2008 year of literature

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Overview of the literary years
Further events

Events

13-16 March 2008 Leipzig Book Fair
15-19 October 2008 Frankfurt Book Fair , guest country Turkey

Birthdays and memorial days

January 9 : 100th anniversary of the death of the German writer Wilhelm Busch

Died

January 2: George MacDonald Fraser
January 4th: John O'Donohue
January 15: Nguyễn Khải
January 19: Albert Pütz
January 22nd: Bernhard Horstmann ( Stefan Murr )
January 22nd: Claude Piron
January 28: Marie Takvam
January 31: Eva Heller
February 6: Dieter Noll
February 7th: Frank Geerk
February 7th: Jirō Kawamura
February 10: Peter Marginter
February 11: Emilio Carballido
February 11th: Boris Schreiber
February 14: Werner K. Giesa
February 18: Raymond Kennedy
February 18: Alain Robbe-Grillet
February 19: Franz-Joachim Schneider
February 23: Josep Palau i Fabre
February 24th: Günther Rücker
February 28th: Salme Raatma
February 28: Julian Rathbone
February 29: Janet Kagan
March 12th: Erik Ågren
March 18: Anthony Minghella
March 18: Jochen Petersdorf
March 19: Arthur C. Clarke
March 19: Hugo Claus
March 26th: Erwin Wickert
00.March: Anna Altschuk
April 14th: Horst Bingel
April 17th: Aimé Césaire
April 17th: Werner Dürrson
April 29th: Bo Yang
May 6th: Kuno Bärenbold
May 8: Luigi Malerba
May 9: Pascal Sevran
May 14: Elmar Ferber
May 19: Vijay Tendulkar
May 24th: Elmar Pettai
May 28: Gerhard Konzelmann
June 6: Saeko Himuro
June 8th: Peter Rühmkorf
June 9th: Algis Budrys
June 10: Chingis Aitmatov
June 22nd: George Carlin
June 22nd: Albert Cossery
June 22nd: Gerhard Meier
June 23: Fabrizia Ramondino
June 27: Lenka Reinerová
June 29th: Hans Caninenberg
July 4th: Thomas M. Disch
July 4th: Nicolaus Sombart
July 4th: Janwillem van de Wetering
July 11th: Anatoly Pristavkin
July 16: Ernst Solèr
July 25: Lotte Betke
July 31: Lee Cheong-jun
August 3: Alexander Solzhenitsyn
August 9: Mahmud Darwish
August 12: Helge Hagerup
August 17th: Yuri Bedsyk
August 19: Leo Abse
August 26: Christian Geissler
September 4th: Dan Bar-On
September 7: Wendelin Schmidt-Dengler
September 12: David Foster Wallace
September 24th: Bengt Anderberg
September 24th: Uno Laht
September 30th: Christa Reinig
October 31: Studs Terkel
November 4th: Michael Crichton
November 15: Peter W. Jansen
November 25th: William Gibson
November 28: Lee Baxandall
November 30th: Béatrix Beck
00.November: Raffaele Andreassi
December 1st: Peter Maiwald
December 24th: Harold Pinter

New releases

Fiction

The Abolition of Species - Dietmar Dath
Alfred and Emily - Doris Lessing
To be alarmed does not count - Jürgen Link
Letter to the public prosecutor. A forensic novella. - Janko Ferk
City of Bones - Cassandra Clare
The demons (Meißner) - Tobias O. Meißner
Echo Park - Michael Connelly
The loneliness of the prime numbers - Paolo Giordano
Outrage (novel) - Philip Roth
Memories of Happy Days - Julien Green
The first love (after 19 unsuccessful attempts) - John Green
The first drop of blood - Stuart MacBride
Exit Ghost - Philip Roth
Purgatory (Sofi Oksanen, Roman) - Sofi Oksanen
Wetlands - Charlotte Roche
Die Grenzländersaga , Vol. 1: The days of the deer - Liliana Bodoc
Penumbra - Uwe Timm
Hominids (narration) - Klaus Ebner
I will be here in the sunshine and in the shade - Christian Kracht
Idyll with drowning dog - Michael Köhlmeier
Just Listen - Sarah Dessen
The Emperor of China - Tilman Rammstedt
Cold Death - Michael Connelly
Child 44 - Tom Rob Smith
Children's wedding - Adolf Muschg
The last Weynfeldt - Martin Suter
Love brandy - Feridun Zaimoglu
Little Brother (novel) - Cory Doctorow
Man in the Dark - Paul Auster
Mano. The boy who didn't know where he was - Anja Tuckermann
The wet fish. Gereon Rath's first case - Volker Kutscher
Nowhere else - Christiane Neudecker
No & I - Delphine de Vigan
Paper Towns - John Green
Paradises of the Sun - JG Ballard
Passenger to Frankfurt - Agatha Christie
Rico, Oskar and the deep shadows - Andreas Steinhöfel
Novel from a field - Katja Behrens
Call me by your name - André Aciman
Salvatore - Arnold Stadler
Shards Park - Alina Bronsky
The soul breaker - Sebastian Fitzek
Spheres - Iain M. Banks
The Angel's Game - Carlos Ruiz Zafón
The tower - Uwe Tellkamp
The Association of Yiddish Police Officers - Michael Chabon
Delusion - Stephen King
The Path into the Shadows - Brent Weeks
How to Become Immortal - Every Minute Counts - Sally Nicholls
The well-meaning - Jonathan Littell
What do you want to know that for? - Alice Munro
The sign of victory - Bernard Cornwell

drama

The patriot - Felix Mitterer
Shadow voices - Günter Senkel and Feridun Zaimoglu

Non-fiction

Far near - Ilija Trojanow and Feridun Zaimoglu
NATO secret armies in Europe - Daniele Ganser
The Post-American World - Fareed Zakaria
Our fight in 1968 - an irritated look back - Götz Aly
The preparation of the novel - Roland Barthes

Literary prizes

German literary prizes

Adelbert von Chamisso Prize : Saša Stanišić ; Michael Stavarič and Léda Forgó (sponsorship award)
Berlin Literature Prize : Ulrich Peltzer
Hermann Hesse Prize in Calw : Małgorzata Łukasiewicz Translation Prize
Carl Zuckmayer Medal : Bodo Kirchhoff
Clemens Brentano Prize : Ann Cotten , Foreign Dictionary Sonnets
German Book Prize : Uwe Tellkamp
German Science Fiction Prize : Frank W. Haubold : Die Schatten des Mars
Friedrich Gundolf Prize : Jurko Prochasko
Georg Büchner Prize : Josef Winkler
Heinrich Mann Prize : Heinz Schlaffer
Hubert Burda Prize for Young Poetry : Valzhyna Mort , Delimir Rešicki and Tadeusz Dąbrowski
Jakob Wassermann Prize : Roberto Schopflocher
Johann Heinrich Voss Prize for Translation : Verena Reichel
Joseph Breitbach Prize : Marcel Beyer
Kassel Literature Prize : Peter Rühmkorf (posthumous, main prize); Michael Stauffer (sponsorship award)
Kleist Prize : Max Goldt
Mainz town clerk : Michael Kleeberg
Mara Cassens Prize : Lukas Bärfuss
Peter Huchel Prize : Ulf Stolterfoht
Leipzig Book Fair Prize :
- Clemens Meyer (fiction)
- Irina Liebmann (non-fiction / essay writing)
- Fritz Vogelgsang (translation)
Prize of the literary houses : Anselm Glück
Prize of the SWR best list : Günter Herburger
Würth Prize for European Literature : Peter Turrini

International literary prizes

Hugo Award

Michael Chabon , The Yiddish Policemen's Union , The Association of Yiddish Policemen , Category: Best Novel
Connie Willis , All Seated on the Ground , Category: Best Short Novel
Ted Chiang , The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate , The Merchant at the Alchemist's Portal , Category: Best Story

Elizabeth Bear , Tideline , Category: Best Short Story

Kurd Laßwitz Prize

Andreas Eschbach , Burned Out , Category: Best Novel
Michael K. Iwoleit , Der Moloch , Category: Best short story / short story
Sergej Lukianenko , Spectrum , Category: Best Foreign Work
Hannes Riffel , Category: Best Translator
Helmuth W. Mommers for his efforts on the SF short story in general and the Visionen series in particular, special award

Locus Award

Michael Chabon, The Yiddish Policemen's Union , The Yiddish Policemen's Union , Category: Best SF Novel
Terry Pratchett , Making Money , Schöne Scheine , Category: Best Fantasy Novel
China Miéville , Un Lun Dun , Un Lon Dun , Category: Best Book for Young People
Joe Hill , Heart-Shaped Box , Blind , Category: Best First Novel
Cory Doctorow , After the Siege , Category: Best Short Novel
Neil Gaiman , The Witch's Headstone , Category: Best Narration
Michael Swanwick , A Small Room in Koboldtown , Category: Best Short Story
Connie Willis , The Winds of Marble Arch and Other Stories , Category: Best Collection
Gardner Dozois & Jonathan Strahan , The New Space Opera , Category: Best Anthology

Nebula Award

Ursula K. Le Guin , Powers , Category: Best Novel
Catherine Asaro , The Spacetime Pool , Category: Best Short Novel
John Kessel , Pride and Prometheus , Category: Best Narration
Nina Kiriki Hoffman , Trophy Wives , Category: Best Short Story
Andrew Stanton & Jim Reardon & Pete Docter , WALL-E , WALL-E - The Last One Cleans Up the Earth , Category: Best Screenplay

Philip K. Dick Award

Adam-Troy Castro , Emissaries From The Dead , Halbgeist
David Walton , Terminal Mind

Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards :
- Ayaan Hirsi Ali for Infidel: My Life
- Junot Díaz for The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
- Mohsin Hamid for The Reluctant Fundamentalist
- William Melvin Kelley for life's work
Cervantes Prize : Juan Marsé
Danuta Gleed Literary Award : Andrew Hood , Pardon Our Monsters
Erich Fried Prize : Alois Hotschnig
Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize : Mary Novik , Conceit
European Prize for Literature : Tankred Dorst
Finlandia Prize : Sofi Oksanen , Puhdistus
Ingeborg Bachmann Prize : Tilman Rammstedt
International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award : De Niro's Game ( As if there were no tomorrow ) by Rawi Hage
International Prize for Arabic Fiction : Bahaa Taher , Sunset Oasis
Lieutenant Governor's Award for Literary Excellence : Gary Geddes
Man Booker Prize for Fiction : Aravind Adiga , The White Tiger
Newbery Medal : Laura Amy Schlitz
Nobel Prize in Literature : Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio
Austrian State Prize for European Literature : Agota Kristof
Prince of Asturias Prize for Literature: Margaret Atwood
Prix Goncourt : Atiq Rahimi
Prix Femina Étranger : Sandro Veronesi
Pulitzer Prize : Junot Díaz , The brief wondrous life of Oscar Wao
Rauris Literature Prize : Simona Ryser ; Margarita Fuchs (sponsorship award)
Riverton Prize : Vidar Sundstøl , Drømmenes land
Robert Walser Prize : Marius Daniel Popescu , La symphonie du loup

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