Chamisso Prize (Dresden)

The Chamisso Prize / Hellerau is a German literature prize that has been awarded by an alliance of associations, companies and cultural actors in Dresden since 2018 .

The prize is endowed with 15,000 euros and is intended to honor "outstanding contributions to contemporary literature by authors who, through a personal change of language or culture, provide new literary answers to the change in the globalized world."

The name of the award refers to the Dresden district of Gartenstadt Hellerau , a center of cultural reform efforts and experiments in new ways of life at the beginning of the 20th century, and to the German naturalist and poet Adelbert von Chamisso .

The first prize winner in 2018 was the Argentine María Cecilia Barbetta with her novel Night Lights . According to the jury's rationale, it shows "the change in social moods" and "with all the finesse of the German language, the hopes and fears of the common people" in the run-up to the 1976 military coup in Buenos Aires.

Prize winners

• 2018: María Cecilia Barbetta
• 2019: Jaroslav Rudiš

Web links

• Web presence of the literary prize

literature

• Chamisso Prize / Hellerau. Literature and Migration 2018. Dresden: Thelem 2019, ISBN 978-3-95908-878-7

Individual evidence

1. ↑ New Chamisso Prize to Marcia Cecilia Barbetta , DPA report on Deutschlandfunk-Kultur, accessed on April 2, 2019.
2. ↑ New literary prize: Chamisso Prize / Hellerau , Börsenblatt from April 3, 2019, accessed May 25, 2019