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Leipzig Book Fair Prize

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The Leipzig Book Fair Prize (German: Preis der Leipziger Buchmesse) is a literary award assigned annually during the Leipzig Book Fair to outstanding newly released literary works in the categories "Fiction", "Non-fiction" and "Translation". It has been called "the second most important German book-prize, after the German Book Prize". The winner in each category is awarded €15,000.

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The City of Leipzig also awards the Leipzig Book Award for European Understanding (German: Leipziger Buchpreis zur Europäischen Verständigung) which has been given since 1994.

Leipzig Book Award for European Understanding

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  • 1994 Ryszard Kapuściński (Poland)
  • 1994 Eckhard Thiele (Germany)
  • 1995 Péter Nádas (Hungary)
  • 1995 Swetlana Geier (Germany)
  • 1996 Aleksandar Tišma (Serbia)
  • 1996 Fritz Mierau (Germany)
  • 1997 Imre Kartész (Hungary)
  • 1997 Antonín J. Liehm (Czech Republic)
  • 1998 Svetlana Alexievich (Belarus)
  • 1998 Ilma Rakusa (Switzerland)
  • 1998 Andreas Tretner (Tyskland)
  • 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)
  • 2016 Heinrich August Winkler (Germany)
  • 2005

  • Fiction: Terézia Mora, Alle Tage
  • Non-fiction: Rüdiger Safranski, Schiller oder die Erfindung des Deutschen Idealismus
  • Translation: Thomas Eichhorn, for Les Murray's Fredy Neptune
  • 2006

  • Fiction: Ilija Trojanow, Der Weltensammler
  • Non-fiction: Franz Schuh, Schwere Vorwürfe. Schmutzige Wäsche
  • Translation: Ragni Maria Gschwend, for Antonio Moresco's Gli esordi
  • 2007

  • Fiction: Ingo Schulze, Handy
  • Non-fiction: Saul Friedländer, 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: Svetlana Geier, for Fyodor Dostoyevsky's Подросток (English: The Raw Youth)
  • 2008

  • Fiction: Clemens Meyer, Die Nacht, die Lichter
  • Non-fiction: Irina Liebmann, Wäre es schön? Es wäre schön!
  • Translation: Fritz Vogelgsang, for Joanot Martorell's Tirant lo Blanc
  • 2009

  • Fiction: Sibylle Lewitscharoff, Apostoloff
  • Non-fiction: Herfried Münkler, Die Deutschen und ihre Mythen
  • Translation: Eike Schönfeld, for Saul Bellow's Humboldt's Gift
  • 2010

  • Fiction: Georg Klein, Roman unserer Kindheit
  • Non-fiction: Ulrich Raulff, Kreis ohne Meister. Stefan Georges Nachleben
  • Translation: Ulrich Blumenbach, for David Foster Wallace's Unendlicher Spaß
  • 2011

  • Fiction: Clemens J. Setz, Die Liebe zur Zeit des Mahlstädter Kindes
  • Non-fiction: Henning Ritter, Notizhefte
  • Translation: Barbara Conrad, for Leo Tolstoy's War and Peace
  • 2012

  • Fiction: Wolfgang Herrndorf, Sand
  • Non-fiction: Jörg Baberowski, Verbrannte Erde. Stalins Herrschaft der Gewalt
  • Translation: Christina Viragh, for Péter Nádas' Parallelgeschichten
  • 2013

  • Fiction: David Wagner, Leben
  • Non-fiction: Helmut Böttiger, Die Gruppe 47. Als die deutsche Literatur Geschichte schrieb
  • Translation: Eva Hesse, for Ezra Pound's The Cantos
  • 2014

  • Fiction: Saša Stanišić, Vor dem Fest
  • Non-fiction: Helmut Lethen, Der Schatten des Fotografen
  • Translation: Robin Detje, for William T. Vollmann's Europe Central
  • 2015

  • Fiction: Jan Wagner, Regentonnenvariationen
  • Non-fiction: Philipp Ther, Die neue Ordnung auf dem alten Kontinent
  • Translation: Mirjam Pressler, for Amos Oz's Judas
  • References

    Leipzig Book Fair Prize Wikipedia