Year of literature 2010

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Year of literature 2010
The manuscript of the memoirs of Giacomo Casanova is sold for 7.2 million euros

Events

February 18 : The Mannheim publishing house Brockhaus sells the manuscript of the memoirs of Giacomo Casanova (“ Histoire de ma vie ”) to the French Ministry of Culture for 7.2 million euros . At this point in time it is the highest sum ever paid for a manuscript.

18.-21. March: Leipzig Book Fair

6-10 October: Frankfurt Book Fair , guest country Argentina

Birthdays and anniversaries

February 1: 100th anniversary of the death of the German writer Otto Julius Bierbaum
February 15: 200th anniversary of the death of American writer Mary SB Dana
March 1st: 400th birthday of the German writer Johann Balthasar Schupp
March 27th: 200th birthday of the German satirist Adolf Glaßbrenner
April 15: 100th anniversary of the death of the French writer Jean Moréas
April 21: 100th anniversary of the death of American writer Mark Twain
May 22: 100th anniversary of the death of the French writer Jules Renard
June 5: 100th anniversary of the death of the American writer O. Henry
June 8: 100th birthday of American writer John W. Campbell
June 13: 200th anniversary of the death of the German poet Johann Gottfried Seume
June 17th: 200th birthday of the German poet Ferdinand Freiligrath
June 23: 100th birthday of the French writer Jean Anouilh
June 28: 200th birthday of the German children's book author Thekla von Gumpert
July 2nd: 100th birthday of the German writer CC Bergius
September 29: 200th birthday of the German writer Elizabeth Gaskell
October 14: 100th anniversary of the death of the German writer Rudolf Lindau
October 17: 100th anniversary of the death of the German writer Kurd Laßwitz
November 7th: 200th birthday of the German poet Fritz Reuter
7/20 November: 100th anniversary of the death of the Russian writer Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy
November 8: 100th birthday of the German writer Elfriede Brüning
November 8: British writer Sarah Fielding is 300th birthday

November 11th: 500th anniversary of the death of the poet Bohuslaus Lobkowicz von Hassenstein

November 15: 100th anniversary of the death of the German writer Wilhelm Raabe

December 11th: 200th birthday of the French romantic Alfred de Musset

December 19: 100th birthday of the French writer Jean Genet

December 19: 100th birthday of the Cuban writer José Lezama Lima

New releases

Everything about Sally - Arno Geiger
Anathema - Neal Stephenson
Until (s) the first ray of sunshine - The short second life of Bree Tanner - Stephenie Meyer
Black Out - Andreas Eschbach
Blind Witnesses - Stuart MacBride
The Burning Land - Bernard Cornwell
The humiliation - Philip Roth
German son - Alexander Wallasch , Ingo Niermann
Germany is closing down - Dietmar Dath
Erebos - Ursula Poznanski
Purgatory - Sofi Oksanen
Freelander - Miljenko Jergović
Freedom - Jonathan Franzen
Garou - Leonie Swann
Goldstein. Gereon Rath's third case - Volker Kutscher
Hanna's sleeping dogs - Elisabeth Escher
Kicker in Dress - David Walliams
The cook - Martin Suter
Rag novel - Roberto Bolaño
Margo's footsteps - John Green
Near zero - Natan Dubowizki (d. I .: Wladislaw Surkow )
Nothing - Janne Teller
Of Thee I Sing - Barack Obama
Oksa Pollock - Anne Plichota and Cendrine Wolf
The Omega Point - Don DeLillo
Pentito - A Mafioso unpacks - Marco Bettini
Raven love - Peter Wawerzinek
Reckless. Stone meat - Cornelia Funke and Lionel Wigram
Romanzo Criminale - Giancarlo De Cataldo
Faster than Death - Josh Bazell
Solar - Ian McEwan
The City & The City - China Miéville
Days of the Dead - Don Winslow
Days like this - compilation of three stories
Pigeons fly up - Melinda Nadj Abonji
The dead man in the village pond - Franziska Gehm
Totengrund - Tess Gerritsen
Tschick - Wolfgang Herrndorf
Worlds - Iain Banks
Wolves - Hilary Coat
The room - Andreas Maier
Between night and dark - Stephen King

Non-fiction

Outrage! - Stéphane Hessel
The enemy of all: the pirate and the law - Daniel Heller-Roazen
Hooray, we can pay - Ulrike Herrmann
Congo: A Story - David Van Reybrouck

Further literature

Drafts for a third diary - Max Frisch (posthumous)
Odysseus, criminal. (Drama) - Christoph Ransmayr
WHITE (essay) - Ken'ya Hara

Died

January 1st - Freya von Moltke
January 4th - Bobi Zankow
January 5th - Gisela Kraft
January 8 - Eugenie Cain
January 12th - Georges Anglade
January 13 - Konrad Reich
January 17th - Kurt Bartsch
January 17th - Erich Segal
January 18 - Robert B. Parker
January 19 - Vladimir Karpov
January 19 - Abraham Sutzkever
January 26 - Louis Auchincloss
January 27 - JD Salinger
January 31 - Tomás Eloy Martínez
February 7 - William Tenn
February 14 - Dick Francis
February 17th - Curt Letsche
February 22nd - Zdena Frýbová
February 23 - Mervyn Jones
March 12 - Miguel Delibes
March 12th - Ernst Herhaus
April 4th - Rudy Kousbroek
April 9 - Inoue Hisashi
April 9 - Kerstin Thorvall
April 14th - Erika Burkart
April 14 - Alice Miller
April 16 - Carlos Franqui
April 17 - Josef W. Janker
April 19 - Heinz Gappmayr
April 23 - Jan Balabán
April 23 - Peter Porter
April 25 - Alan Sillitoe
April 28th - Pierre-Jean Rémy
April 28th - Stefania Grodzieńska
May 3 - Peter O'Donnell
May 13th - Ilse Pohl
May 18 - Edoardo Sanguineti
May 20 - Robert Tralins
May 23 - Mikhail Shatrov
May 28th - Pál Békés
June 1 - Andrei Voznesensky
June 3 - João Aguiar
June 14th - Frithjof Fratzer
June 17th - Christoph Wagner
June 18 - José Saramago
June 21 - Manfred Römbell
June 26th - Adam Zielinski
June 27 - Andreas Okopenko
July 2 - Beryl Bainbridge
July 6th - Matilde Rosa Araújo
July 6 - Jan Blokker
July 12th - Tuli Kupferberg
July 16 - Bernhard C. Bünker
July 26th - Brigitte Schwaiger
August 3 - Jaime Semprun
August 10 - Nancy Freedman
August 14 - Herman Franke
August 15 - Ghazi al-Gosaibi
August 17th - Frank Kermode
August 17th - Ludvík Kundera
August 18 - Mori Sumio
August 21 - Rodolfo Fogwill
August 27 - Ravindra Kelekar
August 29 - Albert Cornelis Baantjer
September 10 - EC Tubb
September 11th - Tadeus Pfeifer
October 5 - Bernard Clavel
October 14th - Heinrich Pleticha
October 20 - Eva Ibbotson
October 20 - Robert Katz
October 24 - Georges Haldas
October 25 - Vesna Parun
October 30th - Harry Mulisch
November 7th - Swetlana Geier
November 9th - Vitus B. Dröscher
November 15 - Angèle Rawiri
November 20 - Walter Helmut Fritz
November 21 - Adelheid Dahimène
November 29 - Bella Achmadulina
December 5 - David French
December 15 - Peter O. Chotjewitz
December 20 - Wolfgang Kudrnofsky
December 30th - Thomas Funck

Literature prizes 2010

German literary prizes

Adelbert von Chamisso Prize : Terézia Mora ; Abbas Khider and Nino Harativili (sponsorship award)

Anna Seghers Prize : Félix Bruzzone ; Andreas Schäfer

aspekte literature prize : Dorothee Elmiger for inviting the daring

Berlin Literature Prize : Sibylle Lewitscharoff

Bertolt Brecht Literature Prize : Albert Ostermaier

Calwer Hermann Hesse Prize for the literary magazine poet

Carl Zuckmayer Medal : Emine Sevgi Özdamar

Clemens Brentano Prize : Sven Hillenkamp for The End of Love. Feelings in the Age of Infinite Freedom

Corine (Literature Prize) :

Fiction: Hans Joachim Schädlich for Kokoschkin's journey

Audience award: Carla Federico for In the Land of Fire Flowers

Children's and young people's book: John Green for Margo's footsteps

World of images: Herlinde Koelbl for Mein Blick

Business book: Wolfgang Kersting for Defense of Liberalism

Future Prize: William Kamkwamba , Bryan Mealer for The Boy Who Catched the Wind. An African hero story

for the audio book by Jo Nesbø , Leopard , read by Burghart Klaußner

Honorary award from the Bavarian Prime Minister: Herbert Rosendorfer for his life's work

German Book Prize : Melinda Nadj Abonji for pigeons fly up

German Narrator Award (2008) : Lutz Seiler for Die Erzählwaage

German Youth Literature Award :

Stian Hole (text, illustration) for Garman's Summer (picture book)
Jean Regnaud (text), Émile Bravo (illustration), My mother is in America and has Buffalo Bill made (children's book)
Nadia Budde (text, illustration), choose something, but hurry up! (Youth book)
Christian Nürnberger , Courageous People (non-fiction book)
Suzanne Collins , The Hunger Games (children's book)
Mirjam Pressler for her complete works (special award)

German Science Fiction Prize : Karsten Kruschel for Vilm. The rain planet , Vilm. The natives

Friedrich Gundolf Prize : Şara Sayın

Friedrich Hölderlin Prize of the City of Bad Homburg : Georg Kreisler , Sponsorship Prize: Eva Baronsky

Fritz Reuter Prize (Hamburg) : Arnold Hückstädt

Georg Büchner Prize : Reinhard Jirgl

Gerty Spies Literature Prize : Günter Wallraff

Geschwister-Scholl-Prize : Joachim Gauck for winter in summer - spring in autumn. memories

Gustav Heinemann Peace Prize for books for children and young people : Grit Poppe for blocked off

Hannelore Greve Literature Prize : Lea Singer

Heimito von Doderer Literature Prize : Anna Katharina Hahn and Heinrich Steinfest

Heinrich Heine Prize (City of Düsseldorf) : Simone Veil

Heinrich Mann Prize : Michael Maar

Hermann Kesten Prize : Liu Xiaobo

Hilde Domin Prize for Literature in Exile : Oleg Jurjew

Hoffmann von Fallersleben Prize : Herta Müller

Radio play award of the war blind : Thilo Reffert , for the security of a closed passenger cell

Horst Bienek Prize for Poetry : Friederike Mayröcker

Hotlist : Flamingos by Ulrike Almut Sandig

Ida Dehmel Literature Prize : Ulla Hahn

International Literature Prize - House of World Cultures : Marie NDiaye as the author and Claudia Kalscheuer as the translator of Three Strong Women

Jakob Wassermann Literature Prize : Feridun Zaimoglu

Joachim Ringelnatz Prize : Wulf Kirsten

Johann Heinrich Merck Prize : Karl-Markus Gauß

Johann Heinrich Voss Prize for Translation : Zsuzsanna Gahse

Joseph Breitbach Prize : Michael Krüger

Kassel Literature Prize : Herbert Achternbusch

Kleist Prize : Ferdinand von Schirach

Kranichsteiner Literature Prize : Anne Weber ; André Rudolph (sponsorship award)

Kurd-Laßwitz-Prize : Andreas Eschbach for A King for Germany

Kurt Wolff Prize : Klaus Wagenbach ; Verlag Voland & Quist (sponsorship award)

Leipzig Book Prize for European Understanding : György Dalos

LiBeraturpreis : Claudia Piñeiro for Elena knows

Literature Prize of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation : Cees Nooteboom

Literature and translation prize “Brücke Berlin” : László Krasznahorkai as the author and Heike Flemming as the translator of Seiobo auf Earth

Mainz town clerk : Josef Haslinger

Mara Cassens Prize : Sabrina Janesch for Katzenberge

Marie Luise Kaschnitz Prize : Mirko Bonné

Max Herrmann Prize : Inge Jens

Nicolas Born Prize : Gerd-Peter Eigner ; Sponsorship award: Leif Randt

Paul Celan Prize : Rosemarie Tietze

Peter Huchel Prize : Friederike Mayröcker for this little jacket (namely) from Vogel Greif

Leipzig Book Fair Prize :

Georg Klein for the novel of our childhood (fiction)
Ulrich Raulff for Kreis ohne Meister (non-fiction book and essay writing)
Ulrich Blumenbach : David Foster Wallace , for Infinite Fun as a translator

LiteraTour North Prize : Matthias Politycki

Prize of the literary houses : Thomas Kapielski

Prize of the SWR best list : Patrick Modiano

Pied Piper Literature Prize : Felicitas Hoppe , for Iwein Löwenritter

Rheingau Literature Prize : Jochen Schimmang

Siegfried Unseld Prize : Sari Nusseibeh and Amos Oz

Thomas Mann Prize : Christa Wolf

Translator bar : Jürgen Dormagen at Suhrkamp-Verlag

Translator award from the Kunststiftung NRW : Sabine Baumann

Uwe Johnson Prize : Christa Wolf for City of Angels

Walter Hasenclever Literature Prize : Ralf Rothmann

Wilhelm Raabe Literature Prize : Andreas Maier for Das Zimmer

Wolfgang Koeppen Prize : Joachim Lottmann

Würth Prize for European Literature : Ilija Trojanow

International literary prizes

Anton Wildgans Prize : Alois Hotschnig
Bill Duthie Booksellers' Choice Award : Brian Brett , Trauma Farm: A Rebel History of Rural Life
Bisto Book of the Year Award : Marie-Louise Fitzpatrick for There
Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize : Ian McEwan , Solar
Cervantes Prize : Ana María Matute
Constantijn Huygensprijs : AL Snijders
Danuta Gleed Literary Award : Sarah Roberts , Wax Boats
Erich Fried Prize : Terézia Mora
European Prize for Literature : Tony Harrison
Finlandia Prize : Mikko Rimminen , Nenäpäivä
Franz Kafka Literature Prize : Václav Havel
Governor General's Award for Fiction : Dianne Warren , Cool Water
Grand Prix de la Francophonie de l'Académie Française : Jean Métellus
Hans Christian Andersen Prize : David Almond (Author); Jutta Bauer (illustrator)
Ingeborg Bachmann Prize : Peter Wawerzinek
International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award : Boven is het stil by Gerbrand Bakker
Irish Book Awards (selection):
- Novel: Emma Donoghue , Room
- Youth book: Derek Landy , Skulduggery Pleasant : Mortal Coil
- Sports book: Johnny Giles , A Football Man - My Autobiography
- Lifetime Achievement Award: Maeve Binchy
Kerry Group Irish Fiction Award : John Banville for The Infinities
Critics' prizes (Denmark) : Christina Hesselholdt for Camilla - og resten af selskabet

Critic prizes (Norway) : Beate Grimsrud for En dåre fri

Leo Perutz Prize : Stefan Slupetzky

Nordic Council Literature Prize : Sofi Oksanen , Puhdistus ( Purgatory )

Lieutenant Governor's Award for Literary Excellence : Stan Persky

Man Booker Prize for Fiction : Howard Jacobson , The Finkler Question

Matt Cohen Prize : Myrna Kostash

Merano Poetry Prize : Andre Rudolph

Nadal Literature Prize : Clara Sánchez , Lo que esconde tu nombre

National Book Award :

Jaimy Gordon : Lord of Misrule (prose)
Patti Smith : Just Kids (non-fiction book)
Terrance Hayes : Lighthead (lyrics)
Kathryn Erskine : Mockingbird (children's book)

Nike :

Tadeusz Słobodzianek : Nasza klasa (main prize)
Magdaleny Grochowskiej : Jerzy Giedroyc. Do Polski ze snu (audience award)

Nobel Prize in Literature : Mario Vargas Llosa

O Henry Prize : Daniyal Mueenuddin : A Spoiled Man ; James Lasdun : Oh, Death ; William Trevor : The Woman of the House

Orange Prize for Fiction : Barbara Kingsolver for The Lacuna

Orwell Award : Michael Pollan

Orwell Prize : Andrea Gillies for Keeper

Austrian State Prize for European Literature : Paul Nizon

Palle Rosenkrantz Prize : Jo Nesbø

PEN / Faulkner Award : Sherman Alexie , War Dances

Petrarca Prize : Erri De Luca - Pierre Michon

Prémio Camões : Ferreira Gullar

Premio Planeta : Eduardo Mendoza , Riña de gatos

Prince of Asturias Prize for Literature: Amin Maalouf

Prix Femina : Patrick Lapeyre , La vie est brève et le désir sans fin

Prix Femina Étranger : Sofi Oksanen , Purge ( Purgatory )

Prix de Flore : Abdellah Taïa for Le Jour du roi

Prix Goncourt (novel) : La carte et le territoire by Michel Houellebecq

Prix Mallarmé : Robert Marteau , Le Temps ordinaire

Prix Médicis : Maylis de Kerangal , Naissance d'un pont

Prix Médicis étranger : David Vann , Sukkwan Island

Pulitzer Prize :

Paul Harding : Tinkers (novel)
Tom Kitt / Brian Yorkey : Next to Normal (Drama)
Rae Armantrout : Versed (lyrics)
David E. Hoffman : The Dead Hand. The Untold Story of the Cold War Arms Race and Its Dangerous Legacy (nonfiction)