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The German Book Prize was launched in 2005 and is regarded as the equivalent of the Man Booker Prize, seeking ‘the best novel written in German’ in each publishing year. The spokesperson of the jury 2008, Rainer Moritz, commented on the breadth and diversity of the submissions: ‘Overall it strikes me that contemporary literature is opening up and showing more confidence again.’
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Alina Bronsky, Die schärfsten Gerichte der tatarischen Küche (Kiepenheuer & Witsch)*
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Jan Faktor, Georgs Sorgen um die Vergangenheit oder im Reich des heiligen Hodensack-Bimbams von Prag (Kiepenheuer & Witsch)
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Nino Haratischwili, Juja (Verbrecher)
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Thomas Hettche, Die Liebe der Väter (Kiepenheuer & Witsch)
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Michael Kleeberg, Das amerikanische Hospital (DVA)
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Michael Köhlmeier, Madalyn (Hanser)
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Thomas Lehr, September. Fata Morgana (Hanser)
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Kristof Magnusson, Das war ich nicht (Verlag Antje Kunstmann)
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Andreas Maier, Das Zimmer (Suhrkamp)
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Olga Martynova, Sogar Papageien überleben uns (Droschl)
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Martin Mosebach, Was davor geschah (Hanser)
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Melinda Nadj Abonji, Tauben fliegen auf (Jung und Jung)
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Doron Rabinovici, Andernorts (Suhrkamp)
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Hans Joachim Schädlich, Kokoschkins Reise (Rowohlt)
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Peter Wawerzinek, Rabenliebe (Galiani Berlin)
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Judith Zander, Dinge, die wir heute sagten (Deutscher Taschenbuchverlag)
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Joachim Zelter, Der Ministerpräsident (Klöpfer & Meyer)
Extracts from the longlisted novels are available free of charge at www.libreka.de.
The shortlist is announced on 8 September and the winner announced on 4 October at the awards ceremony in Frankfurt. See www.deutscher-buchpreis.de
* Reviewed in NBG
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Awarded every year in April.
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Jan Faktor, Georgs Sorgen um die Vergangenheit (Kiepenheuer & Witsch)
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Helene Hegemann, Axolotl Roadkill (Ullstein)
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Georg Klein, Roman unserer Kindheit (Rowohlt)
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Lutz Seiler, Die Zeitwaage (Suhrkamp)
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Anne Weber, Luft und Liebe (S. Fischer)
Georg Klein won the award.
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Michael Hampe, Das vollkommene Leben. Vier Meditationen über das Glück (Carl Hanser)
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Steffen Martus, Die Brüder Grimm (Rowohlt Berlin)
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Ulrich Raulff, Kreis ohne Meister. Stefan Georges Nachleben (C.H. Beck)
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Frank Schirrmacher, Payback (Blessing Verlag)
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Wolfgang Ullrich, Raffinierte Kunst. Übung vor Reproduktionen (Klaus Wagenbach)
Ulrich Raulff won the award.
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Terézia Mora
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Artur Becker
- Saša Stanišic
- Magdalena Sadlon
- Zsuzsanna Gahse
- Feridun Zaimoglu
- Asfa-Wossen Asserate
- Ilma Rakusa
- Said
- Zehra Çirek
- Ilija Trojanow
- Emine Sevgi Özdamar
- Natascha Wodin
- Güney Dal
- Yoko Tawada
- György Dalos
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Two German titles were longlisted for this year’s prize:
- Julia Franck, The Blind Side of the Heart, translated by Anthea Bell (Harvill Secker)
- Rafik Schami, The Dark Side of Love, translated by Anthea Bell (Arabia Books)
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Awarded annually in November.
Ilma Rakusa won the Swiss Book Prize 2009 for her poetic memoir Mehr Meer, reviewed here.
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were awarded to Roman Graf for his first novel, Herr Blanc, reviewed here.
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Awarded annually in January.
Austrian author Clemens J. Setz won the Bremen Literature Prize 2010.
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