Carl Amery Literature Prize

The Carl Amery Literature Prize was founded in 2007 by the Association of German Writers in Bavaria , the Luchterhand Literature Publishing House and Verdi Bavaria . The award in memory of Carl Amery and his life's work is presented every two years and is endowed with 6,000 euros. It honors time-critical German-speaking authors who "break new aesthetic paths and thus seek to expand the spectrum of literary possibilities."

Award winners

• 2007: Feridun Zaimoglu
• 2009: July toe
• 2011: Ilija Trojanow
• 2013: Ulrich Peltzer
• 2015: Norbert Niemann
• 2017: Thomas von Steinaecker
• 2019: Karen Duve

Web links

• Carl Amery Literature Prize

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Press release of VS Bayern from Jan. 26, 2015
2. ^ VS Association of German Writers : Carl Amery Literature Prize to Karen Duve. Retrieved December 18, 2018 .