The Leipzig Book Fair Prize () is a literary award assigned annually during the
Leipzig Book Fair
The Leipzig Book Fair (german: Leipziger Buchmesse) is the second largest book fair in Germany after the Frankfurt Book Fair. The fair takes place annually over four days at the Leipzig Trade Fairground in the northern part of Leipzig, Saxony. ...
to outstanding newly released literary works in the categories "Fiction", "Non-fiction" and "Translation".
Website of the prize
/ref> The Leipzig Book Fair Prize has been awarded since the Deutscher Bücherpreis was ceased in 2005, and is one of the most important literary awards in Germany.
Leipzig Book Fair Prize
2005
* Fiction: Terézia Mora, ''Alle Tage''
* Non-fiction: Rüdiger Safranski
Rüdiger Safranski (born 1 January 1945) is a German philosopher and author.
Life
From 1965 to 1972, Safranski studied philosophy (among others with Theodor W. Adorno), German literature, history and history of art at Goethe University i ...
, ''Schiller oder die Erfindung des Deutschen Idealismus''
* Translation: Thomas Eichhorn, for Les Murray's ''Fredy Neptune''
2006
* Fiction: Ilija Trojanow, ''Der Weltensammler''
* Non-fiction: Franz Schuh, ''Schwere Vorwürfe. Schmutzige Wäsche''
* Translation: Ragni Maria Gschwend, for Antonio Moresco's ''Gli esordi''
2007
* Fiction: Ingo Schulze, ''Handy''
* Non-fiction: Saul Friedländer
Saul Friedländer (; born October 11, 1932) is a Czech-Jewish-born historian and a professor emeritus of history at UCLA.
Biography
Saul Friedländer was born in Prague to a family of German-speaking Jews. He was raised in France and lived thro ...
, ''Das Dritte Reich und die Juden 2. Die Jahre der Vernichtung 1939–1945'' (in English: '' The Years of Extermination: Nazi Germany and the Jews, 1939-1945'')
* Translation: Svetlana Geier, for Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky (, ; rus, Фёдор Михайлович Достоевский, Fyódor Mikháylovich Dostoyévskiy, p=ˈfʲɵdər mʲɪˈxajləvʲɪdʑ dəstɐˈjefskʲɪj, a=ru-Dostoevsky.ogg, links=yes; 11 November 18219 ...
's ''Подросток'' (English: '' The Raw Youth'')
2008
* Fiction: Clemens Meyer
Clemens Meyer (born 1977) is a German writer. He is the author of ''Als wir träumten'' (''As We Were Dreaming'', 2006), ''Die Nacht, die Lichter'' (''All the Lights'', 2008), ''Gewalten'' (''Acts of Violence'', 2010), ''Im Stein'' (''Bricks an ...
, ''Die Nacht, die Lichter''
* Non-fiction: Irina Liebmann, ''Wäre es schön? Es wäre schön!''
* Translation: Fritz Vogelgsang, for Joanot Martorell
Joanot Martorell (; c. 1410 – 1465) was a Valencian knight and writer, best known for authoring the novel '' Tirant lo Blanch'', written in Valencian and published at Valencia in 1490. This novel is often regarded as one of the peaks of the ...
's '' Tirant lo Blanc''
2009
* Fiction: Sibylle Lewitscharoff, ''Apostoloff''
* Non-fiction: Herfried Münkler, ''Die Deutschen und ihre Mythen''
* Translation: Eike Schönfeld, for Saul Bellow
Saul Bellow (born Solomon Bellows; 10 July 1915 – 5 April 2005) was a Canadian-born American writer. For his literary work, Bellow was awarded the Pulitzer Prize, the Nobel Prize for Literature, and the National Medal of Arts. He is the only w ...
's ''Humboldt's Gift
''Humboldt's Gift'' is a 1975 novel by Canadian-American author Saul Bellow. It won the 1976 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and contributed to Bellow's winning the Nobel Prize in Literature the same year.
Plot
The novel, which Bellow initially inte ...
''
2010
*Fiction: Georg Klein, ''Roman unserer Kindheit''
*Non-fiction: Ulrich Raulff, ''Kreis ohne Meister. Stefan Georges Nachleben''
*Translation: Ulrich Blumenbach, for David Foster Wallace
David Foster Wallace (February 21, 1962 – September 12, 2008) was an American novelist, short story writer, essayist, and university professor of English and creative writing. Wallace is widely known for his 1996 novel '' Infinite Jest'', whi ...
's ''Unendlicher Spaß''
2011
* Fiction: Clemens J. Setz, ''Die Liebe zur Zeit des Mahlstädter Kindes''
* Non-fiction: Henning Ritter, ''Notizhefte''
* Translation: Barbara Conrad, for Leo Tolstoy
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's ''War and Peace
''War and Peace'' (russian: Война и мир, translit=Voyna i mir; pre-reform Russian: ; ) is a literary work by the Russian author Leo Tolstoy that mixes fictional narrative with chapters on history and philosophy. It was first published ...
''
2012
* Fiction: Wolfgang Herrndorf, ''Sand
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* Non-fiction: Jörg Baberowski, ''Verbrannte Erde. Stalins Herrschaft der Gewalt''
* Translation: Christina Viragh, for Péter Nádas
Péter Nádas (born 14 October 1942) is a Hungarian writer, playwright, and essayist.
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 ...
' '' Parallelgeschichten''
2013
* Fiction: David Wagner, ''Leben''
* Non-fiction: Helmut Böttiger, ''Die Gruppe 47. Als die deutsche Literatur Geschichte schrieb''
* Translation: Eva Hesse
Eva Hesse (January 11, 1936 – May 29, 1970) was a German-born American sculptor known for her pioneering work in materials such as latex, fiberglass, and plastics. She is one of the artists who ushered in the postminimal art movement in the 196 ...
, for Ezra Pound's ''The Cantos
''The Cantos'' by Ezra Pound is a long, incomplete poem in 120 sections, each of which is a ''canto''. Most of it was written between 1915 and 1962, although much of the early work was abandoned and the early cantos, as finally published, date ...
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2014
* Fiction: 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 ...
, ''Vor dem Fest''
* Non-fiction: Helmut Lethen, ''Der Schatten des Fotografen''
* Translation: Robin Detje, for William T. Vollmann's ''Europe Central''
2015
* Fiction: Jan Wagner, ''Regentonnenvariationen''
* Non-fiction: Philipp Ther, ''Die neue Ordnung auf dem alten Kontinent''
* Translation: Mirjam Pressler
Mirjam Pressler, born Mirjam Gunkel (18 June 1940 – 16 January 2019) was a German novelist and translator. Being the author of more than 30 children's and teenage books, she also translated into German more than 300 works by other writers from ...
, for Amos Oz
Amos Oz ( he, עמוס עוז; born Amos Klausner; 4 May 1939 – 28 December 2018) was an Israeli writer, novelist, journalist, and intellectual. He was also a professor of Hebrew literature at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. From 1967 onw ...
's ''Judas''
2016
* Fiction: Guntram Vesper: ''Frohburg''
* Non-fiction: Jürgen Goldstein: ''Georg Forster. Zwischen Freiheit und Naturgewalt''
* Translation: Brigitte Döbert for Bora Ćosić
Bora Ćosić (born 5 April 1932) is a Serbian, Croatian and Yugoslav novelist, essayist, translator, public intellectual, and dissident. He wrote about 50 books, as well as several theater plays, which were played with great success in the Belgr ...
’s ''Die Tutoren''
2017
* Fiction: Natascha Wodin: ''Sie kam aus Mariupol''
* Non-fiction: Barbara Stollberg-Rilinger
Barbara Stollberg-Rilinger FBA (born 17 July 1955 in Bergisch Gladbach) is a German historian. She mainly researches the early modern period and has held the chair for early modern history at the University of Münster. Stollberg-Rilinger is o ...
: ''Maria Theresia. Die Kaiserin in ihrer Zeit''
* Translation: Eva Lüdi Kong: a translation of Chinese popular folk tales and legends, ''Journey to the West
''Journey to the West'' () is a Chinese novel published in the 16th century during the Ming dynasty and attributed to Wu Cheng'en. It is regarded as one of the greatest Classic Chinese Novels, and has been described as arguably the most popul ...
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2018
* Fiction: Esther Kinsky: ''Hain. Geländeroman''
* Non-fiction: Karl Schlögel: ''Das sowjetische Jahrhundert. Archäologie einer untergegangenen Welt''
* Translation: Sabine Stöhr and Juri Durkot: for Serhij Zhadan’s ''Internat''
2019
* Fiction: Anke Stelling: ''Schäfchen im Trockenen''Harald Jähner
Harald Jähner (born March 26, 1953) is a German journalist and author. Since 2011 he has been an honorary professor of cultural journalism at the Berlin University of the Arts.
Biography
Jähner studied literature, history and art history in ...
: ''Wolfszeit''
* Translation: Eva Ruth Wemme
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* Eva (Dynamite Entertainment), a comic book character by Dynamite Entertainment
* Eva (''Devil May Cry''), Dante's mother in t ...
: for Gabriela Adamesteanu′s ''Dimineață pierdută'' (German: ''Verlorener Morgen'')
2020
* Fiction: Lutz Seiler
Lutz Seiler (born 8 June 1963 in Gera, Thuringia) is a German poet and novelist.
Life and work
Lutz Seiler grew up in the Langenberg district of Gera, Thuringia (former East Germany). After training as a skilled building construction worker, h ...
: ''Stern 111''
2021
* Fiction: 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 ...
: ''Echos Kammern''Miklós Szentkuthy
Miklós Szentkuthy (born Miklós Pfisterer; 2 June 1908 – 18 July 1988) was one of the most prolific Hungarian writers of the 20th century. His works include numerous novels, essays, translations, and a voluminous diary spanning the years 1930 ...
(translated from Hungarian)
References
External links
Leipzig Book Fair Prize
official website
{{German literary awards
German non-fiction literary awards
German-language literary awards
Awards established in 2005
Fiction awards
Translation awards
Events in Leipzig