Leipzig Book Fair Prize
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The Leipzig Book Fair Prize (German: Preis der Leipziger Buchmesse) is awarded annually during the Leipzig Book Fair
to outstanding newly released literary works in the categories "Fiction", "Non-fiction" and "Translation". The winner in each category is awarded € 15,000.
Leipzig Book Fair
The Leipzig Book Fair is the second largest book fair in Germany after the Frankfurt Book Fair. The fair takes place annually over four days at the Leipzig Trade Fairground in the northern part of Leipzig, Saxony...
to outstanding newly released literary works in the categories "Fiction", "Non-fiction" and "Translation". The winner in each category is awarded € 15,000.
2005
- Fiction: Terézia MoraTerézia MoraTerézia Mora is a Hungarian writer, screenwriter and translator.Terézia Mora was born in Sopron, Hungary but moved to Germany after the political changes in Hungary in 1990. She studied Hungarian studies and drama at the Humboldt University in Berlin and trained as a screenwriter at the Deutsche...
, Alle Tage - Non-fiction: Rüdiger SafranskiRüdiger SafranskiRüdiger Safranski is a German philosopher and author.- Life :...
, Schiller oder die Erfindung des Deutschen Idealismus - Translation: Thomas Eichhorn, Translation of Fredy Neptune by Les MurrayLes Murray (poet)Leslie Allan Murray, AO , known as Les Murray, is an Australian poet, anthologist and critic. His career spans over forty years, and he has published nearly 30 volumes of poetry, as well as two verse novels and collections of his prose writings...
2006
- Fiction: Ilija TrojanowIlija Trojanowthumb|Ilija Trojanow Ilija Trojanow , is a Bulgarian-German writer, translator and publisher.-Life:...
, Der Weltensammler - Non-fiction: Franz SchuhFranz Schuh (writer)Franz Schuh is an Austrian novelist, literary critic and, above all, essayist in the tradition of Karl Kraus and Alfred Polgar. Schuh was born, and lives, in Vienna, where, just like his predecessors, he prefers to write in one of the traditional coffeehouses.- Select bibliography :* Liebe, Macht...
, Schwere Vorwürfe. Schmutzige Wäsche - Translation: Ragni Maria Gschwend, Translation of Gli esordi by Antonio MorescoAntonio MorescoAntonio Moresco is an Italian writer. Only having started to publish his works at the age of 46, he is the author of numerous works and is worshipped by younger writers.-Works:*Clandestinità...
2007
- Fiction: Ingo SchulzeIngo SchulzeIngo Schulze is a German writer born in Dresden in former East Germany. He studied classical philology at the University of Jena for five years, and, until the German reunification, was an assistant director at the State Theatre in Altenburg 45 km south of Leipzig for two years...
, Handy - Non-fiction: Saul FriedländerSaul FriedländerSaul Friedländer is an award-winning Israeli historian and currently a professor of history at UCLA.-Biography:...
, Das Dritte Reich und die Juden 2. Die Jahre der Vernichtung 1939–1945 (in English: The Years of Extermination: Nazi Germany and the Jews, 1939-1945) - Translation: Swetlana Geier, Translation of Подросток (English: The Raw YouthThe Raw YouthThe Raw Youth, also published as The Adolescent or An Accidental Family, , is a novel by Russian writer Fyodor Dostoyevsky, first published in 1875...
) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
2008
- Fiction: Clemens MeyerClemens MeyerClemens Meyer is a German writer. His studies at the German Literature Institute, Leipzig, were interrupted by a spell in a youth detention centre, and he has worked as a security guard, forklift driver and construction worker.He won a number of prizes for his first novel Als wir träumten ,...
, Die Nacht, die Lichter - Non-fiction: Irina Liebmann, Wäre es schön? Es wäre schön!
- Translation: Fritz Vogelgsang, Translation of Tirant lo BlancTirant lo BlancTirant lo Blanch or Tirant lo Blanc is a romance written by the Valencian knight Joanot Martorell and published in Valencia in 1490. The title means "Tirant the White" and is the name of the main character in the romance...
by Joanot MartorellJoanot MartorellJoanot Martorell was a Valencian knight and the author of the novel Tirant lo Blanch, which is written in Valencian...
2009
- Fiction: Sibylle Lewitscharoff, Apostoloff
- Non-fiction: Herfried MünklerHerfried MünklerHerfried Münkler is Professor of Political Theory at Humboldt University in Berlin. Münkler is a regular commentator on global affairs in the German media and author of numerous books on the history of political ideas, on state building and on the theory of war, such as "Machiavelli" , "Gewalt und...
, Die Deutschen und ihre Mythen - Translation: Eike Schönfeld, Translation of Humboldt's GiftHumboldt's GiftHumboldt's Gift is a 1975 novel by Saul Bellow, which won the 1976 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and contributed to Bellow's winning the Nobel Prize in Literature the same year....
by Saul BellowSaul BellowSaul Bellow was a Canadian-born Jewish American writer. For his literary contributions, Bellow was awarded the Pulitzer Prize, the Nobel Prize for Literature, and the National Medal of Arts...
2010
- Fiction: Clemens J. Setz, Die Liebe zur Zeit des Mahlstädter Kindes
- Non-fiction: Henning Ritter, Notizhefte
- Translation: Barbara Conrad, translation of War and PeaceWar and PeaceWar and Peace is a novel by the Russian author Leo Tolstoy, first published in 1869. The work is epic in scale and is regarded as one of the most important works of world literature...