Literature year 2013
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Overview of the literature years
Further events
Events
- 14.-17. March: Leipzig Book Fair
- International Children's Book Day April 2nd:
- April 23: World Book Day
- Josef Haslinger is elected as the new president of the writers' association PEN Center Germany . May 3: The Austrian author
- 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
- Bertelsmann and Pearson merge to form the world's largest book publisher Penguin Random House July 1:
- Frankfurt Book Fair ; Host country: Brazil 9-13 October:
- 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
- Paul Scheerbart (* 1863) January 8: 150th birthday of
- 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)
- Søren Kierkegaard († 1813) May 5: 200th anniversary of the death of
- 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)
- Denis Diderot (* 1713) October 5th: 300th birthday of
- October 17th: 200th birthday of Georg Büchner (* 1813)
- Albert Camus (* 1913) November 7: 100th birthday of
- 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
Fiction
- 43 reasons why it's OFF - Daniel Handler
- The American ride - Patrick Roth
- The illiterate woman who could count - Jonas Jonasson
- Back to Blood - Tom Wolfe
- Climbing the Rum Doodle - William Ernest Bowman
- The Pale King - David Foster Wallace
- Letter to the Aubergine Republic - Abbas Khider
- The casting - Ryū Murakami
- Le Comte de Chanteleine - Jules Verne
- A discrete hero - Mario Vargas Llosa
- Doctor Sleep - Stephen King
- Dark rascals - Terry Pratchett
- Sensitive Truth - John le Carré
- Memories of a Marriage - Louis Begley
- Expectation - Jussi Adler-Olsen
- F - Daniel Kehlmann
- The forger, the spy and the bomb maker - Alex Capus
- Frogs - Mo Yan
- Spring of the Barbarians - Jonas Lüscher
- The walk to the dogs - Erich Kästner (arr.)
- A full six months - Jojo Moyes
- Same and similar - Sami Michael
- Twilight of the Gods - Élémir Bourges
- Grundlsee - Gustav Ernst
- The head of the world - Rebecca Gablé
- Heroes of Olympus - The Son of Neptune - Rick Riordan
- Me and Earl and the girl - Jesse Andrews
- Inferno - Dan Brown
- The crazy hero tour of Billy Lynn - Ben Fountain
- Joyland - Stephen King
- Cold power - Jan Faber
- Knockemstiff - Donald Ray Pollock
- Coma - Jo Nesbø
- The plot - John Grisham
- Königsallee - Hans Pleschinski
- Long Earth - Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxter
- Legend - Smoldering Storm - Marie Lu
- The sufferings of the west - Peter Klein
- Dear life - Alice Munro
- Lockwood & Co. - The Sighing Spiral Staircase - Jonathan Stroud
- A lion hunter - Olivier Rolin
- Magical Mystery - Sven Regener
- The Man in the Gray Flannel - Sloan Wilson (new translation)
- My heart leaps and laughs - Rose Lagercrantz and Eva Eriksson
- Murder in the fall - Henning Mankell
- Night is day - Peter Stamm
- Noah - Sebastian Fitzek
- The People in the Trees - Hanya Yanagihara
- Pong redivivus - Sibylle Lewitscharoff (with Friedrich Meckseper )
- Pure Gold: A Stage Essay - Elfriede Jelinek
- The Rosie Project - Graeme Simsion
- The Call of the Cuckoo - Joanne K. Rowling under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith
- The scanner - Martin Schäuble under the pseudonym Robert M. Sonntag
- A butterfly in November - Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir
- Selection - Kiera Cass
- Skype Mama (anthology with 12 stories from Ukraine)
- The language of water - Sarah Crossan
- Stoner - John Williams
- The street - Andreas Maier
- Taboo - Ferdinand von Schirach
- The Day of the Locust - Nathanael West (new translation)
- Angel of Death - Andreas Eschbach
- The Death List - Frederick Forsyth
- Dream collector - Khaled Hosseini
- The Eerie Library - Haruki Murakami
- Among friends - Amos Oz
- Vogelweide - Uwe Timm
- The Truth About The Harry Quebert Case - Joël Dicker
- Brideshead Reunion - Evelyn Waugh (new translation)
- Zara - everything new - Ulrike Schrimpf
Non-fiction
- Anna, the school and the good Lord - Richard David Precht
- One way of life - Peter Bieri
- Biographical Lexicon for Pomerania (Vol. 1); Ed .: Dirk Alvermann and Nils Jörn
- Blackbox Deportation - Miltiades Oulios (media installation and book)
- Then close your blouse - Birgit Kelle
- The first life of Angela M. - Günther Lachmann and Ralf Georg Reuth
- The great war. The world 1914 to 1918 - Herfried Münkler
- Scarcity - Sendhil Mullainathan and Eldar Shafir
- The Art of Defeat: A Story of Surrender - Holger Afflerbach
- A Brief History of Humanity - Yuval Noah Harari
- The last days of Europe - Henryk M. Broder
- Paris apprenticeship - "Lexicon" on painting in Paris
- The Sleepwalkers - How Europe Moved into World War I - Christopher Clark
- The victory of capital - Ulrike Herrmann
- The super rich - Chrystia Freeland
- The measurement of the woman - Regula Stämpfli
- Why I'm not a Christian - Kurt Flasch
- Why Nations Fail - Daron Acemoğlu and James A. Robinson
- Far from the tribe: When children are very different from their parents - Andrew Solomon
Other works
- Work and structure (autobiography; weblog) - Wolfgang Herrndorf
- Christiane F. - My second life (autobiography) - Christiane Felscherinow
- The Flick (Drama) - Annie Baker
- Huck Finn (comic novel) - Olivia Vieweg
- The Importance of Being Earnest (opera, scenes. WP) - Gerald Barry (music and libretto; based on the comedy by Oscar Wilde)
- In silent nights (collection of poems) - Till Lindemann
- Jimmy Corrigan - The Smartest Boy in the World (comic book story) - Chris Ware
- The purchase (radio play) - Paul Plamper
- The war has no female face ("documentary novel"; expanded and updated new edition) - Swetlana Alexijewitsch
- My Short Story (Autobiography) - Stephen Hawking
- The Wards (essay / radio play / drama) - Elfriede Jelinek
- Second-hand time ("documentary novel") - Swetlana Alexijewitsch
- Totally happy (drama) - Silke Hassler
- Winter Journal (autobiography) - Paul Auster
Died
- Günter Löffler January 1st:
- Teresa Torańska January 2:
- Wolfgang Nehring January 3:
- Gwendoline Butler January 5th:
- Sol Yurick January 5th:
- 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
- Leda Milewa February 5th:
- Renato Olivieri February 8:
- 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
- Campbell Armstrong March 1:
- Adolf Himmel March 5th:
- Tsuji Ryōichi March 6:
- Jupp Weindich March 6th:
- 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
- Wera kitchen master April 6:
- José Luis Sampedro April 8:
- April 11th: Mbaye Gana Kébé
- April 26th: Carol Beach York
- April 30: Viviane Forrester
- April 30: Andrew J. Offutt
- April 30th: JM Ritchie
- Doreen Daume May 2nd:
- Jürg Amann May 5th:
- Lotfi Dziri May 5th:
- Sarah Kirsch May 5th:
- 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
- Katrine von Hutten June 1st:
- Hubert Wiedfeld June 2nd:
- Tom Sharpe June 6:
- John Boyd June 8:
- Yoram Kaniuk June 8:
- Iain M. Banks June 9:
- Walter Jens June 9:
- 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
- Brigitta Weiss July 2nd:
- Lisa Kahn July 3:
- Bernardine Bishop July 4th:
- Paul Raabe July 5th:
- Juan Introini July 6th:
- Milena Milani July 9:
- Barbara Robinson July 9:
- 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
- Sherko Bekas August 4th:
- Mari Vallisoo August 4th:
- Douglas R. Mason ( John Rankine ) August 8:
- Elizabeth Peters August 8:
- Urbano Tavares Rodrigues August 9:
- 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
- Frederik Pohl September 2:
- Manfred Kliem September 5:
- Klaus Rohleder September 5th:
- Ann C. Crispin September 6:
- Alberto Bevilacqua September 9:
- 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
- Tom Clancy October 1:
- Shun Akiyama October 2nd:
- Kurt Steinkrauss October 3:
- Joanna Chmielewska October 7th:
- Khady Sylla October 8:
- Mark Brandon Read October 9:
- 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
- Lena Karpunina November 4th:
- Walter Fröhlich November 7th:
- Jürgen Leinemann November 9th:
- Werner Marti November 9:
- Georg P. Salzmann November 9th:
- 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
- André Schiffrin December 1st:
- Iván Bächer December 2nd:
- Hilbert Schenck December 2:
- Jean-Luc Benoziglio December 5th:
- Colin Wilson December 5th:
- Jean-Pierre Desthuilliers December 6th:
- Henri Maldiney December 6th:
- Peter Urban December 9:
- 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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
- Prémio José Saramago : Ondjaki for Os Transparentes
- Prêmio Juca Pato : Audálio Dantas for As duas guerras de Vlado Herzog
- Prémio LeYa : Gabriela Ruivo Trindade for Uma Outra Voz
- Prêmio Machado de Assis : Silviano Santiago
- Premio Planeta : Clara Sánchez for El cielo ha vuelto
- Premio Strega : Walter Siti for Resistere non serve a niente
- Prince of Asturias Prize for Literature : Antonio Muñoz Molina
- Prix Claude-Farrère : Philippe de Villiers
- Prix du polar européen : Petros Markaris for bad loans
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Prix européen Utopiales des pays de la Loire : Exodes by Jean-Marc Ligny
- Prix Utopiales européen jeunesse: Ici-bas by Yves Grevet
- Prix Femina : Léonora Miano for La Saison de l'ombre
- Prix Femina Essai : Jean-Paul Enthoven and Raphaël Enthoven for Dictionnaire amoureux de Marcel Proust
- Prix Femina Étranger : Richard Ford for Canada
- Prix Goncourt (novel) : Au revoir là-haut by Pierre Lemaitre
- Prix Goncourt de la nouvelle : L'Étrange Affaire du pantalon de Dassoukine by Fouad Laroui
- Prix Goncourt des lycéens : Le Quatrième Mur by Sorj Chalandon
- Prix Interallié : Moment d'un couple by Nelly Alard
- Prix Mallarmé : Alain Duault , Les sept prénoms du vent
- Prix Max Cukierman : Robert Bober
- Prix Médicis : Marie Darrieussecq for Il faut beaucoup aimer les hommes
- Prix Médicis étranger : Toine Heijmans for En mer (German: random walk )
- Prix Médicis essai : Swetlana Alexijewitsch for La fin de l'homme rouge
- Prix mondial Cino Del Duca : Robert Darnton
- Prix Renaudot : Naissance by Yann Moix
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Pulitzer Prizes (selection):
- Fiction : Adam Johnson for The Orphan Master's Son (Eng: The Robbed Life of the Orphan Jun Do )
- Drama : Ayad Akhtar for Disgraced
- Nonfiction : Gilbert King for Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America
- Retzhofer Dramapreis : Ferdinand Schmalz for using the example of butter
- Riverton Prize : The siste pilegrimen of Gard Sveen
- Samuel Johnson Prize : Lucy Hughes-Hallett for The Pike
- Swiss Book Prize : Jens Steiner for Carambole
- Sedat Simavi Prize (“Literature” category): Hasan Ali Toptaş
- Solothurn Literature Prize : Franz Hohler
- Somerset Maugham Award (selection): Ned Beauman for The Teleportation Accident
- Søren Gyldendal Prize : Jens Smærup Sørensen
- Theodor Kramer Prize : Margit Bartfeld-Feller and Manfred Wieninger
- TS Eliot Prize of the Poetry Book Society : Sinéad Morrissey for Parallax
- Tucholsky Prize (Sweden) : Masha Gessen
- Walter Scott Prize : The Garden of Evening Mists by Tan Twan Eng
- Weekendavisens litteraturpris : Digte by Yahya Hassan
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Windham – Campbell Literature Prize (selection):
- Fiction: Tom McCarthy ; James Salter ; Zoë Wicomb
- Non-Fiction: Jeremy Scahill
- Drama: Tarell Alvin McCraney
- Women's Prize for Fiction : AM Homes for May We Be Forgiven
Related awards and honors
- Library of the year : Stuttgart City Library
- Brothers Grimm Poetics Professorship : Sibylle Lewitscharoff
- Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Play: Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike by Christopher Durang
- Erasmus Prize : Jürgen Habermas
- Peace Prize of the German Book Trade : Swetlana Alexijewitsch
- Goethe Medal : S. Mahmoud Hosseini Zad , Iranian writer and translator; Naveen Kishore , Indian publisher and artist; Petros Markaris , Greek author and President of the National Book Center of Greece
- Golden Goethe Medal of the Goethe Society Weimar: Yang Wuneng , Chinese Germanist, Goethe researcher and translator; Jochen Schmidt , Germanist
- Hans Kilian Prize : Hans Joas
- Culture Prize of the City of Basel : Alain Claude Sulzer
- Kurt Wolff Prize : Wallstein Verlag ; Sponsorship award: binooki Verlag
- Leibniz Prize (selection): Thomas Bauer ; Lutz Raphael
- Leipzig Book Prize for European Understanding : Klaus-Michael Bogdal for Europe invents the Gypsies
- Leopold Lucas Prize : Giorgio Agamben
- Ludwig Mülheims Theater Prize : Dea Loher
- MacArthur Fellowship (selection): Donald Antrim ; Karen Russell
- Michael Althen Prize for criticism : Willi Winkler
- Obie Award , “Playwriting” section: Ayad Akhtar for Disgraced and Annie Baker for The Flick
- Paszport Polityki for literature: Ziemowit Szczerek
- Prix de l'Académie de Berlin : Georges-Arthur Goldschmidt
- Sigmund Freud Culture Prize : Christina von Braun
- Sigmund Freud Prize for Scientific Prose : Angelika Neuwirth
- Tony Award (Best Play) : Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike by Christopher Durang