The Solothurner Literaturpreis is a
literary award for a literary achievement by a German language writer.
Awarded since 1994, the annual prize is 15,000
Swiss francs.
It is named after the city of
Solothurn
Solothurn ( , ; french: Soleure ; it, Soletta ; rm, ) is a town, a municipality, and the capital of the canton of Solothurn in Switzerland. It is located in the north-west of Switzerland on the banks of the Aare and on the foot of the Weissens ...
in Switzerland.
Winners
*1994:
Monika Maron
Monika Maron (born 3 June 1941 in Berlin) is a German author, formerly of the German Democratic Republic.
Biography
She moved in 1951 from West to East Berlin with her stepfather, Karl Maron, the GDR Minister of the Interior. She studied theatre ...
*1995:
Wilhelm Genazino
*1996:
Klaus Merz
*1997:
Christoph Ransmayr
Christoph Ransmayr (born 20 March 1954) is an Austrian writer.
Life
Born in Wels, Upper Austria, Ransmayr grew up in Roitham near Gmunden and the Traunsee. From 1972 to 1978 he studied philosophy and ethnology in Vienna. He worked there as ...
*1998:
Thomas Hürlimann
*1999:
Birgit Vanderbeke
*2000:
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 ...
*2001:
Anna Mitgutsch
*2002:
Erich Hackl
*2003:
Hanna Johansen
*2004:
Barbara Honigmann
Barbara Honigmann (born 12 February 1949 in East Berlin) is a German author, artist and theater director.
Honigmann is the daughter of Jewish emigrant parents, who returned to East Berlin in 1947 after a period of exile in Great Britain. Her pa ...
*2005:
Kathrin Röggla
*2006:
Matthias Zschokke
*2007:
*2008:
Jenny Erpenbeck
*2009:
Juli Zeh
*2010:
Ulrike Draesner
*2011:
Peter Bichsel
*2012:
Annette Pehnt
*2013:
Franz Hohler
*2014:
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 ...
*2015:
Thomas Hettche
*2016:
*2017:
Terézia Mora
*2018:
Peter Stamm
Peter Stamm (born 18 January 1963 in Münsterlingen) is a Swiss writer. His prize-winning books have been translated into more than thirty languages. For his entire body of work and his accomplishments in fiction, he was short-listed for the ...
*2019:
Karen Duve
*2020:
Monika Helfer
Monika Helfer (born 18 October 1947, in Au) is an Austrian writer. She was invested with the Austrian Decoration for Science and Art in 2016. She was the recipient of the Solothurner Literaturpreis in 2020, and the Schubart-Literaturpreis in 20 ...
*2021:
* 2022: ''not awarded''
See also
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German literature
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List of literary awards
This list of literary awards from around the world is an index to articles about notable literary awards.
International awards
All nationalities & multiple languages eligible (in chronological order)
* Nobel Prize in Literature – since 1901 ...
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List of poetry awards
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List of years in literature
This article gives a chronological list of years in literature (descending order), with notable publications listed with their respective years and a small selection of notable events. The time covered in individual years covers Renaissance, Baroq ...
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List of years in poetry
References
External links
{{official, http://www.solothurner-literaturpreis.ch/
Swiss literary awards
Canton of Solothurn
Awards established in 1994
1994 establishments in Switzerland