{"id":4397,"date":"2021-08-22T10:37:35","date_gmt":"2021-08-22T07:37:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yalpertem.com\/blog\/?p=4397"},"modified":"2023-04-12T09:15:27","modified_gmt":"2023-04-12T07:15:27","slug":"some-german-literature-book-prizes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yalpertem.com\/blog\/2021\/08\/22\/some-german-literature-book-prizes\/","title":{"rendered":"German Literature Book Prizes"},"content":{"rendered":"

I took note of the recent awards for the literature written in German. Only some of them are translated to English for now.<\/p>\n

German Book Prize (Deutscher Buchpreis) [web<\/a>]<\/h4>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Year<\/strong><\/td>\nAuthor<\/strong><\/td>\nBook (DE)<\/strong><\/td>\nBook (EN)<\/strong><\/td>\nPublisher<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2022<\/td>\nKim de l’Horizon<\/td>\nBlutbuch<\/td>\n–<\/td>\nDuMont Buchverlag<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2021<\/td>\nAntje R\u00e1vik Strubel<\/td>\nBlaue Frau<\/td>\n–<\/td>\nS. Fischer Verlag<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2020<\/td>\nAnne Weber<\/td>\nAnnette, ein Heldinnenepos<\/td>\n–<\/td>\nMatthes & Seitz<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2019<\/td>\nSa\u0161a Stani\u0161i\u0107<\/td>\nHerkunft<\/td>\nWhere You Come From<\/td>\nLuchterhand Literaturverlag<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2018<\/td>\nInger-Maria Mahlke<\/td>\nArchipel<\/td>\n–<\/td>\nRowohlt<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2017<\/td>\nRobert Menasse<\/td>\nDie Hauptstadt<\/td>\nThe Capital<\/td>\nSuhrkamp<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2016<\/td>\nBodo Kirchhoff<\/td>\nWiderfahrnis<\/td>\n–<\/td>\nFrankfurter Verlagsanstalt<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Leipzig Book Fair Prize – Fiction [web<\/a>]<\/h4>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Year<\/strong><\/td>\nAuthor<\/strong><\/td>\nBook (DE)<\/strong><\/td>\nBook (EN)<\/strong><\/td>\nPublisher<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2022<\/td>\nTomer Gardi<\/td>\nEine runde Sache<\/td>\n–<\/td>\nLiteraturverlag Droschl<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2021<\/td>\nIris Hanika<\/td>\nEchos Kammern<\/td>\n–<\/td>\nLiteraturverlag Droschl<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2020<\/td>\nLutz Seiler<\/td>\nStern 111<\/td>\n–<\/td>\nSuhrkamp<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2019<\/td>\nAnke Stelling<\/td>\nSch\u00e4fchen im Trockenen<\/td>\nHigher Ground<\/td>\nVerbrecher<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2018<\/td>\nEsther Kinsky<\/td>\nHain. Gel\u00e4nderoman<\/td>\n–<\/td>\nSuhrkamp<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2017<\/td>\nNatascha Wodin<\/td>\nSie kam aus Mariupol<\/td>\n–<\/td>\nRowohlt<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2016<\/td>\nGuntram Vesper<\/td>\nFrohburg<\/td>\n–<\/td>\nSch\u00f6ffling & Co.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Swiss Book Prize [web<\/a>]<\/h4>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Year<\/strong><\/td>\nAuthor<\/strong><\/td>\nBook (DE)<\/strong><\/td>\nBook (EN)<\/strong><\/td>\nPublisher<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2021<\/td>\nKim de l’Horizon<\/td>\nBlutbuch<\/td>\n–<\/td>\nDuMont Buchverlag<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2020<\/td>\nAnna Stern<\/td>\ndas alles hier, jetzt<\/td>\n–<\/td>\nSalis<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2019<\/td>\nSibylle Berg<\/td>\nGRM. Brainfuck<\/td>\n–<\/td>\nKiWi-Taschenbuch<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2018<\/td>\nPeter Stamm<\/td>\nDie sanfte Gleichg\u00fcltigkeit der Welt<\/td>\n–<\/td>\nFISCHER Taschenbuch<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2017<\/td>\nJonas L\u00fcscher<\/td>\nKraft<\/td>\n–<\/td>\nBeck C. H.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2016<\/td>\nChristian Kracht<\/td>\nDie Toten<\/td>\nThe Dead<\/td>\nFISCHER Taschenbuch<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2015<\/td>\nMonique Schwitter<\/td>\nEins im Andern<\/td>\n–<\/td>\nFISCHER Taschenbuch<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

The Georg B\u00fcchner Prize [web<\/a>]<\/h4>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Year<\/strong><\/td>\nAuthor<\/strong><\/td>\nPraise<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2022<\/td>\nEmine Sevgi \u00d6zdamar<\/td>\nIhre Theaterst\u00fccke, Erz\u00e4hlungen und Romane verleihen der deutschen Literatur durch die Intensit\u00e4t ihres Erz\u00e4hlens und ihre herausragende Sprachkraft eine neue poetische Weite.<\/em>
\ndeepl:<\/strong> Her plays, stories and novels give German literature a new poetic breadth through the intensity of her storytelling and her outstanding power of language.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2021<\/td>\nClemens J. Setz<\/td>\nMit staunenswerter Vielseitigkeit, mit enzyklop\u00e4dischem Wissen, mit einem Reichtum der poetischen und sprachsch\u00f6pferischen Imagination demonstriert Clemens J. Setz eine radikale Zeitgenossenschaft…<\/em>
\ndeepl: <\/strong>With astonishing versatility, with encyclopaedic knowledge, with a wealth of poetic and linguistic imagination, Clemens J. Setz demonstrates a radical contemporan.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2020<\/td>\nElke Erb<\/td>\nIhr gelingt es wie keiner anderen, die Freiheit und Wendigkeit der Gedanken in der Sprache zu verwirklichen…<\/em>
\ndeepl:<\/strong> She succeeds like no other in realizing the freedom and agility of thought in language….<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2019<\/td>\nLukas B\u00e4rfuss<\/td>\n…der mit hoher Stilsicherheit und formalem Variationsreichtum stets neu und anders existentielle Grundsituationen des modernen Lebens erkundet.
\n<\/em>deepl:<\/strong> …who, with a high degree of stylistic confidence and a wealth of formal variation, constantly explores the basic existential situations of modern life in new and different ways.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2018<\/td>\nTer\u00e9zia Mora<\/td>\n…ihre eminente Gegenw\u00e4rtigkeit und lebendige Sprachkunst, die Alltagsidiom und Poesie, Drastik und Zartheit vereint.
\n<\/em>deepl: <\/strong>…her eminent presence and lively linguistic art, which combines everyday idiom and poetry, drasticness and tenderness.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2017<\/td>\nJan Wagner<\/td>\n…dessen Gedichte spielerische Sprachfreude und meisterhafte Formbeherrschung vereinen.
\n<\/em>deepl:<\/strong> …whose poems combine a playful joy of language and a masterful command of form.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2016<\/td>\nMarcel Beyer<\/td>\nSeine Texte widmen sich der Vergegenw\u00e4rtigung deutscher Vergangenheit mit derselben pr\u00e4zisen Hingabe, mit der sie dem Sound der Jetztzeit nachsp\u00fcren.
\n<\/em>deepl:<\/strong> His texts are dedicated to the visualization of the German past with the same precise devotion with which they trace the sound of the present.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2015<\/td>\nRainald Goetz<\/td>\n… der sich mit einzigartiger Intensit\u00e4t zum Chronisten der Gegenwart und ihrer Kultur gemacht hat. Er hat sie beschrieben, zur Anschauung gebracht und zu Wort kommen lassen, er hat sie gefeiert und verdammt und mit den Mitteln der Theorie analysiert.
\n<\/em>deepl:<\/strong> … who with unique intensity has made himself a chronicler of the present and its culture. He has described it, brought it to view and made it speak, he has celebrated and condemned it and analyzed it with the means of theory.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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I took note of the recent awards for the literature written in German. Only some of them are translated to English for now. German Book Prize (Deutscher Buchpreis) [web] Year Author Book (DE) Book (EN) Publisher 2022 Kim de l’Horizon Blutbuch – DuMont Buchverlag 2021 Antje R\u00e1vik Strubel Blaue Frau – S. Fischer Verlag 2020 … Continue reading German Literature Book Prizes<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[529],"tags":[681],"class_list":["post-4397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liste","tag-german-literary-prizes"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9WYIs-18V","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5729,"url":"https:\/\/yalpertem.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/13\/books-on-berlin-xvii\/","url_meta":{"origin":4397,"position":0},"title":"Books on Berlin XVII","author":"yalpertem","date":"13 December 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"Parker, J. (2016). Tales of Berlin in American Literature up to the 21st Century. 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