Erich Loest Prize
The Erich Loest Prize is a German literature prize founded in 2016 on the occasion of the 90th birthday of the writer Erich Loest and first awarded in 2017 . It is given by the Media Foundation of Sparkasse Leipzig every two years on February 24th, Loest's birthday, "preferably to authors from Central Germany " and is endowed with 10,000 euros (as of 2019).
Award winners
- 2019: Hans Joachim Schädlich , especially for his novel Felix and Felka
- 2017: Guntram Vesper for his novel Frohburg (laudator: Andreas Platthaus )
Individual evidence
- ↑ Erich Loest Prize on leipziger-medienstiftung.de , accessed on January 11, 2019
- ↑ Hans Joachim Schädlich honored. Announcement from Börsenblatt.net of January 10, 2019, accessed on January 10, 2019.
- ↑ Guntram Vesper receives the Erich Loest Prize. From buchmarkt.de , January 24, 2017, accessed January 25, 2017.
- ↑ Erich Loest Prize for Guntram Vesper . January 24, 2017 ( tagesspiegel.de [accessed January 26, 2017]).
- ↑ Erich-Loest Prize for Guntram Vesper . January 24, 2017 ( mdr.de [accessed January 26, 2017]). Erich-Loest Prize for Guntram Vesper ( Memento of the original from January 26, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Zeitreisender in FAZ of January 26, 2017, p. 9.