The Buxtehude Bull (German: Buxtehuder Bulle) is an award for youth literature, established in 1971 by Winfried Ziemann, a local book merchant from

Buxtehude Buxtehude (), officially the Hanseatic City of Buxtehude (german: Hansestadt Buxtehude, nds, Hansestadt Buxthu ()), is a town on the Este River in Northern Germany, belonging to the district of Stade in Lower Saxony. It is part of the Hamburg ...

, a

Hanseatic City The Hanseatic League (; gml, Hanse, , ; german: label=Modern German, Deutsche Hanse) was a medieval commercial and defensive confederation of merchant guilds and market towns in Central and Northern Europe. Growing from a few North German t ...

located in the Hamburg Metropolitan Region. The town council took over the sponsorship of the award in 1981. The award is given annually to the best children's or young-adults' book published in German (either native language or translated) in the preceding year. The writer is presented with a small steel statue of the bull (German: ''Bulle'') Ferdinand, from the popular work ''

The Story of Ferdinand ''The Story of Ferdinand'' (1936) is the best-known work by the American author Munro Leaf. Illustrated by Robert Lawson, the children's book tells the story of a bull who would rather smell flowers than fight in bullfights. He sits in the midd ...

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Munro Leaf Wilbur Monroe Leaf ( Munro Leaf) (December 4, 1905 – December 21, 1976) was an American writer of children's literature who wrote and illustrated nearly 40 books during his 40-year career. He is best known for ''The Story of Ferdinand'' (1936), ...

, and also receives a monetary prize of €5,000.

Awards

* 1971: Alexander Sutherland Neill, ''Die grüne Wolke'' * 1972: Cili Wethekam, ''Tignasse, Kind der Revolution'' * 1973: Tilman Röhrig, ''Thoms Bericht'' * 1974:

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, ''Zwischen den Feuern'' * 1975:

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, ''Und im Fenster der Himmel'' * 1976:

Jaap ter Haar Jaap ter Haar (25 March 1922 – 26 February 1998) was a prolific Dutch author of children's literature. Career Early in his career ter Haar worked for the Radio Netherlands Worldwide. In addition to his day job, ter Haar made many Radio dra ...

, ''Behalt das Leben lieb'' * 1977:

Gudrun Pausewang Gudrun Pausewang (3 March 1928 – 23 January 2020), less commonly known by her married name, Gudrun Wilcke, was a German author of children's and young adult literature. She was known for books such as '' The Last Children of Schewenborn'' and ...

, ''Die Not der Familie Caldera'' * 1978:

Leonie Ossowski Jolanthe von Brandenstein (15 August 1925 – 4 February 2019), known by her pen name Leonie Ossowski, was a German writer. She also wrote under the name Jo Tiedemann. She wrote novels, including the novel for young adults ''Die große Flatter'' ...

, ''Stern ohne Himmel'' * 1979:

Michael Ende Michael Andreas Helmuth Ende (12 November 1929 – 28 August 1995) was a German writer of fantasy and children's fiction. He is known for his epic fantasy ''The Neverending Story'' (with its 1980s film adaptation and a 1995 animated television ...

, ''Die unendliche Geschichte'' (''

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'') * 1980: Hermann Vinke, ''Das kurze Leben der

Sophie Scholl Sophia Magdalena Scholl (9 May 1921 – 22 February 1943) was a German student and anti-Nazi political activist, active within the White Rose non-violent resistance group in Nazi Germany. She was convicted of high treason after having been f ...

'' * 1981:

Myron Levoy Myron M. Levoy (January 30, 1930 – December 30, 2019) was an American author of children's and young adults literature. After graduating from Purdue University he worked as a chemical engineer and was involved in the field of space engineerin ...

, ''Der gelbe Vogel'' (''

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'') * 1982: Rudolf Frank, ''Der Junge, der seinen Geburtstag vergaß'' * 1983:

, ''Die letzten Kinder von Schewenborn'' (''

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'') * 1984:

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, ''Donnergrollen hör mein Schrei'n'' * 1985: Urs M. Fiechtner, ''Annas Geschichte'' * 1986:

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, ''Über die Barrikaden'' * 1987:

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, ''Hinter vorgehaltener Hand'' * 1988: Isolde Heyne, ''Sternschnuppenzeit'' * 1989:

Heidi Glade-Hassenmüller ''Heidi'' (; ) is a work of children's fiction published in 1881 by Swiss author Johanna Spyri, originally published in two parts as ''Heidi: Her Years of Wandering and Learning'' (german: Heidis Lehr- und Wanderjahre) and ''Heidi: How She Used ...

, ''Gute Nacht, Zuckerpüppchen'' * 1990:

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, ''Rosalie'' * 1991: Ursula Wölfel, ''Ein Haus für alle'' * 1992: Mecka Lind, ''Manchmal gehört mir die ganze Welt'' * 1993:

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, ''Der erste Frühling'' * 1994: Katarina von Bredow, ''Ludvig meine Liebe'' * 1995:

Tonke Dragt Antonia "Tonke" Johanna Willemina Dragt (born 12 November 1930) is a Dutch writer and illustrator of children's literature. Her book '' De brief voor de Koning'' was chosen by CPNB as the best Dutch youth book of the latter half of the twentieth ...

, ''Turmhoch und meilenweit'' * 1996:

Jostein Gaarder Jostein Gaarder (; born 8 August 1952) is a Norwegian intellectual and author of several novels, short stories, and children's books. Gaarder often writes from the perspective of children, exploring their sense of wonder about the world. He often ...

, ''Durch einen Spiegel, in einem dunklen Wort'' ('' Through a Glass, Darkly'') * 1997: Ralf Isau, ''Das Museum der gestohlenen Erinnerungen'' * 1998: Andreas Steinhöfel, ''Die Mitte der Welt'' * 1999: John Marsden, ''Gegen jede Chance'' (''Third Day, the Frost'') * 2000: Sherryl Jordan, ''Junipers Spiel'' * 2001:

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, ''Wohin du mich führst'' * 2002: Hanna Jansen, ''Über tausend Hügel wandere ich mit dir'' * 2003:

Nancy Farmer Nancy Farmer is an American author of children's and young adult books and science fiction. She has written three Newbery Honor Books and won the U.S. National Book Award for Young People's Literature for ''The House of the Scorpion'', publish ...

, ''Das Skorpionenhaus'' (''

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'') * 2004: Rainer M. Schröder, ''Die Lagune der Galeeren'' * 2005: Kevin Brooks, '' Lucas'' * 2006:

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, ''Bis(s) zum Morgengrauen'' (''

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'') * 2007: Anne C. Voorhoeve, ''Liverpool Street'' * 2008: Markus Zusak, ''Die Bücherdiebin'' (''

The Book Thief ''The Book Thief'' is a historical fiction novel by the Australian author Markus Zusak, and is his most popular book. Published in 2005, ''The Book Thief'' became an international bestseller and was translated into 63 languages and sold 16 mil ...

'') * 2009:

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, ''Die Tribute von Panem – Tödliche Spiele'' (''

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'') * 2010:

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, ''Die Welt, wie wir sie kannten'' * 2011:

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, ''Delirium'' * 2012:

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, ''Das Schicksal ist ein mieser Verräter'' * 2013: Christine Fehér, ''Dann mach ich eben Schluss'' * 2014:

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, ''28 Tage lang'' * 2015:

Victoria Aveyard Victoria Aveyard (born July 27, 1990) is an American writer of young adult and fantasy fiction and screenplays. She is known for her fantasy novel '' Red Queen''. Aveyard wrote the novel a year after graduating from University of Southern Califor ...

, ''Die Farben des Blutes: Die rote Königin'' * 2016: Tamara Ireland Stone, ''Mit anderen Worten: ich'' * 2017:

John Boyne John Boyne (born 30 April 1971) is an Irish novelist. He is the author of eleven novels for adults and six novels for younger readers. His novels are published in over 50 languages. His 2006 novel '' The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas'' was adapt ...

, ''Der Junge auf dem Berg'' (''The Boy at the Top of the Mountain'') * 2018: Amy Giles, ''Jetzt ist alles, was wir haben'' (''Now Is Everything'') * 2019:

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, ''Acht Wochen Wüste'' (''Wild Bird'') * 2020:

Alan Gratz Alan Michael Gratz (born January 27, 1972) is the author of 17 novels for young adults including ''Prisoner B-3087'', ''Code of Honor'', ''Grenade'', ''Something Rotten'', and ''Refugee''. Alan Gratz was born in Knoxville, Tennessee. He holds a ...

, ''Vor uns das Meer. Drei Jugendliche, drei Jahrzehnte, eine Hoffnung'' (''

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'') * 2021: Malene Sølvsten, ''Ansuz – Das Flüstern der Raben''

References

External links

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