Literature year 2013

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Further events

Events

14.-17. March: Leipzig Book Fair
0April 2nd: International Children's Book Day
April 23: World Book Day
0May 3: The Austrian author Josef Haslinger is elected as the new president of the writers' association PEN Center Germany .
May: edition libica is founded in Vienna .
June 13: Bertelsmann announces that the publisher will cease direct sales of the Brockhaus Encyclopedia in mid-2014. The online updates and other commitments are expected to continue for six years. The encyclopedia goes back to a foundation by Friedrich Arnold Brockhaus in 1819, in 2009 Bertelsmann bought the Brockhaus brand .
June 16: Bloomsday
0July 1: Bertelsmann and Pearson merge to form the world's largest book publisher Penguin Random House
09-13 October: Frankfurt Book Fair ; Host country: Brazil
2013: Magellan Verlag is founded in Bamberg as a children's and youth book publisher .

2013: The Emys non-fiction prize for children's and young adult literature is established in Potsdam .

Birthdays and anniversaries

0January 8: 150th birthday of Paul Scheerbart (* 1863)
January 20: 200th anniversary of the death of Christoph Martin Wieland († 1813)
February 11: 50th anniversary of the death of Sylvia Plath († 1963)
February 26: 100th birthday of Hermann Lenz (* 1913)
March 12: 150th birthday of Gabriele D'Annunzio (* 1863)
March 18: 200th birthday of Friedrich Hebbel (* 1813)
April 10: 100th birthday of Stefan Heym (* 1913)
April 29: 150th birthday of Konstantinos Kavafis (* 1863)
0May 5: 200th anniversary of the death of Søren Kierkegaard († 1813)
July 19: 150th birthday of Hermann Bahr (* 1863)
August 26: 100th birthday (experiencing) of Boris Pahor (* 1913)
September 17: 150th anniversary of the death of Alfred de Vigny († 1863)
September 20: 150th anniversary of the death of Jacob Grimm († 1863)
0October 5th: 300th birthday of Denis Diderot (* 1713)
October 17th: 200th birthday of Georg Büchner (* 1813)
0November 7: 100th birthday of Albert Camus (* 1913)
November 14: 100th anniversary of the publication of Du côté de chez Swann by Marcel Proust (1913)
November 18: 150th birthday of Richard Dehmel (* 1863)
November 22: 50th anniversary of Aldous Huxley's death († 1963)
December 13: 150th anniversary of the death of Friedrich Hebbel († 1863)
December 21: 200th birthday of Philipp Galen (* 1813)
December 24: 150th anniversary of the death of William Thackeray († 1863)
unknown: 700th birthday of Giovanni Boccaccio († 1375)

New releases

Died

0January 1st: Günter Löffler
0January 2: Teresa Torańska
0January 3: Wolfgang Nehring
0January 5th: Gwendoline Butler
0January 5th: Sol Yurick
January 10: Evan S. Connell
January 11: Bernd Heimberger
January 11: Robert Kee
January 12th: Jean Krier
January 12th: Steven Utley
January 15: Jean-Bertrand Pontalis
January 17th: Jakob Arjouni
January 19: Hans-Jürgen Massaquoi
January 20: Jörg Steiner
January 21: İsmet Freestyle
January 23: Alex Koenigsmark
January 26th: Yasuoka Shōtarō
January 27th: Diethart Curbs
January 28: Ceija Stojka
January 29th: Anselm Hollo
0February 5th: Leda Milewa
0February 8: Renato Olivieri
February 10: Herbert Bruna
February 18: Friedrich Löchner
February 18: Otfried Preussler
February 20: Thomas Dormandy
February 20: Osmo A. Wiio
February 22nd: Heino Kiik
February 25th: Mykolas Sluckis
February 27: Stéphane Hessel
February 28: Frank Faber
0March 1: Campbell Armstrong
0March 5th: Adolf Himmel
0March 6: Tsuji Ryōichi
0March 6th: Jupp Weindich
March 11th: Boris Vasiliev
March 13: Anna Jonas
March 15: Richard Christ
March 16: Rascha Peper
March 18: Peter Ensikat
March 21: Chinua Achebe
March 24th: Barbara Anderson
March 25: Ellen Einan
March 25th: Jean-Marc Roberts
March 29: John J. Gumperz
0April 6: Wera kitchen master
0April 8: José Luis Sampedro
April 11th: Mbaye Gana Kébé
April 26th: Carol Beach York
April 30: Viviane Forrester
April 30: Andrew J. Offutt
April 30th: JM Ritchie
0May 2nd: Doreen Daume
0May 5th: Jürg Amann
0May 5th: Lotfi Dziri
0May 5th: Sarah Kirsch
May 17: T. Alan Broughton
May 20: Rufus C. Camphausen
May 22nd: Henning Rischbieter
May 26th: Jack Vance
May 30th: Güzin Dino
May 30th: Andrew Greeley
May 30th: Mario Wirz
0June 1st: Katrine von Hutten
0June 2nd: Hubert Wiedfeld
0June 6: Tom Sharpe
0June 8: John Boyd
0June 8: Yoram Kaniuk
0June 9: Iain M. Banks
0June 9: Walter Jens
June 10: Ralph Graves
June 16: Maurice Nadeau
June 17th: Michael Baigent
June 19: Vince Flynn
June 19: Marga Frank
June 19: Parke Godwin
June 22nd: Javier Tomeo
June 23: Richard Matheson
June 23: Henning Ritter
June 26th: Dumitru Matcovschi
June 29th: Guilherme de Melo
June 29th: Satimshan Sanbaev
0July 2nd: Brigitta Weiss
0July 3: Lisa Kahn
0July 4th: Bernardine Bishop
0July 5th: Paul Raabe
0July 6th: Juan Introini
0July 9: Milena Milani
0July 9: Barbara Robinson
July 10: Józef Gara
July 12th: Elaine Morgan
July 17: Henri Alleg
July 17th: Vincenzo Cerami
July 17th: Jack-Alain Léger
July 18: Ihor Katschurowskyj
July 19: Leyla Erbil
July 21: Ugo Riccarelli
July 21: Rolf Schwendter
July 23: Philipp Brucker
July 26th: Rolf Haufs
0August 4th: Sherko Bekas
0August 4th: Mari Vallisoo
0August 8: Douglas R. Mason ( John Rankine )
0August 8: Elizabeth Peters
0August 9: Urbano Tavares Rodrigues
August 15: Sławomir Mrożek
August 17th: Jan Ekström
August 17th: John Hollander
August 20: Elmore Leonard
August 20: Erik Neutsch
August 26th: Wolfgang Herrndorf
August 28: Mark McShane
August 30th: Seamus Heaney
August 30th: Klaus von See
0September 2: Frederik Pohl
0September 5: Manfred Kliem
0September 5th: Klaus Rohleder
0September 6: Ann C. Crispin
0September 9: Alberto Bevilacqua
September 11: Albert Jacquard
September 11th: Nic Weber
September 12: Erich Loest
September 17th: Martí de Riquer
September 18: Hans Daiber
September 18: Marcel Reich-Ranicki
September 19: Lazar Steinmetz
September 21: Kofi Awoonor
September 22nd: Christopher John Koch
September 22nd: Leonore Mau
September 22nd: Álvaro Mutis
September 23: Hugo Raes
September 23: António Ramos Rosa
September 25: Elisabeth Borchers
September 28: James Emanuel
0October 1: Tom Clancy
0October 2nd: Shun Akiyama
0October 3: Kurt Steinkrauss
0October 7th: Joanna Chmielewska
0October 8: Khady Sylla
0October 9: Mark Brandon Read
October 12: Oscar Hijuelos
October 12: Ulf Linde
October 15: Elisabeth Markstein
October 18: Janina Katz
October 22: William Harrison
October 23: Tim Griggs
October 25: Arthur C. Danto
October 31: Ingmar Brantsch
October 31: Gérard de Villiers
0November 4th: Lena Karpunina
0November 7th: Walter Fröhlich
0November 9th: Jürgen Leinemann
0November 9: Werner Marti
0November 9th: Georg P. Salzmann
November 10: Hermann Gutmann
November 10th: Giorgio Orelli
November 12th: Festus Iyayi
November 12th: Thomas Wieczorek
November 13th: Hans-Jürgen Heise
November 16: Michel Cointat
November 16: Zbyněk Hejda
November 17th: Doris Lessing
November 19: Charlotte Zolotow
November 20: Dieter Hildebrandt
November 20: Robert Reginald
November 24th: Serge Ehrensperger
November 24th: Gretl Keren Fischer
November 25th: Peter Kurzck
November 26th: Krista Kajar
November 27: Rudolf Lorenzen
November 27th: Wolf Jobst settlers
November 28: Wolfgang Müller
November 29: Dieter G. Eberl
November 29th: Natalia Gorbanevskaya
November 29th: Simon Ruge
0December 1st: André Schiffrin
0December 2nd: Iván Bächer
0December 2: Hilbert Schenck
0December 5th: Jean-Luc Benoziglio
0December 5th: Colin Wilson
0December 6th: Jean-Pierre Desthuilliers
0December 6th: Henri Maldiney
0December 9: Peter Urban
December 11th: Regina Derieva
December 12th: Chabua Amiredschibi
December 12th: Bernd Rebe
December 13: Hugh Nissenson
December 13: Horst Tomayer
December 14th: Janet Dailey
December 18: Paul Torday
December 19: Anke Schäfer
December 19: Ned Vizzini
December 22nd: Oscar Peer
December 24th: Helga M. Novak
December 25th: Peter Vujica
December 26th: Michel Tauriac
December 29th: Simon Yussuf Assaf
December 29th: CT Hsia
December 31: Denis Belloc
December 31: Irina Korschunow
anonymous: Francisco Asensi

Literature prizes 2013

German literary prizes

Adelbert von Chamisso Prize : Marjana Gaponenko ; Matthias Nawrat and Anila Wilms (sponsorship awards)
Alfred Döblin Prize : Saša Stanišić
Alfred Kerr Prize for literary criticism : Daniela Strigl
aspekte literature award : Eberhard Rathgeb for no couple like us
Berlin Literature Prize : Lukas Bärfuss
Berlin Prize for Literary Criticism : Lothar Müller
Bertolt Brecht Literature Prize : Ingo Schulze
Carl Amery Literature Prize : Ulrich Peltzer
Carl Zuckmayer Medal : Doris Dörrie
Clemens Brentano Prize : Philipp Schönthaler
Debut prize of the Buddenbrookhaus : Carmen Stephan for Mal Aria
DeLiA Literature Prize : Dark Canopy by Jennifer Benkau
German Book Prize : Terézia Mora for Das Ungeheuer
German narrator award : Gregor Sander for winter fish
German Science Fiction Prize :
- Best novel: The Artifact by Andreas Brandhorst
- Best story: To celebrate my death by Michael K. Iwoleit
Düsseldorf Literature Prize : Thomas Hettche
Eugen Helmlé Translator Award : Jürgen Ritte

Friedrich Hölderlin Prize of the City of Bad Homburg : Ralf Rothmann ; Arno Camenisch (sponsorship award)

Georg Büchner Prize : Sibylle Lewitscharoff

Georg K. Glaser Prize : Harald Martenstein

Gerty Spies Literature Prize : Eva Menasse

Günter Eich Prize for radio plays: Jürgen Becker

Heinrich Mann Prize : Robert Menasse

Heinrich Maria Ledig-Rowohlt Prize for translators : Bernhard Robben

Hermann Kesten Prize : Index on Censorship , organization for the defense of freedom of expression

Hilde Domin Prize for Literature in Exile : Abbas Khider

Hotlist : The Manon Lescaut from Turdej by Vsevolod Petrov (posthumous)

Italo Svevo Prize : Giwi Margwelaschwili

Johann Heinrich Merck Prize for literary criticism and essay : Wolfram Schütte

Joseph Breitbach Prize : Jenny Erpenbeck

Kassel Literature Prize : Wilhelm Genazino (main prize); Wolfram Lotz (sponsorship award)

Kleist Prize : Katja Lange-Müller

Kranichsteiner Literature Prize : Marica Bodrožić

Kurd Laßwitz Prize :

Best novel: Pulsarnacht by Dietmar Dath

Best story: In the cage by Klaus N. Frick

Best Foreign Novel: Hell Is The Absence Of God by Ted Chiang

Lessing Prize of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg :

Main prize winner: Wolfgang Schivelbusch
Scholarship holder: Finn-Ole Heinrich

Literature Prize of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation : Martin Mosebach

Literature Prize of the City of Bremen : Wolf Haas for Defense of the Missionary Position Advancement award to Andreas Stichmann for The Great Light

Literature Prize of the Kulturkreis der deutschen Wirtschaft : Clemens J. Setz (prose); Nora Gomringer (poetry)

Ruhr Literature Prize : Karl-Heinz Gajewsky for the Internet platform " Reviercast "

Lynx of the year : There are things that cannot be told about Kirsten Boie

Ludwig Börne Prize : Peter Sloterdijk

Marieluise Fleißer Prize : Rainald Goetz

Mülheim Dramatist Prize : Katja Brunner , Von den legs too short

Nicolas Born Prize : Gerhard Henschel ; Sponsorship award: Florian Kessler

Peter Huchel Prize for Poetry: Monika Rinck

The political book : Robert Menasse for Der Europäische Landbote. ...

postpoetry.NRW (selection): Bärbel Klässner , Manfred Sestendrup , Walter Wehner

Leipzig Book Fair Prize :

Fiction: David Wagner , Life
Non-fiction / essay writing: Helmut Böttiger , Die Gruppe 47. When German literature made history
Translation: Eva Hesse , translation from English by Ezra Pound : The Cantos

LiteraTour North Prize : Marica Bodrožić

Rahel Varnhagen von Ense Medal : Günther Rühle

Rheingau Literature Prize : Ralph Dutli

Robert Gernhardt Prize :

Paulus Böhmer for the volume of poetry Zum Wasser wants everything Water wants to go
Ricarda Junge for her novel The Last Warm Days

Roswitha Prize : Ulrike Draesner

Schiller Memorial Prize : Rainald Goetz

Silver feather : you don't see elephants from Susan Kreller

Thomas Mann Prize : July Zeh

The most unusual book title of the year : The girl with the pipe in the ear and the boy with the spoon in the neck by Volker Strübing

Uwe Johnson Prize : Matthias Senkel for Early Birds

Werner Bergengruen Prize : Kurt Drawert

Wilhelm Müller Prize : Angela Krauss

Wilhelm Raabe Literature Prize : Marion Poschmann for The Sun Position

Wolfgang Weyrauch Prize : Uljana Wolf and Tobias Roth

International literary prizes

AKO Literatuurprijs : Feest van het begin by Joke van Leeuwen
Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction : Canada by Richard Ford
Anisfield-Wolf Book Award (selection):
- Nonfiction: Far From the Tree by Andrew Solomon
Anton Wildgans Prize : Norbert Gstrein
Aschehoug Literature Prize : Erlend Loe
Astrid Lindgren Memorial Prize : Isol (Argentina)
Basel Poetry Prize : Elisabeth Wandeler-Deck
BNG Nieuwe Literatuurprijs : Wytske Versteeg for Boy
Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize : Howard Jacobson for Zoo Time
Wroclaw Poetry Prize Silesius :
- Complete works: Krystyna Miłobędzka
- Book of the year: Never całkowita utrata płynności by Marcin Baran
- Debut of the year: Splendida realta by Ilona Witkowska
Caldecott Medal : Jon Klassen for This is Not My Hat
Carnegie Medal : Sally Gardner for Maggot Moon
Cervantes Prize : Elena Poniatowska
Coburg Rückert Prize : Nihad Siris
Compton Crook Award : Control Point by Myke Cole
Cordwainer Smith Rediscovery Award : Wyman Guin
Costa Book Awards (selection):
- Novel: Life after Life by Kate Atkinson
- Children's book: Goth Girl and the Ghost of a Mouse by Chris Riddell
- Biography: The Pike: Gabriele D'Annunzio - Poet, Seducer and Preacher of War by Lucy Hughes-Hallett
Danuta Gleed Literary Award : Rebecca Lee for Bobcat and other stories
David Cohen Prize : Hilary Mantel
De Inktaap : Het voorseizoen by David Pefko
DR Novel Prize : Profeterne i Evighedsfjorden by Kim Leine
Duff Cooper Prize : The Pike: Gabriele D'Annunzio by Lucy Hughes-Hallett
Dylan Thomas Prize : Claire Vaye Watkins with Battleborn
Erich Fried Prize : Rainer Merkel
Ernst Jandl Prize for Poetry: Elke Erb
European Prize for Literature : Erri De Luca
FIL Prize : Yves Bonnefoy
Finlandia Prize : Jokapäiväinen elämme by Riikka Pelo
Franz Hessel Prize : Jonas Lüscher for his novella Spring of the Barbarians and Frédéric Ciriez for his novel Mélo
Franz Kafka Literature Prize : Amos Oz
Frost Medal : Robert Bly
Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize : A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing by Eimear McBride
Gert Jonke Prize : Händl Klaus and Friederike Roth
Geschwister-Scholl-Prize : Otto Dov Kulka for landscapes of the metropolis of death. Auschwitz and the limits of memory and imagination
Goldsmiths Prize : Eimear McBride for A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing
Gottfried Keller Prize : group of authors " Bern is everywhere "
Governor General's Award for Fiction : The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton
Grand prix de littérature policière (International): Le tueur se meurt (originally: The Killer is Dying ) by James Sallis
Griffin Poetry Prize :
- Canadian: David McFadden , What's the Score?
- International: Fady Joudah , translation of The Straw Bird It Follows Me, and Other Poems by Ghassan Zaqtan
Guardian First Book Award : The Spinning Heart by Donal Ryan
Gyldendalprisen : Øyvind Rimbereid
Helen and Kurt Wolff Translator Award : Philip Boehm for the translation of Gregor von Rezzori's novel An Hermelin in Tschernopol
Hertzogprys (prose): The aanspraak van lewende essens by Ingrid Winterbach
Hohenems Literature Prize :
- Main prize: Mrs. Kranž paints a picture of Hier by Saša Stanišić
- Recognition Award: runout of Léda Forgó
Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize : Geoff Meggs and Rod Mickleburgh , The Art of the Impossible: Dave Barrett and the NDP in Power, 1972–1975
Independent Foreign Fiction Prize : Gerbrand Bakker for The Detour (German: Der detour )
Ingeborg Bachmann Prize : Katja Petrowskaja
International Literature Prize - House of World Cultures : Teju Cole (author) and Christine Richter-Nilsson (translator) for Open City
International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award : Kevin Barry for City of Bohane
Irish Book Awards (selection):
- Novel: The Guts by Roddy Doyle
- Youth book: Last Stand of Dead Men by Derek Landy
- Sports book: Seven Deadly Sins by David Walsh
- Life's work: John Banville
Jerusalem Prize : Antonio Muñoz Molina
Crime Time leaderboard : Body Snatcher by Patrícia Melo
Critics' prizes (Denmark) : Niels Frank bogged for Nellies

Kritikerprisen (Norway) , Best Book: Øyvind Rimbereid for Orgelsjøen

LiBeraturpreis : Patrícia Melo for corpse thief

Libris Literature Prize : Dit zijn de namen by Tommy Wieringa

Lieutenant Governor's Award for Literary Excellence : Lorna Crozier and Sarah Ellis

Lionel Gelber Prize : Plutocrats: The Rise of the New Global Super-Rich and the Fall of Everyone Else by Chrystia Freeland

Nordic Council Literature Prize : Kim Leine for Profeterne i Evighedsfjorden

Literature Prize of the City of Vienna : Gustav Ernst

Man Booker Prize for Fiction : The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton

Man Booker International Prize : Lydia Davis

Matt Cohen Prize : Andrew Nikiforuk

Miles Franklin Award : Michelle de Kretser for Questions of Travel

Mishima Prize : Shiroiro no machi no, sono hone no taion no by Sayaka Murata

Murasaki Shikibu Literature Prize : Mari Akasaka for Tōykō Prison

Nadal Literature Prize : Sergio Vila-Sanjuán for Estaba en el aire

National Book Awards :

Prose: James McBride , The Good Lord Bird
Nonfiction: George Packer , The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America
Poetry: Mary Szybist , Incarnadine: Poems
Children's book: Cynthia Kadohata , The Thing About Luck
Literary life's work: EL Doctorow

Nelly Sachs Prize : Abbas Khider

Nike :

Main prize: Ciemno, prawie noc by Joanna Bator
Audience award: Morfina von Szczepan Twardoch

Nobel Prize in Literature : Alice Munro

Nordic Prize of the Swedish Academy : Sofi Oksanen

Orwell Prize (selection):

Category "Book": A Very British Killing: The Death of Baha Mousa by AT Williams
Special prize: Marie Colvin with On the Front Line. The Collected Journalism of Marie Colvin (posthumous)

Austrian Children's and Youth Book Prize :

Austrian State Prize for European Literature : John Banville

Park Kyung ni Literature Prize : Marilynne Robinson

PC Hooft Prize : AF Th. Van der Heijden

PEN / Faulkner Award : Benjamin Alire Sáenz for Everything Begins and Ends at the Kentucky Club

Per Olov Enquist Prize : Ingvild H. Rishøi

Norwegian Academy Award : Jan Kjærstad

Premio Alfaguara de Novela : José Ovejero for La invención del amor

Prémio Camões : Mia Couto

Premio Campiello : L'amore graffia il mondo by Ugo Riccarelli

Premio Gregor von Rezzori (Best Foreign Work): The Sound of Things When Falling by Juan Gabriel Vásquez

Premio Iberoamericano de Narrativa Manuel Rojas : Ricardo Piglia