Literature year 2009

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Overview of the literary years
Further events

Events

• 12-15 March Leipzig Book Fair
• 14.-18. October Frankfurt Book Fair , guest country China

Birthdays and anniversaries

• January 19: 200th birthday of the American writer Edgar Allan Poe († 1849)
• June 13: 200th birthday of the German writer Heinrich Hoffmann († 1894)

New releases

• 2666 - Roberto Bolaño
• All seven waves - Daniel Glattauer
• Anatomy of a moment - Javier Cercas
• The lawyer - John Grisham
• Apostoloff - Sibylle Lewitscharoff
• The arena - Stephen King
• Breathing swing - Herta Müller
• Atlas of the Remote Islands - Judith Schalansky
• Departure - Ulla Hahn
• Blood and Bones - Stuart MacBride
• The Brenner and the good Lord - Wolf Haas
• The book without a name
• Corpus Delicti - July toe
• Back then, the sea - Meg Rosoff
• You have to change your life - Peter Sloterdijk
• Simple Thunderstorm - William Boyd
• Once - Morris Gleitzman
• Outrage - Philip Roth
• The Familiarity of Strangers - Francesca Trivellato
• The Fly Palace - Walter Kappacher
• Happiness in times far from happiness - Wilhelm Genazino
• Embers and Ashes - Wolfgang Hohlbein
• Good Bye Mohammed - Norbert G. Pressburg
• Burial Chamber - Tess Gerritsen
• Hinterland - Feridun Zaimoglu
• Job's brothers - Rebecca Gablé
• I'm not a serial killer - Dan Wells
• I am full of hate - and I love that - Joachim Gaertner
• Beyond good and bad - Michael Schmidt-Salomon
• Juliet, Naked - Nick Hornby
• The map of my dreams - Reif Larsen
• Kolyma - Tom Rob Smith
• A king for Germany - Andreas Eschbach
• The short miraculous life of Oscar Wao - Junot Díaz
• State stage - Siegfried Lenz
• The life of desires - Thomas Glavinic
• The Legends of the Albae: Righteous Wrath - Markus Heitz
• Corpse pallor - Simon Beckett
• Limit - Frank Schätzing
• Micro history: People and Conflicts in the Early Modern Age - Otto Ulbricht
• Nathan and his children - Mirjam Pressler
• The New Book of Genesis - Bernard Beckett
• Parrot and Olivier in America - Peter Carey
• Piercing - Ryū Murakami
• Rico, Oskar and the heartache - Andreas Steinhöfel
• Reddening - Klaus Ebner
• Fame - Daniel Kehlmann
• The seeds - Chuck Hogan and Guillermo del Toro
• Sarajevo Marlboro - Miljenko Jergović
• Sleep - Haruki Murakami
• Seven years - Peter Stamm
• Soul Kitchen. The story first part - the book before the film - Jasmin Ramadan
• The silent death. Gereon Rath's second case - Volker Kutscher
• Dead girls don't lie - Jay Asher
• The dead - Camilla Läckberg
• Over the noise - Norbert Scheuer
• An untamed life - Jeannette Walls
• Below left - Jan Fleischhauer
• The lost symbol - Dan Brown
• The violin from Auschwitz - Maria Àngels Anglada
• Greed by Wolf - Brigitte Melzer

Died

• January 1st - Johannes Mario Simmel
• January 2nd - Inger Christensen
• January 4th - Gert Jonke
• January 15 - Maurice Chappaz
• January 16 - John Mortimer
• January 17 - Elisabeth Alexander
• January 27th - Christian Enzensberger
• January 27 - John Updike
• January 29 - Adalbert Seipolt
• February 13 - Edward Upward
• March 13 - James Purdy
• March 19 - Gertrud Fussenegger
• March 24th - Heinz von Cramer
• April 9 - Elfriede Gerstl
• April 13th - Stefan Brecht
• April 14th - Maurice Druon
• April 19 - James Graham Ballard
• April 28th - Idea Vilariño
• May 2 - Marilyn French
• May 17th - Mario Benedetti
• May 18 - Paul Parin
• May 21 - Nasar Honchar
• June 9 - Wera Mutaftschiewa
• June 20th - Angela Praesent
• June 25th - Jochen Berg
• July 3 - Jorge Enrique Adoum
• July 6 - Vasily Aksyonov
• July 12th - Simon Vinkenoog
• July 17th - Leszek Kołakowski
• July 19 - Frank McCourt
• July 25th - Nezihe Araz
• August 2nd - Adolf Endler
• August 17th - Robert Feldhoff
• August 18 - Hugo Loetscher
• August 18 - Nezihe Meriç
• August 23 - John Vermeulen
• August 27 - Sergei Mikhalkov
• September 11th - Jim Carroll
• September 22nd - Kole Čašule
• September 28th - José Antonio Muñoz Rojas
• September 30th - Rafael Arozarena
• October 1 - Otar Chiladze
• October 3 - Gert Mattenklott
• October 6 - Raymond Federman
• October 9 - Jacques Chessex
• October 22nd - Fritz Vogelgsang
• November 3rd - Francisco Ayala
• November 8 - Pierre Bottero
• December 22nd - Sherzaman Taizi
• December 23 - Grigory Baklanov

Literature prizes 2009

German literary prizes

• Adelbert von Chamisso Prize : Artur Becker ; María Cecilia Barbetta and Tzveta Sofronieva (sponsorship award)
• Berlin Literature Prize : Dea Loher
• Brothers Grimm Prize of the City of Hanau : Natascha Wodin
• German Book Prize : Kathrin Schmidt , you don't die
• Carl Zuckmayer Medal : Volker Schlöndorff
• Clemens Brentano Prize : Andreas Stichmann , Jackie in Silver ; Felicia Zeller Lonely lean on the familiar
• German Science Fiction Prize : Dirk C. Fleck , The Tahiti Project
• Ernst Toller Prize : Gerhard Polt
• Friedrich Gundolf Prize : Nicholas Boyle
• Georg Büchner Prize : Walter Kappacher
• Heinrich Mann Prize : Hanns Zischler
• Hermann Lenz Prize : Friederike Mayröcker
• Hubert Burda Prize for Young Poetry : Lidija Dimkovska , Iulían Tanase , Ostap Slyvynksyj
• Johann Gottfried Seume Literature Prize : Helga M. Novak , where I am now
• Johann Heinrich Voss Prize for Translation : Susanne Lange
• Joseph Breitbach Prize : Ursula Krechel
• Kleist Prize : Arnold Stadler
• Leonce and Lena Prize : Ulrike Almut Sandig
• Mainz town clerk : Monika Maron
• Mara Cassens Prize : Roman Graf
• Peter Huchel Prize : Gerhard Falkner , Hölderlin Repair
• Leipzig Book Fair Prize :
  • Sibylle Lewitscharoff (fiction)
  • Herfried Münkler (non-fiction book / essay)
  • Eike Schönfeld (translation)
• Prize of the literary houses : Ilija Trojanow
• Prize of the SWR best list : Kathrin Schmidt

International literary prizes

• Hugo Award

• Neil Gaiman , The Graveyard Book , The Graveyard Book , Category: Best Novel
• Nancy Kress , The Erdmann Nexus , Category: Best Short Novel
• Elizabeth Bear , Shoggoths in Bloom , Category: Best Narration
• Ted Chiang , Exhalation , Exhalation , Category: Best Short Story

• Kurd Laßwitz Prize

• Dietmar Dath , The Abolition of Species , Category: Best Novel
• Andreas Eschbach , survival training , category: best short story / narrative
• Heidrun Jänchen , A business like any other , Category: Best short story / short story (awarded twice)
• Charles Stross , Das Glashaus , Category: Best Foreign Work
• Sara Riffel , Category: Best Translator
• Ernst Vlcek posthumously for his life's work, special award
• Wolfgang Both for his book Red Blueprints on Socialist Utopias, Special Prize (awarded twice)

• Locus Award

• Neal Stephenson , Anathem , Anathem , Category: Best SF Novel
• Ursula K. Le Guin , Lavinia , Category: Best Fantasy Novel
• Neil Gaiman, The Graveyard Book , The Graveyard Book , Category: Best Children's Book
• Paul Melko , Singularity's Ring , Der Ring , Category: Best First Novel
• Kelly Link , Pretty Monsters , Category: Best Short Novel
• Paolo Bacigalupi , Pump Six , Category: Best Story
• Ted Chiang , Exhalation , Category: Best Short Story
• Paolo Bacigalupi, Pump Six and Other Stories , Category: Best Collection
• Gardner Dozois , The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Fifth Annual Collection , Category: Best Anthology

• Nebula Award

• Paolo Bacigalupi , The Windup Girl , Biokrieg , Category: Best Novel
• Kage Baker , The Women of Nell Gwynne’s , Category: Best Short Novel
• Eugie Foster , Sinner, Baker, Fabulist, Priest; Red Mask, Black Mask, Gentleman, Beast , Category: Best Narration
• Kij Johnson , Spar , Category: Best Short Story
• Neill Blomkamp & Terri Tatchell , District 9 , District 9 , Category: Best Screenplay

• Philip K. Dick Award

• CL Anderson , Bitter Angels

• Cervantes Prize : José Emilio Pacheco
• Danuta Gleed Literary Award : Pasha Malla , The Withdrawal Method
• David Cohen Prize : Seamus Heaney
• Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize : Daphne Marlatt , Given
• Erich Fried Prize : Esther Dischereit
• Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize : Lee Henderson , The Man Game
• European Essay Prize Charles Veillon : Claudio Magris
• Finlandia Prize : Antti Hyry , Uuni
• Ingeborg Bachmann Prize : Jens Petersen
• International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award : Man Gone Down by Michael Thomas
• International Prize for Arabic Fiction : Youssef Ziedan , Beelzebub
• Lieutenant Governor's Award for Literary Excellence : Terry Glavin
• Man Booker Prize for Fiction : Hilary Mantel , Wolf Hall
• Man Booker International Prize : Alice Munro
• Newbery Medal : Neil Gaiman
• Nobel Prize for Literature : Herta Müller
• Austrian State Prize for European Literature : Per Olov Enquist
• Prince of Asturias Prize for Literature: Ismail Kadare
• Prix ​​Goncourt : Marie NDiaye , Trois femmes puissantes
• Prix ​​Femina Étranger : Matthias Zschokke , Maurice à la poule
• Pulitzer Prize : Elizabeth Strout , Olive Kitteridge (novel)
• Rauris Literature Prize : Julya Rabinowich , Spaltkopf ; Hansjörg Zauner (sponsorship award)
• Riverton Prize : Tom Egeland , Lucifer's Gospel
• Scotiabank Giller Prize : Linden MacIntyre , The Bishop's Man
• Toronto Book Awards : Austin Clarke , More

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• Erich Maria Remarque Peace Prize : Henning Mankell (main prize); Lukas Bärfuss (special price)
• Peace Prize of the German Book Trade : Claudio Magris
• Goethe Medal : Lars Gustafsson

See also

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