The Hermann-Hesse-Literaturpreis is a literary prize of

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in honour of German-born Swiss writer, poet and Nobel Prize winner

Hermann Hesse Hermann Karl Hesse (; 2 July 1877 – 9 August 1962) was a German-Swiss poet, novelist, and painter. His best-known works include ''Demian'', ''Steppenwolf (novel), Steppenwolf'', ''Siddhartha (novel), Siddhartha'', and ''The Glass Bead Game'', ...

. The award is presented in

Karlsruhe Karlsruhe ( , , ; South Franconian: ''Kallsruh'') is the third-largest city of the German state (''Land'') of Baden-Württemberg after its capital of Stuttgart and Mannheim, and the 22nd-largest city in the nation, with 308,436 inhabitants. ...

. The prize sum is 15,000 Euros. Previous winners include

Martin Walser Martin Walser (; born 24 March 1927) is a German writer. Life Walser was born in Wasserburg am Bodensee, on Lake Constance. His parents were coal merchants, and they also kept an inn next to the train station in Wasserburg. He described the e ...

Hubert Fichte Hubert Fichte (; 21 March 1935, Perleberg, Province of Brandenburg – 8 March 1986) was a German novelist. Life Hubert Fichte was born on 21 March 1935 in Perleberg Hospital. A few weeks after his birth his family moved to Hamburg-Lokstedt. ...

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 ...

Adolf Muschg Adolf Muschg (born 13 May 1934) is a Swiss writer and professor of literature. Muschg was a member of the Gruppe Olten. Biography Adolf Muschg was born in Zollikon, canton of Zürich, Switzerland. He studied German studies, English studies a ...

, and

Alain Claude Sulzer Alain Claude Sulzer (born 17 February 1953) is a Swiss writer and translator. He was born in Riehen, near Basel , french: link=no, Bâlois(e), it, Basilese , neighboring_municipalities= Allschwil (BL), Hégenheim (FR-68), Binningen (BL), ...

. Not to be confused with the

Calw Hermann Hesse Prize The Calw Hermann Hesse Prize is a literary prize awarded since 1990. It is named after the German-Swiss poet, novelist, and painter Hermann Hesse. Alternating every year since 2017, the International Hermann Hesse Prize of the Foundation (awarde ...

or the prize of the Internationale Hermann-Hesse-Gesellschaft (unofficial English name: ''International Hermann Hesse Society''), which was awarded for the first time in 2017.

Recipients

The following have received the prize: * 1957:

for ''Ehen in Philippsburg'' * 1962: Ernst Augustin for ''Der Kopf' * 1965:

for ''Das Waisenhaus'' * 1968:

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for ''Kants Weg vom Krieg zum Frieden'' * 1971: Mario Szenessy for ''Lauter falsche Pässe'' * 1974:

for ''Albissers Grund'' * 1977:

Dieter Kühn Dieter Kühn (born 4 July 1956 in Leipzig, Bezirk Leipzig) is a former Association football player from East Germany, who won the silver medal with the East German national team at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow, Soviet Union The ...

for ''Ich, Wolkenstein'' * 1980:

Ernst-Jürgen Dreyer Ernst-Jürgen Dreyer (20 August 1934, in Oschatz – 3 December 2011, in Neuss) was a German writer, translator, playwright and musicologist. Selected publications Prose * ''Die Spaltung'', novel, Siegburg, 1979. Berlin 1980 ** ''Die Spaltung'' ...

for ''Die Spaltung'' * 1984: Natascha Wodin for ''Die gläserne Stadt'' * 1988: Uwe Pörksen for ''Die Ermordung Kotzebues oder Kinder der Zeit'' * 1991:

Gerhard Meier Gerhard is Gerard, a name of Germanic origin and may refer to: Given name * Gerhard (bishop of Passau) (fl. 932–946), German prelate * Gerhard III, Count of Holstein-Rendsburg (1292–1340), German prince, regent of Denmark * Gerhard Barkhorn (19 ...

for ''Land der Winde'' * 1994:

for ''Der ehrliche Lügner'' * 1997:

Klaus Merz Klaus Merz, (born 3 October 1945 in Aarau, canton Aargau) is a Swiss writer. Life As a teacher (secondary school), Merz has worked in adult education. He has won several prices, e.g. the famous Hermann Hesse Prize for Literature in 1997, th ...

for ''Jakob schläft'' * 1999:

Markus Werner Markus Werner (; 27 December 1944 – 3 July 2016) was a Swiss writer, known as the author of the novels '' Zündels Abgang'' (''Zündel’s Exit''), ''Am Hang'' ('' On the Edge''), and ''Die kalte Schulter'' (''Cold Shoulder''). Life Markus Werne ...

for ''Der ägyptische Heinrich'' * 2001:

Marlene Streeruwitz Marlene Streeruwitz (born 28 June 1950) is an Austrian playwright, novelist, poet, and short story writer. Biography Born in Baden bei Wien in 1950, Streeruwitz was raised in a well-to-do family. Her father was a politician and later became mayor ...

for ''Nachwelt'' * 2003: Klaus Böldl for ''Die fernen Inseln'' * 2005:

Hans-Ulrich Treichel Prof. Dr. Hans-Ulrich Treichel (born 12 August 1952) is a Germanist, novelist and poet. His earliest published books were collections of poetry, but prose writing has become a larger part of his output since the critical and commercial success ...

for ''Menschenflug'' * 2007: Antje Rávic Strubel for ''Kältere Schichten der Luft'' * 2009:

for ''Privatstunden'' * 2012: Annette Pehnt for ''Chronik der Nähe'' * 2014:

Angelika Klüssendorf Angelika Klüssendorf (born 1958) is a German writer. She was born in Ahrensburg and raised in Leipzig, both in the German Democratic Republic (former East Germany). In 1985, she fled to West Germany where she has lived ever since. She has writt ...

for ''April'' * 2016:

Christian Kracht Christian Kracht (; born 29 December 1966) is a Swiss author. His books have been translated into more than 30 languages. Personal life Kracht was born in Saanen in the Canton of Bern, Switzerland. He attended Schule Schloss Salem in Baden-Wür ...

for '' The Dead'' (''Die Toten'') * 2018:

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 ...

for ''unsere leeren herzen. Über Literatur'' * 2020:

Iris Hanika Iris Hanika (born 1962) is a German writer. She was born in Würzburg, grew up in Bad Königshofen and has lived in Berlin since 1979, where she studied Universal and Comparative Literature at the FU Berlin. She was a regular contributor to Germa ...

for ''Echos Kammern'' * 2022: Sasha Marianna Salzmann for ''Im Menschen muss alles herrlich sein''

References

External links

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