Leipzig Book Award for European Understanding
The City of Leipzig awards the Leipzig Book Award for European Understanding (Leipziger Buchpreis zur Europäischen Verständigung) which has been given since 1994.[1][2] The award is endowed with prize money of 20,000 Euro and is presented every year during the official opening of Leipzig Book Fair.[1]
Recipients
[edit]- 1994 Ryszard Kapuściński (Poland)
- 1994 Eckhard Thiele (Germany)
- 1995 Péter Nádas (Hungary)
- 1995 Svetlana Geier (Germany)
- 1996 Aleksandar Tišma (Serbia)
- 1996 Fritz Mierau (Germany)
- 1997 Imre Kertész (Hungary)
- 1997 Antonín J. Liehm (Czech Republic)
- 1998 Svetlana Alexievich (Belarus)
- 1998 Ilma Rakusa (Switzerland)
- 1998 Andreas Tretner (Germany)
- 1999 Eric Hobsbawm (United Kingdom)
- 1999 Nenad Popović (Serbia)
- 2000 Hanna Krall (Poland)
- 2000 Peter Urban (Germany)
- 2001 Claudio Magris (Italy)
- 2001 Norbert Randow (Germany)
- 2002 Bora Ćosić (Serbia)
- 2002 Ludvík Kundera (Czech Republic)
- 2003 Hugo Claus (Belgium)
- 2003 Barbara Antkowiak (Germany)
- 2004 Dževad Karahasan (Bosnia and Herzegovina)
- 2004 Gábor Csordás (Hungary)
- 2005 Slavenka Drakulić (Croatia)
- 2006 Yurii Andrukhovych (Ukraine)
- 2007 Gerd Koenen (Germany)
- 2007 Michail Ryklin (Russia)
- 2008 Geert Mak (Netherlands)
- 2009 Karl Schlögel (Germany)
- 2010 György Dalos (Hungary)
- 2011 Martin Pollack (Austria)
- 2012 Ian Kershaw (United Kingdom)
- 2012 Timothy D. Snyder (United States)
- 2013 Klaus-Michael Bogdal (Germany)
- 2014 Pankaj Mishra (India)
- 2015 Mircea Cărtărescu (Romania)[5]
- 2016 Heinrich August Winkler (Germany)
- 2017 Mathias Énard (France)
- 2018 Åsne Seierstad (Norway)
- 2019 Masha Gessen (United States/Russia)[6]
- 2020 László F. Földényi (Hungary)[7]
- 2021 Johnny Pitts (United Kingdom/United States)[8][9]
- 2022 Karl-Markus Gauß (Austria)[10]
- 2023 Maria Stepanova (Russia)[11]
- 2024 Omri Boehm (Germany/Israel)[12]
References
[edit]- ^ a b c "Leipzig Book Award for European Understanding". City of Leipzig. Archived from the original on 22 September 2024. Retrieved 9 December 2016.
- ^ "Kulturpreise.de : Leipziger Buchpreis zur Europäischen Verständigung". Handbuch der Kulturpreise – Handbook of Cultural Awards (in German). Archived from the original on 7 January 2021. Retrieved 4 January 2021.
- ^ "Leipziger Buchpreis zur Europäischen Verständigung". Stadt Leipzig (in German). Archived from the original on 26 March 2019. Retrieved 4 January 2021.
- ^ "Leipziger Buchpreis". Literaturpreis Gewinner (in German). 28 July 2011. Archived from the original on 22 September 2024. Retrieved 4 January 2021.
- ^ "Leipziger Buchpreis zur Europäischen Verständigung geht an Mircea Cartarescu". LVZ – Leipziger Volkszeitung (in German). 5 December 2014. Retrieved 4 January 2021.
- ^ "Masha Gessen erhält Leipziger Buchpreis zur Europäischen Verständigung". Zeit Online (in German). Archived from the original on 22 September 2024. Retrieved 4 January 2021.
- ^ Fitzek; Rossmann; Link; Suter; Heidenreich (5 December 2019). "Leipziger Buchpreis zur Europäischen Verständigung geht an László Földényi". buchreport (in German). Archived from the original on 6 January 2021. Retrieved 4 January 2021.
- ^ "Leipziger Buchpreis zur Europäischen Verständigung für Johny Pitts". mdr.de (in German). 8 December 2020. Retrieved 4 January 2021.
- ^ "Johny Pitts erhält Leipziger Buchpreis zur Europäischen Verständigung – Kultur". Der Spiegel (in German). 8 December 2020. Archived from the original on 3 January 2021. Retrieved 4 January 2021.
- ^ "Leipziger Buchpreis zur Europäischen Verständigung: Karl-Markus Gauß wird ausgezeichnet". Der Spiegel (in German). 6 December 2021. Archived from the original on 6 December 2021. Retrieved 6 December 2021.
- ^ "Leipzig: Maria Stepanova erhält Buchpreis zur Europäischen Verständigung 2023". MDR.DE (in German). 7 December 2022. Archived from the original on 7 December 2022. Retrieved 7 December 2022.
- ^ "Omri Boehm wird mit Leipziger Buchpreis zur Europäischen Verständigung geehrt". Der Spiegel (in German). 18 December 2023. Archived from the original on 18 December 2023. Retrieved 19 December 2023.
External links
[edit]- Official website (in English and German)