International Literature Award (''German'': Internationaler Literaturpreis – Haus der Kulturen der Welt) is a German literary award for international prose translated into German for the first time.International Literature Award official website. The prize has been awarded annually by the
Haus der Kulturen der Welt
The Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW), in English House of the World's Cultures, in Berlin is Germany's national center for the presentation and discussion of international contemporary arts, with a special focus on non-European cultures and so ...
and the foundation “Elementarteilchen” since 2009. Winning authors receive €20,000 and the translators €15,000. The award has compared as the German near-equivalent of the
Best Translated Book Award
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or
Independent Foreign Fiction Prize
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.
Winners and shortlists
Blue Ribbon () = winner
2009
* Author
Daniel Alarcón
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Marie NDiaye
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and translator Claudia Kalscheuer for ''Drei starke Frauen'' (Orig: ''Trois femmes puissantes'') (Suhrkamp Verlag)
Jaume Cabré
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He was born in Terrassa. He graduated in Catalan Philology from the Univ ...
, '' Jo confesso'' (Catalan, trans. Kirsten Brandt and Petra Zickmann)
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Mircea Cărtărescu
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Biography
Born in Bucharest in 1956, he attended Cantemir Vodă National College during the early 1970s. During his sch ...
, ''Corpul'' (Romanian, trans. Gerhardt Csejka and Ferdinand Leopold)
* Nedim Gürsel, ''Allah’ ιn Kιzlarι'' (Turkish, trans. Barbara Yurtdas)
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Academia
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, ''C.'' (English, trans. Bernhard Robben)
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Péter Nádas
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Biography
He was born in Budapest into a Jewish family, the son of László Nádas (originally Nussbaum) and Klára Tauber. After the takeover of the Hunga ...
, ''Párhuzamos történetek'' (Hungarian, trans. Christina Viragh)
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Téa Obreht
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, ''The Tiger’s Wife'' (English, trans.
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2013
* Andrej Bitow, ''Prepodavatel' simmetrii'' (Russian, trans. Rosemarie Tietze)
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Teju Cole
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, ''Open City'' (English, trans. Christine Richter-Nilsson)
* Lloyd Jones, ''Hand Me Down World'' (English, trans. Grete Osterwald)
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Valeria Luiselli
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Zakhar Prilepin
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, ''Sankya'' (Russian, trans. Erich Klein and Susanne Macht)
* Jean Rolin, ''Un chien mort après lui'' (French, trans. Holger Fock and Sabine Müller)
2014
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Personal life
Zsófia Bán grew up in Rio de Janeiro as the child of Jewish parents. In 1969, she and her fa ...
, ''Amikor még csak az állatok éltek'' (Hungarian, trans. Terézia Mora)
* Georgi Gospodinov, ''Fizika na tagata'' (Bulgarian, trans. Alexander Sitzmann)
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Mohsin Hamid
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, ''How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia'' (English, trans. Eike Schönfeld)
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Bernardo Kucinski
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, ''K.'' (Portuguese, trans. Sarita Brandt)
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Dany Laferrière
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Life
Bo ...
, ''L'énigme du retour'' (French, trans. Beate Thill)
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Madeleine Thien
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, ''Dogs at the Perimeter'' (English, trans. Almuth Carstens)
2015
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NoViolet Bulawayo
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, ''We Need New Names'' (English, trans. Miriam Mandelkow)
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Patrick Chamoiseau
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, ''L'empreinte à Crusoé'' (French, trans. Beate Thill)
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Daša Drndić
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Amos Oz
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, ''Habesora al pi Jehuda'' (Hebrew, trans. Mirjam Pressler)
* Krisztina Tóth, ''Akvárium'' (Hungarian, trans. György Buda)
2016
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Shumona Sinha
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In her interviews for the French media, ...
, ''Assommons les pauvres!'' (French, trans. Lena Müller)
2017
* Fiston Mwanza Mujila, ''Tram 83'' (trans. from French by Katharina Meyer and Lena Müller)