Literature year 2011

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Events

17th to 20th March: Leipzig Book Fair
2nd to 5th June: Mainz mini press fair
12-16 October: Frankfurt Book Fair ; Host country: Iceland

Birthdays and anniversaries

January 8: 200th anniversary of the death of the German writer Friedrich Nicolai
January 10: 200th anniversary of the death of the French writer Marie-Joseph Chénier
March 13: 300th anniversary of the death of the French writer Nicolas Boileau
March 17th: 200th birthday of the German writer Karl Gutzkow
March 24th: 200th birthday of the German writer Fanny Lewald
April 26th / 7th May: 300th birthday of the British philosopher David Hume
April 26: 300th birthday of the French writer Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont
May 11: 200th birthday of the German writer Theodor Apel
May 15: 100th birthday of the Swiss writer Max Frisch
June 14: 200th birthday of the American writer Harriet Beecher Stowe
June 17th: 200th birthday of the French writer Adolphe d'Ennery
July 28: 200th anniversary of the death of the Austrian writer Heinrich Joseph von Collin
August 30: 200th birthday of the French writer Théophile Gautier
September 17th: 200th birthday of the Swedish writer August Theodor Blanche
October 22: 200th birthday of the Danish poet Hans Peter Holst
October 26: 400th birthday of the Spanish writer Antonio Coello
November 18: 400th birthday of the German poet Andreas Tscherning
November 21: 200th anniversary of the death of the German poet Heinrich von Kleist
November 21: 200th anniversary of the death of the German writer Henriette Vogel

New releases

Fiction

Agent 6 - Tom Rob Smith
The old king in his exile - Arno Geiger
The pick - Ally Condie
Azazel - Youssef Ziedan
The ascent of the Eiger north face under a staircase - Max Scharnigg
Organic War - Paolo Bacigalupi
Blood - Tony Birch
Blumenberg - Sibylle Lewitscharoff
Cherryman chases Mister White - Jakob Arjouni
The Third Reich - Roberto Bolaño
The Dark Throne - Rebecca Gablé
Dark Blood - Stuart MacBride
The Collini - Ferdinand von Schirach case
Free table - Uwe Timm
The cemetery in Prague - Umberto Eco
The Secret of the White Ribbon - Anthony Horowitz
Allow me, Mr Stink - David Walliams
The good Lord Jesus and the villain Christ - Philip Pullman
The neck of the giraffe - Judith Schalansky
The house - Andreas Maier
The bright days - Zsuzsa Bánk
Lord of all things - Andreas Eschbach
HHhH - Laurent Binet
Hide Out - Andreas Eschbach
Homer & Langley - Edgar Lawrence Doctorow
The centenarian who climbed out the window and disappeared - Jonas Jonasson
iBoy - Kevin Brooks
In times of waning light - Eugen Ruge
The Island of Ultimate Truth - Flavia Company
Jacob decides to love - Catalin Dorian Florescu
Map and territory - Michel Houellebecq
The labyrinth of dreaming books - Walter Moers
Léon and Louise - Alex Capus
The lights of Bullet Park (NA) - John Cheever
My happy life - Rose Lagercrantz and Eva Eriksson
Nemesis - Philip Roth
Nine Dragons - Michael Connelly
The President's oranges - Abbas Khider
The Pale King - David Foster Wallace
Percy Jackson - The Last Goddess - Rick Riordan
Plan D - Simon Urban
Princess Leia Strikes Back - Carrie Fisher
Room - Emma Donoghue
Rico, Oskar and the theft stone - Andreas Steinhöfel

Saeculum - Ursula Poznanski

Sams in luck - Paul Maar

Sand - Wolfgang Herrndorf

Schmidt's insight - Louis Begley

Lap Prayers - Charlotte Roche

Story of Your Life - Ted Chiang

Trash - Andy Mulligan

Putrefaction - Simon Beckett

From the end of a story - Julian Barnes

Weiskern's estate - Christoph Hein

drama

Non-fiction

Anti-Freud - Michel Onfray
The revolt of conscience - Jean Ziegler
Bloody summer. A trip to Germany during the Thirty Years War - William Crowne (1637)
Evil Philosophers - Philipp Blom
Eating Dirt - Charlotte Gill
Homicide: A Year on Murderous Roads - David Simon
Invasions of the Private - Anna Kim
Kotzebue's Dramas - A Lexicon
War or Peace - Hamed Abdel-Samad
Left-wing extremists - Germany's underestimated danger? - Harald Bergsdorf and Rudolf van Hüllen
The mother of success - Amy Chua
The Next Decade - George Friedman
It has never been more wonderful to live (memoir) - Emmanuel Duke of Croÿ
(R) real guys - Andreas Kemper
Read moods. About a hidden reality of literature (essays) - Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht
Why is there everything and not nothing? - Richard David Precht
Do you want to be normal or happy? - Robert Betz

Died

0January 3: Eva Strittmatter
0January 4th: Hadayatullah Pretty
0January 4th: Dick King-Smith
0January 7th: Carlos Castro
January 10th: María Elena Walsh
January 20: Reynolds Price
January 22nd: Pak Wanso
January 24th: Peter-Paul Zahl
0February 1: Takis Varvitsiotis
0February 3: Édouard Glissant
0February 5th: Brian Jacques
0February 6th: Andrée Chedid
0February 7th: Wolfgang Deichsel
0February 9: Stephan-Lutz Tobatzsch
February 11th: Bo Carpelan
February 16: Hans Joachim Alpers
February 16: Justinas Marcinkevičius
February 26th: Arnošt Lustig
0March 2: Thor Vilhjálmsson
0March 3: Friedhelm Kemp
0March 6th: Agnes-Marie Grisebach
March 10: David Viñas
March 12: Günter Amendt
March 13: Andreas Franz
March 24th: Lanford Wilson
March 27: HRF Keating
March 29: Iakovos Kambanellis
0April 8: Dominique Desanti
April 25: Gonzalo Rojas
April 30th: Ernesto Sabato
0May 1st: Helmut Windisch
0May 5: Arthur Laurents
0May 9: Newton Thornburg
May 10: Patrick Galvin
May 14th: Birgitta Defiant
May 23: Roberto Sosa
May 25: Leonora Carrington
May 27: Gil Scott-Heron
May 28: Mallika Sengupta
May 31: Hans Keilson
0June 4th: Curth Flatow
0June 7th: Jorge Semprún
June 10: Patrick Leigh Fermor
June 12: Kati-Claudia Fofonoff
June 14: Walter Flegel
June 16: Tölögön Kasymbekow
June 21: EM Broner
0July 5th: Theodore Roszak
0July 7: Allan W. Eckert
0July 9: Facundo Cabral
0July 9: Arvo Salo
July 26th: Sakyō Komatsu
July 27th: Ágota Kristóf
August 19: Gil Courtemanche
August 22nd: Vicco von Bülow
August 25: Petre Bakevski
August 27: NF Simpson
0September 3: Volker Krämer
0September 9: Valentino Braitenberg
0September 9: Horst Fuhrmann
September 13: Daniel Keel
September 13: Alice Vollenweider
September 16: Friedel Thiekötter
September 20: John Burke
September 20: Annika Idström
September 27: Sara Douglass
September 27: Ida Fink
September 29th: Hella Haasse
0October 1: Ruby Langford Ginibi
0October 4th: Vittorio Curtoni
October 11th: Tine Schulze-Gerlach
October 18: Friedrich Kittler
October 18: Andrea Zanzotto
October 22: Barbara König
October 24th: Morio Kita
October 26: Janko Messner
October 28: Jiří Gruša
0November 1: Heinz Ludwig Arnold
0November 3: HG Francis
0November 7th: F. Springer
November 10: Ivan Martin Jirous
November 12th: Hermann Herder
November 12: Hubert Nyssen
November 14th: Franz Josef Degenhardt
November 20: Shelagh Delaney
November 21: Oddur Björnsson
November 22nd: Georg Kreisler
November 24th: Ludwig Hirsch
0December 1: Christa Wolf
0December 3: Sabri Godo
0December 4th: Matti Y. Joensuu
0December 7th: Josip Barković
0December 8: Gilbert Adair
0December 8th: Werner Kofler
December 10th: Andres Ehin
December 11th: Hans Heinz Holz
December 13th: Russell Hoban
December 15: Christopher Hitchens
December 18: Václav Havel
December 19: Horst-Eberhard Richter
December 20: Hana Androníková
December 25th: John Christoffel Kannemeyer
December 27th: Michael Dummett

Literature Awards 2011

German literary prizes

The most frequently awarded German literary prize in 2011 was: Sibylle Lewitscharoff .

Adelbert von Chamisso Prize : Jean Krier (main prize); Olga Martynova and Nicol Ljubić (sponsorship award)
Alfred Döblin Prize : Jan Peter Bremer
aspekte literature prize : Eugen Ruge for In times of waning light
Author's Prize of the Heidelberger Stückemarkt : Berkun Oya for beautiful things are on our side
Berlin Literature Prize : Thomas Lehr
Berlin Prize for Literary Criticism : Joseph Hanimann
Bremen Literature Prize : Friederike Mayröcker , I'm in the institution. Footnotes to an unwritten work ; Andrea Grill , The beautiful and the necessary (sponsorship award)
Carl Amery Literature Prize : Ilija Trojanow
Carl Zuckmayer Medal : Hans Werner Kilz
Clemens Brentano Prize : Wolfgang Herrndorf , Tschick
Corine (Literature Prize) :
- Fiction: John Burnside for lying about my father
- Audience award: Juliane Koepcke for When I fell from heaven
- Children's and young people's book: Kate De Goldi for the evening at 10
- World of images: Elke Heidenreich , Tom Krausz for Dylan Thomas - Welsh. Poet. drinker
- Economics book: Peter D. Schiff , Andrew J. Schiff for How an economy grows ... and why it crashes
- Future Prize: António Damásio for Self is the human being - body, mind and the emergence of human consciousness
- Audiobook: Axel Hacke , Ursula Mauder for The best of my love life. Stories and songs about love in good and bad days
- Honorary award from the Bavarian Prime Minister: Christine Nöstlinger for her life's work
Buddenbrookhaus's debut award : Nino Harati vili for Juja
German Book Prize : In Times of Waning Light by Eugen Ruge
German Youth Literature Award (selection):
- Picture book: The story of the fox who lost his mind by Martin Baltscheit
- Youth book: Tschick by Wolfgang Herrndorf
- Prize of the youth jury: Erebos by Ursula Poznanski
- Special prize, for the complete work: Tobias Scheffel (translator)
German Science Fiction Prize : Uwe Post : Walpar Tonnraffir and the index finger of God
Evangelical Book Prize : Michael Kleeberg , The American Hospital
Friedrich Gundolf Prize : Feliu Formosa
Friedrich-Hölderlin-Prize of the City of Bad Homburg : Arno Geiger (main prize), Daniela Seel (sponsorship prize)
Friedrich-Hölderlin-Prize of the university and the university city of Tübingen : Jan Wagner
Georg Büchner Prize : Friedrich Christian Delius
Gerty Spies Literature Prize : Christoph Hein
Geschwister-Scholl-Preis : For one song and one hundred songs. A testimony from Chinese prisons. by Liao Yiwu
Goethe Prize of the City of Frankfurt am Main : Ali Ahmad Said
Gustav Heinemann Peace Prize for books for children and young people : Kirsten Boie for Ringel, Rangel, Rosen
Heinrich Mann Prize : Marie-Luise Scherer
Hermann Kesten Prize : Mohamed Hashem
Radio play award of the war blind : fate, main thing fate. by Robert Schoen with Lorenz Eberle
Hotlist : My gentle twin from Nino Harativili
Italo Svevo Prize : Volker H. Altwasser
Jean Paul Prize : Brigitte Kronauer
Johann Gottfried Seume Literature Prize : Peter Winterhoff-Spurk , Babylon Company. How globalization endangers the soul
Johann Heinrich Merck Prize : Günter de Bruyn
Johann Heinrich Voss Prize for Translation : Frank Günther
Joseph Breitbach Prize : Hans Joachim Schädlich
Kassel Literature Prize : Thomas Kapielski (main prize); Jan Neumann (sponsorship award)
Kleist Prize : Sibylle Lewitscharoff
Kleist sponsorship award : Wolfram Lotz for The Great March
Kranichsteiner Literature Prize : Jan Wagner
Krimifuchs: Volker Kutscher
Kurd-Laßwitz-Prize : Uwe Post , Walpar Tonnraffir and the index finger of God
Kurt Wolff Prize : Transit Buchverlag , Lilienfeld Verlag (sponsorship award)
Leipzig Book Prize for European Understanding : Martin Pollack
LiBeraturpreis : Nathalie Abi-Ezzi for Ruba's secret
Literature Prize of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation : Arno Geiger
Literature Prize of the City of Munich : Keto von Waberer
Ludwig Börne Prize : Joachim Gauck
Mainz town clerk : Ingo Schulze
Marieluise Fleißer Prize : Sibylle Lewitscharoff
Max Herrmann Prize : Georg Siebeck
Mülheim Dramatist Prize : Elfriede Jelinek for Winterreise
Nicolas Born Prize : Peter Waterhouse ; Sponsorship award: Sabrina Janesch
Paul Celan Prize : Mirjana and Klaus Wittmann
Peter Huchel Prize : Marion Poschmann , Ghost Vision
postpoetry.NRW : Marius Hulpe , Marie T. Martin , Jovan Nikolić , Ralf Thenior , Christoph Wenzel
Leipzig Book Fair Prize :
- Clemens J. Setz (fiction) for love at the time of the Mahlstädter child
- Henning Ritter (non-fiction / essay writing) for notebooks
- Barbara Conrad (translation) for Tolstoy's War and Peace
LiteraTour North Prize : Iris Hanika
Prize of the literary houses : Elke Erb
Prize of the city of Münster for European poetry : Ben Lerner / Steffen Popp : Die Lichtenbergfiguren
Prize of the SWR best list : Aris Fioretos
Rheingau Literature Prize : Josef Haslinger
Ricarda Huch Prize : Sibylle Lewitscharoff
Schubart Literature Prize : Hans Christoph Buch ; Timo Brunke (sponsorship award); Bernd Jürgen Warneken (special award)
Thomas Mann Prize : Jan Assmann
Translator award from the Kunststiftung NRW : Terézia Mora
Uwe Johnson Prize : Judith Zander for things we said today (sponsorship award)
Walter Serner Prize : Ralf Thies for The Golden Ford
Wilhelm Lehmann Prize : Nico Bleutge
Wilhelm Raabe Literature Prize : Sibylle Lewitscharoff for Blumenberg
Wolfgang Weyrauch Award : Jan Volker Röhnert and Andre Rudolph

International literary prizes

Anna Seghers Prize : Sabrina Janesch and Lina Meruane
Anton Wildgans Prize : Arno Geiger
Aschehoug Literature Prize : Bjørn Sortland
Astrid Lindgren Memorial Prize : Shaun Tan
August Prize (specialist book): Elisabeth Åsbrink for Och i Wienerwald står träden kvar (German: And the trees are still standing in the Vienna Woods )
Bisto Book of the Year Award : Chris Haughton for A Bit Lost
Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize : Gary Shteyngart for Super Sad True Love Story
Carnegie Medal : Patrick Ness , Monsters of Men
Cervantes Prize : Nicanor Parra
Compton Crook Award : State of Decay by James Knapp
Constantijn Huygensprijs : AFTh. van der Heijden
Cordwainer Smith Rediscovery Award : Katherine MacLean
Danuta Gleed Literary Award : Billie Livingston , Greedy Little Eyes
David Cohen Prize : Julian Barnes
De Gyldne Laurbær : Helle Helle for Dette burde skrives i nutid
Erich Fried Prize : Thomas Stangl
European Prize for Literature : Drago Jančar
FIL Prize : Fernando Vallejo
Finlandia Prize : Rosa Liksom for Hytti nro 6
Franz Kafka Literature Prize : John Banville
Frost Medal : Charles Simic
Gert Jonke Prize : Alois Hotschnig
Governor General's Award for Fiction : Patrick deWitt , The Sisters Brothers
Grand Prix de la Francophonie de l'Académie Française : Abdellatif Laabi
Grand prix de littérature policy :
- National: L'Honorable Société by DOA and Dominique Manotti
- International: Le Poète de Gaza (OA and German: Limassol ) by Yishai Sarid
Griffin Poetry Prize :
- Canada: Dionne Brand for Ossuaries
- International: Gjertrud Schnackenberg for Heavenly Questions
- Lifetime Achievement Award: Yves Bonnefoy
Guardian Award : Andy Mulligan for Return to Ribblestrop
Guardian First Book Award : Siddhartha Mukherjee for The Emperor of All Maladies
Ingeborg Bachmann Prize : Maja Haderlap for Im Kessel
International Literature Prize - House of World Cultures : Michail Schischkin (author) and Andreas Tretner (translator) for Das Venushaar
International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award : Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann
Irish Book Awards (selection):
- Novel: Neil Jordan for Mistaken
- Sports book: Nicolas Roche for Inside the Peloton
- Life's work: Seamus Heaney
Jerusalem Prize : Ian McEwan
Kerry Group Irish Fiction Award : Neil Jordan for Mistaken
Critics' prizes (Denmark) : Lars Frost for Skønvirke
Critic prizes (Norway) : Merethe Lindstrøm for Dager i stillhetens historie

Leo Perutz Prize : The Posamentenhändler of Koytek / Stein

Lieutenant Governor's Award for Literary Excellence : George Bowering

Nordic Council Literature Prize : Milli trjánna by Gyrðir Elíasson

Man Booker Prize for Fiction : The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes

Man Booker International Prize : Philip Roth

Matt Cohen Prize : David Adams Richards

Murasaki Shikibu Literature Prize : Yōko Tawada for Nisō to kyūppido no yumi

Nadal Literature Prize : Alicia Giménez Bartlett for Donde nadie te encuentre

National Book Award :

Fiction: Jesmyn Ward for Salvage the Bones
Nonfiction: Stephen Greenblatt for The Swerve: How the World Became Modern
Poetry: Nikky Finney for Head Off & Split
Young People's Literature: Thanhha Lai for Inside Out & Back Again
Lifetime achievement award: John Ashbery

Newbery Medal : Clare Vanderpool for Moon Over Manifest

Nike :

Main prize: Pióropusz by Marian Pilot
Audience Award: Dziennik 1962–1969 by Sławomir Mrożek

Nobel Prize for Literature : Tomas Tranströmer

O. Henry Prize (selection):

Your Fate Hurtles Down at You by Jim Shepard
Diary of an Interesting Year by Helen Simpson
Melinda by Judy Doenges

Orange Prize for Fiction : Téa Ob shoots for The Tiger's Wife

Orwell Award : FS Michaels for Monoculture: How One Story is Changing Everything

Orwell Prize : Thomas Henry Bingham for The Rule of Law

Austrian State Prize for European Literature : Javier Marías

Palle Rosenkrantz Prize : Jean-Christophe Grangé for Forbarm dig

PC Hooft Prize : Henk Hofland

PEN / Faulkner Award : Deborah Eisenberg for The Collected Stories of Deborah Eisenberg

Petrarch Prize : John Burnside and Florjan Lipuš

Prize of the City of Vienna for Literature : Brigitta Falkner

Premio Alfaguara de Novela : Juan Gabriel Vásquez for El ruido de las cosas al caer

Prémio Camões : Manuel António Pina

Premio Planeta : Javier Moro for El imperio eres tú

Prince of Asturias Prize for Literature: Leonard Cohen

Prix Claude-Farrère : Marie-Odile Beauvais

Prix Femina : Simon Liberati for Jayne Mansfield 1967

Prix Femina Essai : Laure Murat for L'Homme qui se prenait pour Napoléon: Pour une histoire politique de la folie

Prix Femina Étranger : Francisco Goldman for Director son nom

Prix Goncourt (novel) : L'Art français de la guerre by Alexis Jenni

Prix Mallarmé : Annie Salager ( Travaux de lumière )

Prix Médicis : Mathieu Lindon , Ce qu'aimer veut dire

Prix Médicis étranger : David Grossman , Une femme fuyant l'annonce

Prix Renaudot : Limonow by Emmanuel Carrère

Pulitzer Prize for Fiction : A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan

Pulitzer Prize for Drama : Bruce Norris for Clybourne Park

Rauris Literature Prize : Dorothee Elmiger for invitation to the daring ; Advancement award for Martin Amanshauser

Riksmålsforbundets litteraturpris : Tomas Espedal (acceptance rejected)

Riverton Prize : Torkil Damhaug for Ildmannen

Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize : Patrick deWitt , The Sisters Brother

Rooney Prize for Irish Literature : Lucy Caldwell

Runeberg Prize : Tiina Raevaara for En tunne sinua vierelläni

Russian Booker Prize : Alexander Chudakov for Haze Sets Upon the Old Steps

Samuel Bogumil Linde Prize : Wiesław Myśliwski and Herta Müller

Swedish detective award :

Best crime novel translated into Swedish: The End of the Wasp Season by Denise Mina
Best Swedish detective novel: Viskleken by Arne Dahl
Lifetime Achievement Award: Reginald Hill