The Adelbert von Chamisso Prize (

German German(s) may refer to: * Germany (of or related to) ** Germania (historical use) * Germans, citizens of Germany, people of German ancestry, or native speakers of the German language ** For citizens of Germany, see also German nationality law **Ge ...

''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 Adelbert von Chamisso (; 30 January 178121 August 1838) was a German poet and botanist, author of ''Peter Schlemihl'', a famous story about a man who sold his shadow. He was commonly known in French as Adelbert de Chamisso (or Chamissot) de Bonc ...

. It was offered by the

Robert Bosch Stiftung The Robert Bosch Stiftung GmbH () is a German foundation that owns a majority shareholding in Robert Bosch GmbH, from which it derives its funding. The foundation was established in accordance with the wishes of Robert Bosch, who died in 1942, an ...

. 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 Carmine Gino Chiellino (born in 1946 in Carlopoli, Italy) is an intercultural literary scholar, writer, editor and translator. He traveled to Germany for the first time in 1969 to conduct research for his university thesis. After studying Italian ...

* 1988 – Elazar Benyoëtz; PP: Zafer Şenocak * 1989 – Yüksel Pazarkaya; PP:

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 ...

; PP: Alev Tekinay * 1991 – Libuše Moníková; PP: SAID * 1992 –

Adel Karasholi Adel Karasholi (Arabic: عادل قرشولي. born October 15, 1936) is a German and Arabic writer. Life Already a published poet in his youth, he founded a literary magazine in Damascus which was banned by the Syrian government. He then began w ...

and Galsan Tschinag * 1993 –

; PP:

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 Dante Alighieri (; – 14 September 1321), probably baptized Durante di Alighiero degli Alighieri and often referred to as Dante (, ), was an Italian people, Italian Italian poetry, poet, writer and philosopher. His ''Divine Comedy'', origin ...

; PP:

Dragica Rajcić Dragica (Cyrillic The Cyrillic script ( ), Slavonic script or the Slavic script, is a writing system used for various languages across Eurasia. It is the designated national script in various Slavic, Turkic, Mongolic, Uralic, Caucasian and ...

* 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 László () is a Hungarian male given name and surname after the King-Knight Saint Ladislaus I of Hungary (1077–1095). It derives from Ladislav, a variant of Vladislav. Other versions are Lessl or Laszly. The name has a history of being frequen ...

* 1996 –

Yoko Tawada Yōko Tawada (多和田葉子 ''Tawada Yōko'', born March 23, 1960) is a Japanese writer currently living in Berlin, Germany. She writes in both Japanese and German. Tawada has won numerous literary awards, including the Akutagawa Prize, the Tan ...

; PP:

Marijan Nakić Marijan is a male Croatian first name. The Macedonian version of this name is Marjan. Marijan is also a last name found in Croatia. People named Marijan *Marijan Beneš – Croatian boxer * Marijan Brkić Brk – Croatian musician * Marijan ...

* 1997 –

Güney Dal Güney Dal (born 1944, in Çanakkale) is a Turkish-German writer. He has worked as journalist for the radio and television service Sender Freies Berlin Sender Freies Berlin (; abbreviated SFB ; ) was the ARD public radio and television serv ...

and José F. A. Oliver; honorary award:

Jiří Gruša Jiří Gruša (10 November 1938, in Pardubice – 28 October 2011, in Bad Oeynhausen) was a Czech people, Czech poet, novelist, translator, diplomat and politician.Natascha Wodin; PP:

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 –

; PP: Radek Knapp and Vladimir Vertlib; honorary award:

Imre Kertész Imre Kertész (; 9 November 192931 March 2016) was a Hungarian author and recipient of the 2002 Nobel Prize in Literature, "for writing that upholds the fragile experience of the individual against the barbaric arbitrariness of history". He was ...

* 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 Hunga ...

; 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 ...

; PP: Dimitré Dinev * 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 ...

; PP: Sudabeh Mohafez and

Eleonora Hummel Eleanor () is a feminine given name, originally from an Old French adaptation of the Old Provençal name ''Aliénor''. It is the name of a number of women of royalty and nobility in western Europe during the High Middle Ages. The name was introd ...

* 2007 –

Magdalena Sadlon Magdalena may refer to: * Magdalena (given name), a given name derived from Mary Magdalene (including a list of people with the name) Entertainment * Magdalena (comics), an American comic book superheroine * ''Magdalena'' (film), a 1920 Czechos ...

; PP: Que Du Luu and

Luo Lingyuan Luo may refer to: Luo peoples and languages *Luo peoples, an ethno-linguistic group of eastern and central Africa **Luo people of Kenya and Tanzania or Joluo, an ethnic group in western Kenya, eastern Uganda, and northern Tanzania. *** Luoland, th ...

* 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 and

Nino Haratischwili Nino Haratischwili ( ka, ნინო ხარატიშვილი; born 8 June 1983) is a Georgia born German novelist, playwright, and theater director. She has received numerous awards, including the Adelbert von Chamisso Prize, the Kran ...

* 2011 – Jean Krier; PP:

Olga Martynova Olga Martynova (born in 1962 in Dudinka, Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia) is a Russian-German writer. She writes poems in Russian, and prose and essays in German. Olga Martynova grew up in Leningrad where she studied Russian literature and language and ...

and Nicol Ljubić * 2012 – Michael Stavarič; PP: Akos Doma and Ilir Ferra * 2013 –

Marjana Gaponenko Marjana Michailowna Gaponenko (; born 6 September 1981) is a German writer born in Odesa, Ukraine. Life Marjana Gaponenko spent her childhood and youth in Odessa. After leaving school, she studied German at the University of Odessa and started ...

; PP: Matthias Nawrat and Anila Wilms * 2014 –

Ann Cotten Ann Cotten (born 1982 in Ames, Iowa) is an American-born Austrian writer. Life and work At the age of five, Cotten moved to Vienna with her parents, who are both biochemists who worked in Vienna. She finished university there in 2006 with a work ...

; PP:

Dana Ranga Dana Ranga (born 1964 in Bucharest) is a Romanian writer and film director, currently living and working in Berlin. Life Dana Ranga was born in 1964 in Bucharest. Initially, she studied medicine at the Carol Davila University of Medicine and P ...

and Nellja Veramoj * 2015 – Sherko Fatah, PP: Olga Grjasnowa and Martin Kordic * 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 – Abbas Khider; 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