Thomas Mann Prize (''German'': Thomas-Mann-Preis) is a literary prize of
Germany
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. In full the title is "Thomas Mann Prize of the city of Lübeck and the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts". It is given in alternate years in Lübeck and in Munich.
The award is the product of a merger of two prizes in 2010, the Thomas Mann Preis der Hansestadt Lübeck (Thomas Mann Prize Lübeck) and the
Großer Literaturpreis (Great Literature Prize) of the
Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts Bavarian is the adjective form of the German state of Bavaria, and refers to people of ancestry from Bavaria.
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* Bavarii, a Germanic tribe
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. The Thomas Mann Prize Lübeck was first awarded in 1975; the Great Literature Prize was first awarded in 1950.
The prize money is €25,000.
Recipients
![Thomas-Mann-Preis 2019 an Claudio Magris - 01](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b0/Thomas-Mann-Preis_2019_an_Claudio_Magris_-_01.jpg)
* 2010:
Christa Wolf
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Barbara Gard ...
* 2011:
Jan Assmann
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Life and works
Assmann studied Egyptology and classical archaeology in Munich, Heidelberg, Paris, and Göttingen. In 1966–67, he was a fellow of the German ...
* 2012:
Thomas Hürlimann Thomas Hürlimann (born 21 December 1950) is a Swiss playwright and novelist.
Biography
Hürlimann was born in Zug, Switzerland. He is a son of the former government and federal councilor (Minister) Hans Hürlimann. He studied philosophy in Züric ...
* 2013:
Juli Zeh
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Biography
Her first book was ''Adler und Engel'' (translated into English as ''Eagles and Angels'' by Christine Slenczka), which won the ...
* 2014:
Rüdiger Safranski
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Life
From 1965 to 1972, Safranski studied philosophy (among others with Theodor W. Adorno), German literature, history and history of art at Goethe University in ...
* 2015:
Lars Gustafsson
* 2016:
Jenny Erpenbeck
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Life
Born in East Berlin, Erpenbeck is the daughter of the physicist, philosopher and writer John Erpenbeck and th ...
* 2017:
Brigitte Kronauer
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* 2018:
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 ...
* 2019:
Claudio Magris
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Life
Magris graduated from the University of Turin, where he studied German studies, and has been a ...
* 2020:
Nora Bossong
* 2021:
Norbert Gstrein
* 2022:
Jonathan Franzen
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References
External links
Thomas Mann Prize official website
Thomas Mann Prize – Buddenbrookhaus
German literary awards
Awards established in 2010
Awards established in 1975
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