The Heinrich-Böll-Preis (Heinrich Böll Prize for Literature) is a literary prize of

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, awarded by the City of

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in memory of Nobel Prize winner Heinrich Böll. The prize money is €30,000. The prize is awarded "for outstanding achievements – even by still unknown authors – in the field of German-language literature".

Recipients

Source: * 1980 Hans Mayer * 1981 Peter Weiss * 1982 Wolfdietrich Schnurre * 1983 Uwe Johnson * 1984 Helmut Heißenbüttel * 1985

Hans Magnus Enzensberger Hans Magnus Enzensberger (11 November 1929 – 24 November 2022) was a German author, poet, translator, and editor. He also wrote under the pseudonyms Andreas Thalmayr, Elisabeth Ambras, Linda Quilt and Giorgio Pellizzi. Enzensberger was regarde ...

* 1986

Elfriede Jelinek Elfriede Jelinek (; born 20 October 1946) is an Austrian playwright and novelist. She is one of the most decorated authors to write in German and was awarded the 2004 Nobel Prize in Literature for her "musical flow of voices and counter-voices ...

* 1987 Ludwig Harig * 1988 * 1989 Brigitte Kronauer * 1990 Günter de Bruyn * 1991 Rainald Goetz * 1992 Hans Joachim Schädlich * 1993

Alexander Kluge Alexander Kluge (born 14 February 1932) is a German author, philosopher, academic and film director.(editor) Early life, education and early career Kluge was born in Halberstadt, Province of Saxony (now Saxony-Anhalt), Germany. After growing ...

* 1995 Jürgen Becker * 1997 W. G. Sebald * 1999 Gerhard Meier * 2001 Marcel Beyer * 2003 Anne Duden * 2005 Ralf Rothmann * 2007

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 ...

* 2009 Uwe Timm * 2011 Ulrich Peltzer * 2013 Eva Menasse * 2015

Herta Müller Herta Müller (; born 17 August 1953) is a Romanian-German novelist, poet, essayist and recipient of the 2009 Nobel Prize in Literature. She was born in Nițchidorf (; ), Timiș County in Romania; her native languages are German and Romanian. Si ...

* 2017 Ilija Trojanow * 2019 Juli Zeh * 2021 * 2023

Kathrin Röggla Kathrin Röggla (born 1971) is an Austrian writer, essayist and playwright. She was born in Salzburg and lives in Berlin since 1992 but moved to Cologne in 2020. She has written numerous prose works, including essays, as well as dramas and radio ...

References

External links

* German literary awards {{Germany-lit-award-stub