Nelly Sachs Prize
The Nelly Sachs Prize is a literature prize awarded biennially in December by the city of Dortmund in honor of Nelly Sachs . It is given to people who
- ... produce outstanding creative achievements in the field of literary and intellectual life and which aim in particular to improve the cultural relations between the peoples who have taken on the promotion of international cultural work as a new and connecting element between peoples, who have proclaimed and exemplified the spiritual tolerance and reconciliation among the peoples in their life and work .
The prize is endowed with 15,000 euros.
Due to the budgetary situation, the prize could not be awarded in 2009, and the nominee for 2009 was only able to receive the prize in 2010.
In 2019 the prize was to be awarded to the writer Kamila Shamsie . After protests against the awarding of the award, the jury announced that it would review the awarding of the award and, after reviewing it, announced that there would be no awarding of the award in 2019. As a reason, she stated : “ The political positioning of Kamila Shamsie to actively participate in the cultural boycott as part of the BDS campaign (Boycott Disinvestment Sanctions) against the Israeli government is in clear contradiction to the statute objectives of the award and the spirit the Nelly Sachs Prize. “In an open letter in the London Review of Books , 250 international authors objected to the jury's decision.
Award winners
- 1961 Nelly Sachs
- 1963 Johanna Moosdorf
- 1965 Max Tau
- 1967 Alfred Andersch
- 1969 Giorgio Bassani
- 1971 Ilse Aichinger
- 1973 Paul Schallück
- 1975 Elias Canetti
- 1977 Hermann Kesten
- 1979 Erich Fromm
- 1981 Horst Bienek
- 1983 Hilde Domin
- 1985 Nadine Gordimer
- 1987 Milan Kundera
- 1989 Andrzej Szczypiorski
- 1991 David Grossman
- 1993 Juan Goytisolo
- 1995 Michael Ondaatje
- 1997 Javier Marías
- 1999 Christa Wolf
- 2001 Georges-Arthur Goldschmidt
- 2003 Per Olov Enquist
- 2005 Aharon Appelfeld
- 2007 Rafik Schami
- 2009 Margaret Atwood
- 2011 Norman Manea
- 2013 Abbas Khider
- 2015 Marie NDiaye
- 2017 Bakhtyar Ali
- 2019 award suspended
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Dortmund.de: Nelly Sachs Prize
- ^ Nelly Sachs Prize goes to Margaret Atwood. Der Westen (WAZ), September 10, 2009, accessed July 6, 2015 .
- ↑ Stefan Laurin: Nelly Sachs Prize: Jury will rethink awarding the prize to Kamila Shamsie. In: Ruhrbarone. September 11, 2019, accessed September 18, 2019 .
- ↑ Dortmund is not awarding a Nelly Sachs Prize this year. In: WDR. September 18, 2019, accessed September 18, 2019 .
- ^ Felix Stephan : Nelly Sachs Prize - Open letter to the jury. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung. September 23, 2019, accessed September 23, 2019 .
- ^ The Right to Boycott. In: London Review of Books. September 23, 2019, accessed on September 23, 2019 .