Gerrit-Engelke-Preis

Gerrit-Engelke-Preis is a literary prize of

Hannover Hanover (; german: Hannover ; nds, Hannober) is the capital and largest city of the German States of Germany, state of Lower Saxony. Its 535,932 (2021) inhabitants make it the List of cities in Germany by population, 13th-largest city in Germa ...

, parallel to Kurt-Morawietz-Literaturpreis. Both are replaced by Hölty-Preis. * 1979:

Günter Herburger Günter Herburger (April 6, 1932 – May 3, 2018) was a German writer. He was initially counted among the "New Realists" funded by , became the author of socialist, imaginative utopian worlds since the 1970s and took an outsider position in German ...

and Günter Wallraff * 1981:

Ingeborg Drewitz Ingeborg Drewitz (born Ingeborg Neubert; 10 January 1923 – 26 November 1986) was a German writer and academic. Life and career Drewitz was born in Berlin. She graduated in 1941 from the Königin-Luise-Schule in Berlin-Friedenau, and took ...

* 1983:

Axel Eggebrecht Axel Constantin August Eggebrecht (10 January 1899 – 14 July 1991) was a German journalist, writer, and screenwriter. Life Eggebrecht grew up in bourgeois surroundings in Leipzig until 1917 when he volunteered to serve in the First World War wh ...

* 1985:

Max von der Grün Max von der Grün (; 25 May 1926 – 7 April 2005) was a Germans, German novelist. Max von der Grün was born in Sankt Georgen (Bayreuth) and grew up in Mitterteich. After a clerical apprenticeship, he became a paratrooper during World War II in ...

* 1987:

Gisela Elsner Gisela Elsner (2 May 1937 – 13 May 1992) was a German writer. She won the Prix Formentor in 1964 for her novel ''Die Riesenzwerge'' (''The Giant Dwarfs''). Early life Elsner was born in Nuremberg, Middle Franconia. In 1959, she went to Vienna ...

* 1989:

Friedrich Christian Delius Friedrich Christian Delius (13 February 1943 – 30 May 2022), also known by his pen name F.C. Delius, was a German novelist. He wrote books about historic events, such as the 1954 FIFA World Cup, and RAF terrorism. Four of his novels were tr ...

* 1991: Adam Seide * 1993:

Helga M. Novak Helga M. Novak (pseudonym for Maria Karlsdottir; 8 September 1935 – 24 December 2013) was a German-Icelandic writer. Novak was born in Berlin. She grew up in East Germany, studied journalism and philosophy at the University of Leipzig. She resi ...

* 1995:

Erich Hackl Erich Hackl (born 26 May 1954 in Steyr, Upper Austria) is an Austrian novelist and short story writer. His works have been translated into English, Spanish, French, Czech and Hebrew though he is significantly better known in the German-speaking w ...

* 1997:

Dea Loher Dea Loher (born 1964) is a German playwright and author. Biography Dea Loher was born Andrea Beate Loher in 1964 in Traunstein, Bavaria, Germany. She initially used the first name Dea as a pen name, but eventually changed her name officially to ...

* 1999:

Kerstin Hensel Kerstin Hensel (born 1961) is a German writer. Biography Hensel was born in 1961 in Karl-Marx Stadt in the former GDR. A trained nurse, she also studied at the Johannes R. Becher Institute of Literature in Leipzig. She has published numerous bo ...

* 2001:

Angela Krauß Angela may refer to: Places * Angela, Montana * Angela Lake, in Volusia County, Florida * Lake Angela, in Lyon Township, Oakland County, Michigan * Lake Angela, the reservoir impounded by the source dam of the South Yuba River Fiction * Ange ...

* 2003:

Lothar Baier Lothar Baier (16 May 1942 – 11 July 2004) was a German author, publisher, translator and co-founder of the Literary periodical Text+Kritik. Baier was born in Karlsruhe. He was accepted as one of the most profound German thinkers of the Francopho ...

* 2005:

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 f ...

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