Anna Seghers Prize
The Anna Seghers Prize is an international literary prize awarded annually by the Anna Seghers Foundation . The award goes back to the German writer Anna Seghers , who stipulated in her will that the income from her work should be used to support young authors . Until 2012, the award was endowed with 15,000 euros, which were given in equal parts to an author from the German-speaking and Latin American regions. In 2013 and 2014 the award could not be awarded. Since 2015 it has been endowed with 8,000 euros each; In 2020, the endowment is 12,500 euros each. According to the statutes of the Anna Seghers Foundation, the prize is dedicated to “promoting as yet little-known young authors from German-speaking and Latin American countries”.
The prize has been awarded since 1986, initially as an Anna Seghers scholarship until 1993 by the Academy of the Arts of the GDR , in 1994 by the Academy of the Arts (Berlin) , then by the Anna Seghers Foundation.
You cannot apply for the Anna Seghers Prize. The selection of the award winners is made every year by personalities from literary life commissioned by the foundation.
Award winners
Web links
- Website of the Anna Seghers Foundation (with the winners from 1986 to 2020)
Individual evidence
- ^ Website of the Anna Seghers Foundation , accessed on September 4, 2015