Golden Leslie
The Golden Leslie is a youth book award .
The prize is awarded to a fiction book for young people by a living German-speaking author that was published for the first time last year. The award is associated with 2,000 euros and a trophy, the "Golden Leslie". The prize is named after the mascot of the campaign “Reading lust in Rhineland-Palatinate ”, the bookworm “Leslie”.
The five-person preliminary jury, which in 2007 consisted of Stefan Gemmel (author), Gunda Kurz (LiteraturBüro Mainz), Angela Magin (Speyer City Library), Katja Theiß (kjl-online) and Yvonne Wolf ( University of Mainz ), selects a shortlist from a proposal from young people . The winning book itself will be determined by a youth jury.
Award winners
- 2006: Katrin Bongard , Radio Gaga
- Shortlist: David Chotjewitz , Crazy Diamond ; Christa Ludwig , Carlos in the night ; Kai Meyer , frost fire
- 2007: Inge Barth-Grözinger , Berry Summer
- Shortlist: Jürgen Banscherus , To Sansibar and further ; Leuw von Katzenstein , The Terror of the Oceans ; Christa-Maria Zimmermann , The Gold of Columbus
- 2008: Waldtraut Lewin , Three characters are one word
- Shortlist: Kirsten Boie : Alhambra ; Thomas Fuchs : Among friends ; Andreas Schendel : Then do it
- 2009: Michael Wallner , The time of the scorpion
- Shortlist: Robert Domes : Fog in August ; Ralf Isau : Minik - At the sources of the night ; Agnes Hammer : Moving Targets ; Martina Wildner : Six
- 2010: Tanya A. Wegberg , Memory Error or How my father crossed the Jordan
- Shortlist: Beate Teresa Hanika : Little Red Riding Hood must cry ; Daniel Höra : Dissed ; Gabi Kreslehner : Charlotte's dream ; Mirjam Pressler : Nathan and his children
- 2011: Ursula Poznanski , Erebos
- Shortlist: Gina Mayer : The lost shoes ; Susanne Orosz : trace of fear ; Kathrin Schrocke : Freak City
- 2012: Katja Brandis / Hans-Peter Ziemek : Call of the Deep
- Shortlist: Günter Ohnemus : Seventeen days in August ; Marlene Röder : Melvin, my dog and the Russian pickles
- 2013: Rolf Lappert : Pampa Blues
- 2014: Rainer Wekwerth : The labyrinth is awakening
- 2015: Lena Hach : Wanted. Yes. No. Maybe.
- 2016: Krystyna Kuhn : Monday Club. The first victim ;
- Shortlist: Johannes Groschupf : The Panther's Smile ; Peer Martin : Summer under black wings ; Thorsten Nesch : The cruise with the ashes of my damn father ; Elisabeth Steinkellner : Raven Summer
- 2017: Isabel Abedi : The longest night
- 2018: Christian Linker : The shot
- Shortlist: Stefanie Höfler : Dance of the deep sea jellyfish ; Karl Olsberg : Boy in a White Room ; Rafik Schami : Sami and the desire for freedom ; TA Wegberg : My mother, my ex-husband and me