Albatros Literature Prize
The international Albatros Literature Prize of the Günter Grass Foundation Bremen has been awarded every two years for contemporary narrative prose , poetry or essay writing to foreign-language authors and their translators since 2006 .
Choice and price
The award “goes to authors from all over the world whose work is characterized by high literary quality and cultural and socio-political relevance”. Furthermore, “the award-winning work is intended to promote open thinking and free discussion with all areas of our life, with our world and our time” (quoted according to guidelines for award). The outstanding translation into German is also recognized.
The jury is convened by the Günter Grass Foundation. The right of nomination for the award winners lies exclusively with the jury. The award ceremony will take place in Bremen . The prize money is 25,000 euros for the author and 15,000 euros for the translator (s).
Award winners
- 2006 Lídia Jorge (author), Karin von Schweder-Schreiner (translator), for her previous novels
- 2008 Bora Ćosić (author), Katharina Wolf-Grießhaber (translator), for his work to date
- 2010 David Grossman (author), Anne Birkenhauer (translator) for the novel A woman flees from a message
- 2012 Dave Eggers (author), Ulrike Wasel and Klaus Timmermann (translator), for Zeitoun - Eggers did not take part in the award ceremony due to the debates about the Grass poem What needs to be said .
- 2014 Julie Otsuka (author), Katja Scholtz (translator) for the novel What we dreamed of
jury
Since 2006, the seven-member jury has included:
- Immacolata Amodeo (Professor of Literature, Jacobs University Bremen)
- Freimut Duve (editor, editor, editor, politician)
- Michael Hulse (Professor of Literature, University of Warwick, Kent)
- Wilfried F. Schoeller (author, literary critic, general secretary of the German PEN)
The 2006, 2008 and 2010 jury also included:
- Helmut D. Frielinghaus (formerly Luchterhand publishing director, editor, translator)
- Peter Ripken (Managing Director of the Society for the Promotion of Literature from Africa, Asia and Latin America eV / Frankfurt at the Frankfurt Book Fair)
- Dietrich Simon (formerly publishing director "Volk und Welt", managing director of the S. Fischer Foundation)
The 2012 jury consisted of:
- Immacolata Amodeo (Professor of Literature, Jacobs University Bremen)
- Freimut Duve (editor, editor, editor, politician)
- Michael Hulse (Professor of Literature, University of Warwick, England)
- Wilfried F. Schoeller (author, literary critic, general secretary of the German PEN)
- Peter Ripken (Managing Director of the Society for the Promotion of Literature from Africa, Asia and Latin America eV / Frankfurt at the Frankfurt Book Fair)
- Dietrich Simon (formerly publishing director "Volk und Welt", managing director of the S. Fischer Foundation)
- Joachim Sartorius (author, translator, managing director of Berliner Festspiele GmbH)
Individual evidence
- ^ Because of Grass: US author stays away from award ceremony , Weser-Kurier , April 13, 2012
- ^ Jury 2006 ( Memento of December 17, 2013 in the Internet Archive )