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
- 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
- ^ a b c "Leipzig Book Award for European Understanding". City of Leipzig. Retrieved 9 December 2016.
- ^ "Kulturpreise.de : Leipziger Buchpreis zur Europäischen Verständigung". Handbuch der Kulturpreise – Handbook of Cultural Awards (in German). Retrieved 4 January 2021.
- ^ "Leipziger Buchpreis zur Europäischen Verständigung". Stadt Leipzig (in German). Retrieved 4 January 2021.
- ^ "Leipziger Buchpreis". Literaturpreis Gewinner (in German). 28 July 2011. 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). Retrieved 4 January 2021.
- ^ Fitzek; Rossmann; Link; Suter; Heidenreich (5 December 2019). "Leipziger Buchpreis zur Europäischen Verständigung geht an László Földényi". buchreport (in German). 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. Retrieved 4 January 2021.
- ^ "Leipziger Buchpreis zur Europäischen Verständigung: Karl-Markus Gauß wird ausgezeichnet". Der Spiegel (in German). 6 December 2021. Retrieved 6 December 2021.
- ^ "Leipzig: Maria Stepanova erhält Buchpreis zur Europäischen Verständigung 2023". MDR.DE (in German). 7 December 2022. Retrieved 7 December 2022.
- ^ "Omri Boehm wird mit Leipziger Buchpreis zur Europäischen Verständigung geehrt". Der Spiegel (in German). 18 December 2023. Retrieved 19 December 2023.
External links
- Official website (in English and German)
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