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. 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 Harald Weinrich (24 September 1927 – 26 February 2022) was a German classical scholar, scholar of Romance philology and philosopher, known for the breadth of his writings. Biography He was emeritus professor of the Collège de France, and hel ...

. 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 Rafik is the given name of: *Rafik Al-Hariri (1944–2005), business tycoon, former Prime Minister of Lebanon *Rafik Bouderbal (born 1987), French-born Algerian player currently playing for ES Sétif in the Algerian Championnat National *Rafik Deg ...

* 1986 –

Ota Filip Ota Filip (9 March 1930 – 2 March 2018) was a Czech novelist and journalist. He wrote in both German and Czech. Life Filip was born in Slezská Ostrava, in present-day Czech Republic. His novels have been translated into French, Italian, Span ...

* 1987 –

Franco Biondi Franco may refer to: Name * Franco (name) * Francisco Franco (1892–1975), Spanish general and dictator of Spain from 1939 to 1975 * Franco Luambo (1938–1989), Congolese musician, the "Grand Maître" Prefix * Franco, a prefix used when ...

and Gino Chiellino * 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 Yüksel Pazarkaya (born 1940) is a Turkish people, Turkish writer. He was born in 1940 in Izmir and studied engineering at the University of Stuttgart, before turning to study literature and philosophy. He has taught at universities in Germany (St ...

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Zehra Çırak Zehra Çırak (Istanbul, 1960) is a Turkish-German writer. She moved to Germany with her family when she was three years old and she has lived in Berlin since 1982. She started publishing in the magazine ''Flugfänger''. Works *''Flugfänger'' ...

* 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 th ...

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Alev Tekinay Alev Tekinay (born 1951) is a Turkish writer. She was born in Izmir and attended the German High School in Istanbul. She studied German at university in Munich, getting her PhD in 1979. She then taught German as a foreign language and Turkish in va ...

* 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 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 –

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Ismet Elci Ismet ( tr, İsmet) is a Turkish form of the Arabic name Ismet. Along with Turkish, the name is also seen in Albanian, Bosnian, and Macedonian. The name means "honesty" or "purity" and in classical "infallibility", "immaculate", "impeccability" a ...

* 1994 – Dante Andrea Franzetti; PP: Dragica Rajcić * 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 * 1996 – Yoko Tawada; PP: Marijan Nakić * 1997 – Güney Dal and José F. A. Oliver; honorary award: Jiří Gruša * 1998 –

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 ...

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Abdellatif Belfellah Abdul Latif ( ar, عبد اللطيف, translit=ʻAbd al-Laṭīf) is a Muslim male given name and, in modern usage, surname. It is built from the Arabic words '' ʻabd'' and ''al-Laṭīf'', one of the names of God in the Qur'an, which gave rise to ...

* 1999 –

Emine Sevgi Özdamar Emine Sevgi Özdamar (born 10 August 1946) is a writer, director, and actress of Turkish origin who resides in Germany and has resided there for many years. Özdamar's art is unique in that it is influenced by her life experiences, which straddl ...

; 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 –

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Radek Knapp Radek is a masculine Christian name of Slavic origin. It is often nickname of Radovan, Ctirad and Radoslav. It is used as a surname and given name. Notable people with the name include: Given name * Radek Baborák, Czech conductor and French h ...

and

Vladimir Vertlib Vladimir Vertlib, born 2 July 1966 in Leningrad, Russia, immigrated to Austria where he became a writer. His works, revolving around the themes of migration, Judaism, and identity, have been translated to Russian, Czech, Slovenian, and Italian. ...

; honorary award: Imre Kertész * 2002 – SAID; PP: Francesco Micieli and Catalin Dorian Florescu; honorary award:

* 2003 –

Ilma Rakusa Ilma Rakusa (born 2 January 1946) is a Swiss writer and translator. She translates French, Russian, Serbo-Croatian and Hungarian into German. Biography Ilma Rakusa was born in 1946 in Rimavská Sobota, Slovakia to a Slovenian father and a Hungar ...

; PP: Hussain al-Mozany and Marica Bodrozic * 2004 –

Asfa-Wossen Asserate ''Le'ul Ras'' (Prince) Dr Asfa-Wossen Asserate (Amharic: አስፋ ወሰን ዓሥራተ; born 31 October 1948, in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia) is an Ethiopian-German political analyst and consultant for African and Middle-Eastern Affairs and best-se ...

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, Hungarian revolution of 1956 and she studied journalism, political science, and literature at the J ...

; PP: Yadé Kara * 2005 –

Feridun Zaimoğlu Feridun Zaimoğlu (born 4 December 1964, in Bolu) is a German author and visual artist of Turkish descent. Since 1995 Zaimoğlu has become one of the important poets of contemporary German language. His central themes are the problems of the seco ...

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Dimitré Dinev Dimitré Dinev (Bulgarian: Димитър Динев) (born 1968 in Plovdiv, Bulgaria) is a Bulgarian-born Austrian writer. He is best known for his play ''Kozha i nebe'' (''Skin and sky''), which controversially won the Askeer prize in 2007. Al ...

* 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 ...

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Sudabeh Mohafez Sudabeh Mohafez ( fa, سودابه محافظ) born 1963 in Tehran, Imperial State of Iran is a German author. Biography Sudabeh Mohafez studied music, English studies and pedagogy. She worked at various Non-governmental organizations in the fi ...

and Eleonora Hummel * 2007 – Magdalena Sadlon; PP: Que Du Luu and Luo Lingyuan * 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 ...

; 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 family, ...

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

; PP:

Abbas Khider Abbas Khadir (3 March 1973; German: Abbas Khider; Arabic: عباس خضر) is a German author and poet of Iraqi origin. He was imprisoned for his political activism against the regime of Saddam Hussein, and took refuge in a number of countries ...

and Nino Haratischwili * 2011 –

Jean Krier Jean Krier (2 January 1949 – 12 January 2013) was a Luxembourg poet who in 2011 was awarded both the Adelbert von Chamisso Prize for the best work by a non-German author and the Servais Prize for the best literary work written by a Luxembourge ...

; PP: Olga Martynova 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 in ...

and

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 disempowe ...

* 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 (born 1940), Kurdish poet * Sherko Haji-Rasouli (born 1980), Canadian footbal ...

, PP: Olga Grjasnowa and

Martin Kordic Martin may refer to: Places * Martin City (disambiguation) * Martin County (disambiguation) * Martin Township (disambiguation) Antarctica * Martin Peninsula, Marie Byrd Land * Port Martin, Adelie Land * Point Martin, South Orkney Islands Austral ...

* 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 ...

and

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 –

; Barbi Marković and Senthuran Varatharajah (FP)

References

External links

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