LiBeraturpreis
The LiBeraturpreis is a literary prize that is awarded exclusively to women authors from Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Arab world.
history
From 1987 to 2012 it was awarded by the Association Initiative LiBeraturpreis in the Ecumenical Center Christ Church in Frankfurt am Main . Ingeborg Kaestner was the main reason for this initiative and has supported it for many years. Since 2013, the Litprom association has been responsible for the award under the direction of the Frankfurt Book Fair . The reason for the foundation of this award was, on the one hand, that in the discussion on development policy there is much talk of the material poverty of the countries of the South, but too little of their cultural wealth. On the other hand, the small number of translated works by authors from the countries mentioned was mentioned.
Until 2012, the prize was accompanied by prize money of 500 euros and an invitation to the Frankfurt Book Fair . Since 2013, the LiBeraturpreis has included prize money of 3,000 euros and an invitation to the Frankfurt Book Fair. In an online article by the Goethe-Institut that is no longer available on the internet , the LiBeraturpreis was given some importance as it draws attention to the cultural achievements of the so-called Third World . The vote on the award winner has been public since 2014 and is carried out online.
Since 2001, the LiBeraturpreis initiative has also awarded a sponsorship award in order to “discover” female authors for the German-speaking area, for whom no texts have yet been translated into German. The sponsorship award was linked to an invitation to the Leipzig Book Fair in order to attract the attention of the publishers.
The editor-in-chief of Deutsche Welle, Ines Pohl , is the patron of the LiBeraturpreis.
LiBeratur award winners
- 1988: Maryse Condé ( Guadeloupe ) for Segu. The walls of mud
- 1989: Assia Djebar (Algeria) for The Shadow Queen
- 1990: Kamala Markandaya (India) for nectar in a colander
- 1991: Bapsi Sidhwa (Pakistan) for Ice Candy Man
- 1992: Rosario Ferré (Puerto Rico) for granulated sugar
- 1993: Pham Thi Hoai (Vietnam) for The Crystal Messenger
- 1994: Patricia Grace (New Zealand) for Potiki
- 1995: Venus Khoury-Ghata (Lebanon) for The Beloved of the Notable
- 1996: Carmen Boullosa (Mexico) for The Wonderworker
- 1997: Zoé Valdés (Cuba) for The Daily Nothing
- 1998: Mayra Montero (Cuba) for The Mountain of Disappeared Children
- 1999: Astrid Roemer (Surinam) for Could Love be
- 2000: Edwidge Danticat (Haiti / USA) for The Sweet Seed of Tears
- 2001: Paula Jacques (Egypt) for women with their love
- 2002: Yvonne Vera (Zimbabwe) for Butterfly in Flames
- 2003: Oh Jung-hee (Korea) for birds
- 2004: Leïla Marouane (Algeria) for kidnappers
- 2005: Fatou Diome (Senegal) for The Belly of the Ocean
- 2006: Andrea Blanqué (Uruguay) for Die Passantin
- 2007: Michelle de Kretser (Australia / Sri Lanka) for The Hamilton Case
- 2008: Aminatta Forna (Sierra Leone / Great Britain) for Abie's stones
- 2009: Elizabeth Subercaseaux (Chile) for a week in October
- 2010: Claudia Piñeiro (Argentina) for Elena knows
- 2011: Nathalie Abi-Ezzi (Lebanon) for Ruba's Secret
- 2012: Sabina Berman (Mexico) for The Woman Who Dived into the Inner World
- 2013: Patrícia Melo (Brazil) for corpse thief
- 2014: Raja Alem (Saudi Arabia) for The Pigeon Collar
- 2015: Madeleine Thien (Canada, Chinese-Malay roots) for fugitive souls
- 2016: Laksmi Pamuntjak (Indonesia) for all colors red
- 2017: Faribā Vafī (Iran) for Tarlan ; Laudator: SAID
- 2018: Nguyen Ngoc Tu (Vietnam) for Endless Fields
- 2019: Mercedes Rosende (Uruguay) for crocodile tears
- 2020: Lina Atfah (Syria / Germany) for The Book of the Missing Arrival (poems)
Award winners
The previous winners are:
- 2001: Mirta Yáñez (Cuba), Havana is a pretty big city. Atlantik Verlag 2001
- 2002: Yanick Lahens (Haiti), Dance of the Ancestors. Rotpunkt Verlag 2003
- 2003: Spôjmaï Zariâb (Afghanistan), Mein Hahn. Suhrkamp Verlag 2005
- 2004: Lee Hye-kyoung (Korea) Das Haus am Weg. Pendragon Publishing 2005
- 2005: Tanella Boni (Ivory Coast) Matins de couvre-feu, German publisher still open
- 2007: Maïssa Bey (Algeria) Surtout ne te retourne pas, Donata Kinzelbach publishing house
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b The price / LitProm. Retrieved June 4, 2019 .
- ↑ Stephanie von Selchow: Evangelical Frankfurt and Offenbach: Thirty Years of the LiBeraturpreis: “We are only at the beginning of a true world literature”. February 1, 2018, accessed May 11, 2020 .
- ↑ Anke Sauter: In the thicket of literary prizes . Ed .: Goethe Institute. 2006.
- ↑ Ines Pohl's new patron , boersenblatt.net, July 5, 2017, accessed on July 5, 2017
- ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from July 6, 2010 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.
- ↑ http://www.boersenblatt.net/449929/
- ^ Süddeutsche Zeitung: Prize for Mercedes Rosende. Retrieved June 27, 2020 .
- ↑ LiBeraturpreis 2020 goes to Lina Atfah , buchmarkt.de, published and accessed on July 13, 2020.