Leipzig Book Prize for European Understanding
The Leipzig Book Prize for European Understanding is an annually awarded German literary prize .
Since 1994, this prize has been given to authors who have made a name for themselves in communication in Europe, especially in East Central Europe . The prize, which is endowed with 20,000 euros (as of 2019; 10,000 euros main prize and 5,000 euros recognition prize until 2005), is sponsored by the Saxon State Ministry for Science and Art and the City of Leipzig . The Board of Trustees also includes the Börsenverein des Deutschen Buchhandels and Leipziger Messe GmbH.
Traditionally, the prize is awarded every year in March at the opening of the Leipzig Book Fair in the Leipzig Gewandhaus .
Award winners
(H = main prize, A = recognition prize, F = sponsorship prize)
- 1994: Ryszard Kapuściński (H); Eckhard Thiele (A)
- 1995: Péter Nádas (H); Swetlana Geier (A)
- 1996: Aleksandar Tišma (H); Fritz Mierau (A)
- 1997: Imre Kertész (H); Antonin J. Liehm (A)
- 1998: Swetlana Alexijewitsch (H); Ilma Rakusa (A); Andreas Tretner (F)
- 1999: Eric J. Hobsbawm (H); Nenad Popović (A)
- 2000: Hanna Krall (H); Peter Urban (A)
- 2001: Claudio Magris (H); Norbert Randow (A)
- 2002: Bora Cosic (H); Ludvík Kundera (A)
- 2003: Hugo Claus (H); Barbara Antkowiak (A)
- 2004: Dževad Karahasan (H); Gábor Csordás (A)
- 2005: Slavenka Drakulić
- 2006: Jurij Andruchowytsch
- 2007: Gerd Koenen , Michail Ryklin
- 2008: Geert Mak
- 2009: Karl Schlögel
- 2010: György Dalos
- 2011: Martin Pollack
- 2012: Ian Kershaw , Timothy Snyder
- 2013: Klaus-Michael Bogdal for Europe invents the gypsies
- 2014: Pankaj Mishra for From the Ruins of the Empire. The revolt against the west and the resurgence of Asia
- 2015: Mircea Cărtărescu for his Orbitor romance trilogy
- 2016: Heinrich August Winkler for his four-volume magnum opus History of the West
- 2017: Mathias Énard for his novel Kompass
- 2018: Åsne Seierstad for the documentary novel One of Us. The story of a mass murderer
- 2019: Masha Gessen for the future is history. How Russia won and lost its freedom
- 2020: László F. Földényi for Praise of Melancholy. Mysterious messages
literature
- The Exchange Association of the German Book Trade 1825–2000. A historical outline . Edited on behalf of the Historical Commission by Stephan Füssel , Georg Jäger and Hermann Staub in conjunction with Monika Estermann. Booksellers Association, Frankfurt am Main 2000.