Believer Book Award
The Believer Book Award is an American literary award . The award has been presented by the US literary magazine The Believer since 2005 for published short stories and novels from the previous year. The names of the nominees are announced annually between February and March and the winners in April or May. In 2015, the price was not announced until the autumn issue of the magazine.
Award winners
| year | Award winners | Original title | German title publisher, location year |
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| 2004 | Sam Lipsyte | Home country |
Michelle de Kretser for The Hamilton Case Lucy Ellmann for Dot in the Universe Selah Saterstrom for The Pink Institution Francisco Goldman for The Divine Husband |
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| 2005 | Sesshu Foster | Atomik Aztex |
Trinie Dalton for Wide Eyed Aimee Bender for Willful Creatures John Wray for Canaan's Tongue Tom Bissell for God Lives in St. Petersburg |
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| 2006 | Cormac McCarthy | The Road |
Reinbek Street , Hamburg 2007 |
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| 2007 | Tom McCarthy | Remainder |
8 ½ million Diaphanes, Zurich 2009 |
Jesse Ball for Samedi the Deafness Gerard Donovan for Sunless Steve Erickson for Zeroville Elizabeth Hand for Generation Loss Alain Mabanckou for African Psycho Miranda Mellis for The Revisionist Lydie Salvayre for The Power of Flies Selah Saterstrom for The Meat and Spirit Plan Joe Weisberg for An Ordinary Spy |
| 2008 | Emily Perkins | Novel About My Wife |
Novel about my wife Bloomsbury Berlin, Berlin 2009 |
Samantha Hunt for The Invention of Everything Else Mary Ruefle for The Most of It John Olson for Souls of Wind Jim Krusoe for Girl Factory Tod Wodicka for All Shall Be Well; And All Shall Be Well; and All Manner of Things Shall Be Well Toby Olson for Tampico Shannon Burke for Black Flies |
| 2009 | Percival Everett | I Am Not Sidney Poitier |
I'm not Sidney Poitier Luxbooks, Wiesbaden 2014 |
Christopher Miller for The Cardboard Universe: A Guide to the World of Phoebus K. Thanks to Mary Robison for One DOA, One on the Way Blake Butler for Scorch Atlas Padgett Powell for The Interrogative Mood |
| 2010 | James Hynes | Next |
Danielle Dutton for Sprawl Kira Henehan for Orion You Came and You Took All My Marbles Grace Krilanovich for The Orange Eats Creeps Paul Murray for Skippy Dies |
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| 2011 | Ben Lerner | Leaving the Atocha Station |
Farewell to Atocha Rowohlt, Hamburg 2013 |
Jesse Ball for The Curfew Helen DeWitt for Lightning Rods Lars Iyer for Spurious Michelle Latiolais for Widow |
| 2012 | Tamara Faith Berger | Maidenhead |
Pussy Metrolit, Berlin 2014 |
Barbara Browning for I'm Trying to Reach You Karl Ove Knausgård for Min kamp. Første bok Jim Krusoe for Parsifal Sergio De La Pava for A Naked Singularity |
| 2013 | Rebecca Lee | Bobcat and Other Stories |
Kiese Laymon for Long Division Fiona Maazel for Woke Up Lonely Keith Ridgway for Hawthorn and Child Bennett Sims for A Questionable Shape |
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| 2014 | Ottessa Moshfegh | McGlue |
McGlue Liebeskind, Munich 2016 |
Diane Cook for Man V. Nature Valeria Luiselli for Faces in the Crowd Elizabeth McCracken for Thunderstruck and Other Stories Antoine Volodine for Writers |
| 2015 | no award | |||
| 2016 | no award | |||
| 2017 | Matthew Rohrer | The Others |
Andrew Durbin for MacArthur Park Deepak Unnikrishnan for Temporary People Jenny Zhang for Sour Heart Leyna Krow for I'm Fine, But You Appear to Be Sinking |
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| 2018 | Rita Bullwinkel | Belly Up |
Mathias Énard for Tell Them of Battles, Kings, and Elephants Ben Passmore for Your Black Friend and Other Strangers Shelley Jackson for Riddance; Or: The Sybil Joines Vocational School for Ghost Speakers & Hearing-Mouth Children Hideo Yokoyama for Seventeen |
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