center and the Deutsche Akademie für Sprache und Dichtung, whom she was elected by as a member in 2015. Since 1990 she has lived in Berlin, working as a freelance writer, writing in German. Mora is married and has one daughter. Awards and honours * 1997: Würth Literature Prize for her screenplay The Ways of Water in ...
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Thomas Hettche
Thomas Hettche (born 30 November 1964 in Treis, Hesse) is a German author. Hettche completed his ''Abitur'' at the Liebigschule Giessen, He studied German studies and philosophy at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main and completed his PhD in philosophy. ''What We Are Made Of'', an English translation by Shaun Whiteside of Hettche's novel ''Woraus wir gemacht sind'' (2006), was published by Picador in Britain in July 2008, and in the United States in October 2010.Pitt, David (15 September 2010). "What We Are Made Of" (review). ''Booklist''. p. 33. Retrieved via ''Biography In Context'' database, 6 May 2019. Since 2018, he has been honorary professor at the TU Berlin. Hettche lives in Berlin. Awards * 1990 Rauris Literature Prize * 2014 Wilhelm Raabe Literature Prize * 2015 Solothurner Literaturpreis * 2018 Hermann-Hesse-Literaturpreis * 2019 Joseph-Breitbach-Preis Memberships * 1999 PEN Centre Germany * 2019 Academy of Arts, Berlin The Academy of Ar ...
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Lukas Bärfuss
Lukas Bärfuss (born 30 December 1971) is a Swiss writer and playwright who writes in German. He won the Georg Büchner Prize in 2019. Biography Born in Thun, Switzerland in 1971, Lukas Bärfuss began training as a bookseller after graduating from high school. In 1998, he co-founded the independent theater group 400asa. Awards Bärfuss has won the Mülheimer Dramatikerpreis in 2005 for the play ''Der Bus (Das Zeug einer Heiligen)'', the Anna Seghers-Preis in 2008, the Hans Fallada Prize in 2010, the Solothurner Literaturpreis in 2014, the Swiss Book Prize (german: link=no, Schweizer Buchpreis) in 2014 for ''Koala'', the Nicolas Born Prize in 2015 and the Johann-Peter-Hebel-Preis in 2016. In 2019, he was awarded the Georg Büchner Prize for his dramas, novels and essays. The Deutsche Akademie für Sprache und Dichtung praised his work, among other things, as being permeated by "a high degree of stylistic certainty and formal richness of variation" that explores "always anew and ...
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Franz Hohler
Franz Hohler (born 1 March 1943) is a Swiss author and cabaret performer based in Zürich. Life Hohler is the author of one-man programs and satirical programs for television and radio. He has written theater pieces, children's books, stories and novels. In 2002, he received the Kassel Literary Prize for Grotesque Humor, in 2005 the Art Prize of Zurich, in 2014 the Johann-Peter-Hebel-Preis. One of Hohler's most famous works is the "Totemügerli". It's a Swiss-German story based upon a fabulous creature, written to make fun of the particular dialect spoken in the Canton of Bern german: Berner(in)french: Bernois(e) it, bernese , neighboring_municipalities = Bremgarten bei Bern, Frauenkappelen, Ittigen, Kirchlindach, Köniz, Mühleberg, Muri bei Bern, Neuenegg, Ostermundigen, Wohlen bei Bern, Zollikofen , website ... by using words sounding like the Bernese dialect but which aren't real words. His collection of witty short stories ''Der Stein'' (2011) features borde ...
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