The Uwe Johnson Prize is an annual German literary award. The award is named after the writer

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(1934–1984) and was first awarded in 1994. It is awarded for "outstanding literary works in which there are links to the poetics of Uwe Johnson". Alternating the main prize for a work and the Förderpreis (promotional prize) for the best debut is awarded by the Mecklenburg Literature Society, the Nordkurier (1994–2016), the Berlin law firm Gentz und Partner (since 2012) and the

Humanistischer Verband Deutschlands The Humanistischer Verband Deutschlands (English: ''Humanist Association of Germany'') is an organisation to promote and spread a secular humanist worldview and an advocate for the rights of nonreligious people. It was founded 1993 in Berlin and co ...

(since 2017). The prize is endowed with €20,000 (Förderpreis: €5,000).

Recipients

* 1994:

Kurt Drawert Kurt is a male given name of Germanic or Turkish origin. ''Kurt'' or ''Curt'' originated as short forms of the Germanic Conrad, depending on geographical usage, with meanings including counselor or advisor. In Turkish, Kurt means "Wolf" and i ...

''Spiegelland. Ein deutscher Monolog'' * 1995:

Walter Kempowski Walter Kempowski (; 29 April 1929 – 5 October 2007) was a German writer. Kempowski was known for his series of novels called ''German Chronicle'' ("Deutsche Chronik") and the monumental ''Echolot'' ("Sonar"), a collage of autobiographical repo ...

for ''Das Echolot'' * 1997:

Marcel Beyer Marcel Beyer (born 23 November 1965) is a German writer. Life Marcel Beyer was born in Tailfingen, Württemberg, and grew up in Kiel and Neuss. From 1987 to 1991 he studied German language and literature, English studies and literary studies ...

for ''Flughunde'' * 1999: Gert Neumann for ''Anschlag'' * 2003:

Norbert Gstrein Norbert Gstrein (born 1961) is an Austrian writer. He was born in Mils in Tyrol, the son of the hotelier and ski school director Norbert Gstrein (1931–1988) and Maria Gstrein, née Thurner (born 1935). He grews up with his five siblings in and ...

for ''Das Handwerk des Tötens'' * 2005: Arno Orzessek for ''Schattauers Tochter'' (Förderpreis) * 2006: for ''Späte Reise'' * 2007: Emma Braslavsky for ''Aus dem Sinn'' (Förderpreis) * 2008: Uwe Tellkamp for ''Der Turm'' * 2009: Thomas Pletzinger for ''Bestattung eines Hundes'' (Förderpreis) * 2010:

Christa Wolf Christa Wolf (; née Ihlenfeld; 18 March 1929 – 1 December 2011) was a German novelist and essayist.
Barbara Gard ...

for ''Stadt der Engel'' * 2011: Judith Zander for ''Dinge, die wir heute sagten'' (Förderpreis) * 2012:

Christoph Hein Christoph Hein (; born 8 April 1944) is a German author and translator. He grew up in the village Bad Düben near Leipzig. Being a clergyman's son and thus not allowed to attend the Erweiterte Oberschule in the GDR, he received secondary educat ...

for ''Weiskerns Nachlass'' * 2013:

Matthias Senkel Matthias is a name derived from the Greek Ματθαίος, in origin similar to Matthew. People Notable people named Matthias include the following: In religion: * Saint Matthias, chosen as an apostle in Acts 1:21–26 to replace Judas Iscariot * ...

for ''Frühe Vögel'' (Förderpreis) * 2014:

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 ...

for ''Kruso'' * 2015: Mirna Funk for ''Winternähe'' (Förderpreis) * 2016: for ''Ein Sonntagskind'' * 2017: Shida Bazyar for ''Nachts ist es leise in Teheran'' (Förderpreis) * 2018:

Ralf Rothmann Ralf Rothmann (born May 10, 1953 in Schleswig, Schleswig-Holstein) is a German novelist, poet, and dramatist. His novels have been translated into several languages with Knife Edge (''Messers Schneide'') and Young Light (''Junges Licht'') being t ...

for ''Der Gott jenes Sommers'' * 2019:

Kenah Cusanit Qena ( ar, قنا ' , locally: ; cop, ⲕⲱⲛⲏ ''Konē'') is a city in Upper Egypt, and the capital of the Qena Governorate. Situated on the east bank of the Nile, it was known in antiquity as Kaine (Greek Καινή, meaning "new (city)"; ...

for ''Babel'' (Förderpreis) * 2020:

Irina Liebmann Irina Liebmann is a German journalist-author and sinologist of Russo-German provenance. She has won a number of important literary prizes: the most significant of these, probably, was the 2008 Leipzig Book Fair non-fiction Prize, awarded for ...

for ''Die Große Hamburger Straße'' * 2021: Benjamin Quaderer for ''Für immer die Alpen'' (Förderpreis) * 2022:

Jenny Erpenbeck Jenny Erpenbeck (born 12 March 1967) is a German writer and opera director, recipient of the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize. Life Born in East Berlin, Erpenbeck is the daughter of the physicist, philosopher and writer John Erpenbeck and th ...

for ''Kairos''

References

External links

* {{official, https://www.uwejohnsonpreis.de/ German literary awards Awards established in 1994