Literature year 2014

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Overview of the literature years
Further events

Events

0March 2nd: Sibylle Lewitscharoff gives a lecture as part of the “Dresdner Reden” series of events that provokes violent protests.
13-16 March: Leipzig Book Fair with "Performance Switzerland"
0April 2nd: International Children's Book Day
April 23: World Book Day
May 12: The Weltbild publishing group , which has been in insolvency since January 2014 , is majority sold to Munich-based financial investor Paragon Partners.
May (?): 50th anniversary of the founding of the Wagenbach publishing house in Berlin

June 16: Bloomsday

June 17: Bertelsmann announces that the German-language book club business will be discontinued. The last 52 branches are to be closed by March 2015.

June 24th: The Börsenverein des Deutschen Buchhandels has filed a complaint against the online mail order company Amazon.com with the Federal Cartel Office on the charge of “extortionate actions against publishers” and “abuse of its market market” .

August: 909 authors in the USA protest in an open letter against the marketing strategies of the online mail order company amazon ; In Germany, a few days later, an open letter from more than 1000 German-speaking authors on the same topic follows.

August 17th: As announced a year ago, the book trade and direct sales business with the Brockhaus Encyclopedia was ended with immediate effect.

08-12 October: Frankfurt Book Fair ; Host country: Finland

December 19: Following a decision by the Federal Constitutional Court , Suhrkamp Verlag may be converted into a stock corporation.

December 30th: 100th anniversary of the opening of the Volksbühne Berlin

2014: Heidelberg becomes UNESCO City of Literature .

2014: Guggolz Verlag is founded in Berlin .

2014: In Wiesbaden, six publishers are brought together in the Römerweg publishing house .

2014: Schultz & Schirm Bühnenverlag is founded in Vienna .

2014: A total of 87,134 books are published in Germany; thereof 73,863 book titles in the first edition, another 13,271 in new editions.

Anniversaries (selection)

Birthdays

0January 1st: 300th birthday of Kristijonas Donelaitis

January 17th: Raoul Schrott's 50th birthday

January 18: Arno Schmidt's 100th birthday

0February 4th: 100th birthday of Alfred Andersch

0February 5: 100th birthday of William S. Burroughs

0February 6: 150th birthday of John Henry Mackay

February 12: Sebastian Sailer's 300th birthday

February 15th: 250th birthday of Jens Immanuel Baggesen

February 19: Jonathan Lethem's 50th birthday

February 22: Jules Renard's 150th birthday

February 25: Karl Gustav Brinckmann's 250th birthday

February 26 (baptized): Christopher Marlowe's 450th birthday

0March 1: 100th birthday of Ralph Ellison

0March 7th: Bret Easton Ellis' 50th birthday

0March 8: Ede Szigligeti's 200th birthday

0March 9: Taras Shevchenko's 200th birthday

March 11: Leena Lehtolainen's 50th birthday

March 17th: 100th birthday of Günter Hofé

March 18: Squidward Troll's 100th birthday

March 27th: 100th birthday of Budd Schulberg

March 28: 100th birthday of Bohumil Hrabal

March 31: 100th birthday of Octavio Paz

0April 4th: 100th birthday of Marguerite Duras

0April 4th: 150th birthday of Futabatei Shimei

April 13: Orhan Veli Kanık's 100th birthday

April 20th: 250th birthday of Rudolph Ackermann

April 20: Dea Loher's 50th birthday

April 26: 100th birthday of Bernard Malamud

April 26 (baptized): William Shakespeare's 450th birthday

April 27: 250th birthday of Johann Friedrich Cotta

0May 7th: Therese Huber's 250th birthday

0May 8: 100th birthday of Romain Gary

May 11: 250th birthday of Konrad Engelbert Oelsner

May 11: Ethel Lilian Voynich's 150th birthday

May 12th: 100th birthday of Bertus Aafjes

May 12: 150th birthday of Caesar Flaischlen

May 13: Gregor von Rezzori's 100th birthday

May 24: 100th birthday of George Tabori

May 30th: 100th birthday of Jiří Marek

0June 3: 150th birthday of Otto Erich Hartleben

0June 5: George D. Painter's 100th birthday

0June 8: Kurt Barthel's 100th birthday

June 10: 100th birthday of Oktay Rifat

June 15: Jean Meslier's 350th birthday

June 17: 100th birthday of John Hersey

June 22nd: Dan Brown's 50th birthday

0July 9: Ann Radcliffe's 250th birthday

July 11th: Helmut Krausser's 50th birthday

July 15: Edward Caswall's 200th birthday

July 17th: 300th birthday of Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten

July 17th: 100th birthday of James Purdy

July 18: Ricarda Huch's 150th birthday

July 20: 150th birthday of Erik Axel Karlfeldt

July 20: 150th birthday of Balser Puorger

July 21: 100th birthday of Philippe Ariès

July 24: 150th birthday of Frank Wedekind

July 26: Anne Provoost's 50th birthday

July 30th: 100th birthday of Béatrix Beck

0August 3: Radek Knapp's 50th birthday

0August 9: Caroline Auguste Fischer's 250th birthday

0August 9: Tove Jansson's 100th birthday

August 26: 100th birthday of Julio Cortázar

August 28: 200th birthday of Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

0September 1st: 100th birthday of Krystyna Żywulska

0September 5th: Henriette Herz's 250th birthday

September 14: 250th birthday of Ludwig Ferdinand Huber

September 15th: 100th birthday of Adolfo Bioy Casares

September 15: Orhan Kemal's 100th birthday

September 17th: 300th birthday of Gottlieb Wilhelm Rabener

September 25: Carlos Ruiz Zafón's 50th birthday

September 29: Miguel de Unamuno's 150th birthday

0October 1: Sallust's 2100th birthday

0October 8: Jakob Arjouni's 50th birthday

October 14: 150th birthday of Stefan Żeromski

October 15: Mikhail Lermontov's 200th birthday

October 18: Charles Stross' 50th birthday

October 20th: 100th birthday of Mario Luzi

October 24th: Dorothea Schlegel's 250th birthday

October 25: 100th birthday of John Berryman

October 25: James Burnett's 300th birthday

October 27: Jan Kott's 100th birthday

October 27: Dylan Thomas 100th birthday

October 29: Yakiv Holovatskyi's 200th birthday

0November 7: 100th birthday of Raphael Aloysius Lafferty

0November 8: Simon Borowiak's 50th birthday

November 11: Howard Fast's 100th birthday

November 11: 150th birthday of Maurice Leblanc

November 13: 100th birthday of William Gibson

November 22: Henning Ahrens' 50th birthday

November 26: Louise Aston's 200th birthday

November 28: Sherko Fatah's 50th birthday

November 30th: 50th birthday of Thomas Hettche

0December 4th: Feridun Zaimoglu's 50th birthday

0December 5th: 100th birthday of Hans Hellmut Kirst

0December 8: Richard David Precht's 50th birthday

0December 9th: Hape Kerkeling's 50th birthday

December 12: Patrick O'Brian's 100th birthday

December 15th: Denis Scheck's 50th birthday

December 19: Thomas Brussig's 50th birthday

December 23rd: 300th birthday of Ranieri de 'Calzabigi

December 24th: 100th birthday of Herbert Reinecker

December 27: 100th birthday of Giuseppe Berto

unknown: 200th birthday of Qurrat al-ʿAyn

unknown: Michal Zamir's 50th birthday

Days of death

0In January: 100th anniversary of Ambrose Bierce's death

0January 9th: 50th anniversary of Halide Edib Adıvar's death

January 17: 50th anniversary of TH White's death

January 21: 200th anniversary of the death of Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre

March 20: 50th anniversary of the death of Brendan Behan

March 25: 100th anniversary of the death of Frédéric Mistral

March 27: 300th anniversary of Anton Ulrich's death (Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel)

March 31: 100th anniversary of Christian Morgenstern's death

0April 2: 100th anniversary of Paul Heyse's death

May 19: 150th anniversary of John Clare's death

May 19: 150th anniversary of Nathaniel Hawthorne's death

May 26: 150th anniversary of Charles Sealsfield's death

0June 3rd: 50th anniversary of the death of Frans Eemil Sillanpää

0July 6: 100th anniversary of Delmira Agustini's death

July 16: 350th anniversary of the death of Andreas Gryphius

July 19: 50th anniversary of Friedrich Sieburg's death

July 22nd: 50th anniversary of Heinz Herald's death

August 12: 50th anniversary of the death of Ian Fleming

August 14: 550th anniversary of Enea Silvio Piccolomini's death

0September 4th: 50th anniversary of Werner Bergengruen's death

0September 5: 100th anniversary of Charles Péguy's death

September 16: 50th anniversary of Leo Weismantel's death

September 18: 50th anniversary of Seán O'Casey's death

September 22: 100th anniversary of the death of Alain-Fournier

September 22: 200th anniversary of August Wilhelm Iffland's death

September 25: 100th anniversary of Alfred Lichtenstein's death

September 26: 100th anniversary of Hermann Löns' death

September 26: 100th anniversary of Ernst Wilhelm Lotz's death

October 26th: 50th anniversary of Agnes Miegel's death

October 27th: 50th anniversary of the death of Willi Bredel

October 29: 100th anniversary of Pejo Jaworow's death

0November 3rd: 100th anniversary of Georg Trakl's death

November 28: 500th anniversary of Hartmann Schedel's death

0December 2nd: 200th anniversary of the death of the Marquis de Sade

December 29: 50th anniversary of the death of Bernard von Brentano

Appeared ... years ago

1714: The Rape of the Lock by Alexander Pope

1764: The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole

1814: The Dog of Aubry (melodrama) by René Charles Guilbert de Pixérécourt

1814: Mansfield Park by Jane Austen

1814: Waverley by Walter Scott

1864: Picture antics and Eginhard and Emma by Wilhelm Busch

1864: Notes from Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky

1864: The Journey to the Center of the Earth by Jules Verne

1914: Dubliners by James Joyce

1914: The Emperor of Portugal by Selma Lagerlöf

1914: Locus Solus by Raymond Roussel

1914: The Ochsenkrieg of Ludwig Ganghofer

1914: Roßhalde by Hermann Hesse

1914: Tarzan by Edgar Rice Burroughs (first book edition)

1914: The dungeons of the Vatican by André Gide

1964: Amras by Thomas Bernhard

1964: Bartl's adventures by Marlen Haushofer

1964: Removal from Heinrich Böll's troops
1964: The great protocol against Zwetschkenbaum by Albert Drach (created in 1939)
1964: Duke of Saul Bellow
1964: Maigret se défend by Georges Simenon
1964: Marat / Sade by Peter Weiss
1964: My name is Gantenbein from Max Frisch
1964: Les mots by Jean-Paul Sartre
1964: The Spy Who Came in from the Cold by John le Carré
1964: The Invincible by Stanisław Lem

New releases

Novels, short stories

For 28 days - David Safier
The eighth life (For Brilka) - Nino Harativili
Agnese goes to death (NA) - Renata Viganò
All the light we don't see - Anthony Doerr
Always Coca-Cola - Alexandra Chreiteh
Americanah - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Doctor novel - Kristof Magnusson
The Destiny - Final Decision - Veronica Roth
Pictures of your great love - Wolfgang Herrndorf
Black Box - Michael Connelly
The bubbling of happiness - Barry Jonsberg
Breaking News - Frank Schätzing
Brown Girl Dreaming - Jacqueline Woodson
A bull on the train - Franz Dobler
Bunker Diary - Kevin Brooks
A Chave de Salomão - José Rodrigues dos Santos
The Circle - Dave Eggers
The Clan of Wolves (novel cycle) - Kathryn Lasky
So that you don't get lost in the neighborhood - Patrick Modiano
The Goldfinch - Donna Tartt
The heiress - John Grisham
Faceless: Death has no face - Terry Hayes
The woman on the stairs - Bernhard Schlink
Pious misery (NÜ) - Frans Eemil Sillanpää
Story for a moment - Ruth Ozeki
Happy death - Volker H. Altwasser
The golden egg - Donna Leon
Grasses of the Night - Patrick Modiano
Heroes of Olympus - The House of Hades - Rick Riordan
The Heroes of Olympus: The Blood of Olympus - Rick Riordan
The interesting ones - Meg Wolitzer

The Jesus Deal - Andreas Eschbach

The boy who swam with the piranhas - David Almond

Children of Freedom - Ken Follett

Koala - Lukas Bärfuss

War novel (uncensored version) - Väinö Linna

Kruso - Lutz Seiler

Lena and the secret of the blue deer (children's book) - Edward van de Vendel

Ultimately, the universe doesn't care about us - David Levithan

Liquidation (uncensored for the first time) - Wassil Bykau

London NW - Zadie Smith

Machandel - Regina Scheer

The girl with the blue eyes - Michel Bussi

A man named Ove - Fredrik Backman

The Martian - Andy Weir

March fallen. Gereon Rath's fifth case - Volker Kutscher

Mr. Mercedes - Stephen King

Open Straight - Bill Konigsberg

Perdido Street Station - China Miéville

Petronella apple sauce - bewitched and stuck (vol. 1 of a children's book series) - Sabine Städing (text) and Sabine Büchner (illustration)

The pilgrimage of the colorless Mr. Tazaki - Haruki Murakami

Redeployment - Phil Klay

The pain, the future, my mistakes and I - Jenny Jägerfeld

Swimming with elephants - Yōko Ogawa

The strange ones - Stefan Bachmann

Mr. Penumbra's strange bookstore - Robin Sloan

A Song for Ella Gray - David Almond

Later fame - Arthur Schnitzler

Days of the last snow - Jan Costin Wagner

The daughter of the last king - Sabrina Qunaj

Deadly Frost - Asbjørn Jaklin

Decay and Fall (NÜ) - Evelyn Waugh

Maybe Esther - Katya Petrovskaya

From men who have no wives - Haruki Murakami

The Hydrogen Sonata - Iain M. Banks

The adversary - Michael Connelly

Zero - you know what you're doing - Marc Elsberg

trilogy

Crow girl + scar child + shadow scream - Erik Axl Sund

Non-fiction

Out of concern for Europe - Helmut Kohl

Germany out of her senses - Akif Pirinçci

Modes of Existence - Bruno Latour

The Secret of Human Thought - Raymond Kurzweil

Hope human - Michael Schmidt-Salomon

Islamic Fascism - Hamed Abdel-Samad

Jews in Bamberg 1633–1802/03 - Michaela Schmölz-Häberlein

Capital in the 21st Century - Thomas Piketty

Bullying in the home - Markus Dietl

The new virtue terror - Thilo Sarrazin

Taksim is everywhere - Deniz Yücel

Legacy. The Kohl Protocols - Tilman Jens and Heribert Schwan

Zinkjungen ( adult and current NA) - Swetlana Alexijewitsch

Other works

From the Berliner Journal (diary) - Max Frisch
Report from within (autobiography) - Paul Auster
Brokeback Mountain (Opera) - Annie Proulx (Libretto)
Casa Valentina (Drama) - Harvey Fierstein
Thieves in Olympus (musical) - based on the novel by Rick Riordan
Introduction to the liturgical year - Prosper-Louis-Pascal Guéranger
Origin (autobiographical text) - Botho Strauss
In the deep valley of the death claw (drama) - Boris von Brauchitsch
Jedermann (rock opera) - Peter Lund (libretto)
The boy needs some fresh air - My childhood and I (autobiography) - Hape Kerkeling
Karamazov (drama) - Thorsten Lensing
Klaus in the closet or the wrong Christmas party (comedy; 1927) - Erich Kästner
King Leopold's self-talk (and other pamphlets; 1st "all-German" edition) - Mark Twain
The ridiculous darkness (radio play / drama) - Wolfram Lotz
Marjorie Prime (drama) - Jordan Harrison
The megara of the sea (long poem; French EA: 1965) - Louis-René des Forêts
Mozart in Moscow (opera) - Ad de Bont (libretto)
Rain barrel variations (poetry) - Jan Wagner
Black notebooks (“Thinking Diaries”) - Martin Heidegger
Submerged. A young woman survived in Berlin 1940–1945 (autobiography) - Marie Simon

Died

0January 2: Elizabeth Jane Howard
0January 4th: Jean Métellus
0January 9th: Amiri Baraka
0January 9: Iris Wagner
January 11: Michael Jacobs
January 11th: Fritz Molden
January 12: Neal Barrett Jr.
January 12: Dominik Steiger
January 13: Joachim Nowotny
January 14th: Jon Bing
January 14th: Juan Gelman
January 15: Reinhard Palm
January 15: Yoshino Hiroshi
January 18: Eugenio Cruz Vargas
January 19: Christoph Mangold
January 20: Alexander Malec
January 26: José Emilio Pacheco
January 27: Helga Pankratz
January 28th: Frédéric Bruly Bouabré
January 28th: Hans F. Nöhbauer
January 29th: François Cavanna
January 29th: Hashem Shaabani
January 30: Igor Bondarenko
January 31: Jiří Fiedler
January 31: Horst Mönnich
0February 2: Enzo Muzii
0February 5th: Martin Wallimann
0February 6: Lester Goran
0February 6: Maxine Kumin
0February 6: Michael Müller
0February 6: Peter Philipp
0February 8: Peter Gente
0February 8: Karl Heinz Henssel
0February 8: Marcel Turcu
February 10: Stuart Hall
February 14th: Werner Mittenzwei
February 16: Uwe Berger
February 16: Benno Meyer-Wehlack
February 16: Michael Shea
February 18: Karl Eibl
February 18: Mavis Gallant
February 18: Margarita Stāraste
February 19: Szilárd Borbély
February 21: Cornelius Schnauber
February 22: William J. Chambliss
February 22nd: Leo Vroman
February 27: Aaron Allston
February 28th: Mado Michio
0March 2nd: Peter Bares
0March 6th: Manlio Sgalambro
0March 7th: Uwe Timm
0March 8th: Justus Pfaue
0March 9: Gerhard Herm
March 10: Joe McGinniss
March 11th: Marilyn Butler
March 13th: Hilda Kühl
March 13: Icchokas Meras
March 18: Catherine Acholonu
March 18: Lucius Shepard
March 20: Karin Kramer
March 20: Khushwant Singh
March 21: Alain Franck
March 22nd: Kurt Rudolf Fischer
March 22nd: Friedl Hofbauer
March 23: Rafael Alfaro
March 23: Peter Faecke
March 23: Barbara Goldstein
March 24th: Jean-François Mattéi
March 25th: Eugen Biser
March 25th: Jonathan Schell
March 30th: Kate O'Mara
0April 1: Miriam Frances
0April 1: Jacques Le Goff
0April 2: Roni Givati
0April 2nd: Renate Heuer
0April 2: Glyn Jones
0April 2: Unnikrishnan Puthoor
0April 2: Urs Widmer
0April 3: Régine Deforges
0April 3: Silvi Väljal
0April 4: Curtis Bill Pepper
0April 4: Mohammed Qutb
0April 5: Gynther Hansen
0April 5th: Peter Matthiessen
0April 8: Karlheinz Deschner
0April 9: Svetlana Velmar-Janković
April 10: Richard Hoggart
April 10: Doris Pilkington
April 10: Sue Townsend
April 13th: Kshetra Pratap Adhikari
April 13: Ernesto Laclau
April 14th: Nina Cassian
April 14: Alexander U. Martens
April 15: Ilse Bintig
April 17th: Gabriel García Márquez
April 18: Habib Boularès
April 18: Gisbert Ter-Nedden
April 20: Ilse von Bredow
April 20: Alistair MacLeod
April 22nd: Wieland Schmied
April 24th: Johannes KG Niedlich
April 24th: Tadeusz Różewicz
April 25: Stefanie Zweig
April 26th: Inìsero Cremaschi
April 26th: Philip Sugden
April 27: Vasco Graça Moura
April 30th: Wolfgang Fietkau
April 30th: Jun'ichi Watanabe
0May 1st: Josef Adamiak
0May 1: Chou Meng-tieh
0May 2nd: Žarko Petan
0May 4th: Helga Königsdorf
0May 4th: Hermann Schreiber
0May 5th: Hans-Martin Lohmann
0May 6th: Gianni Da Campo
0May 6th: Timuçin Davras
0May 6: Antony Hopkins
0May 6: Farley Mowat
0May 8: Virgilio Masciadri
0May 9: Hugo Ernst buyer
0May 9: Mary Stewart
May 10: Elisabeth Frenzel
May 11: Dietrich Lückoff
May 15: Jean Oury
May 16: Chen Guokai
May 18: Dobrica Ćosić
May 18: Hans-Peter Dürr
May 21: Digne Meller Marcovicz
May 23: Louis Jent
May 25: Marie-Louise Roth
May 25th: Arno Spitz
May 26th: Karl-Heinz Schreiber
May 28: Maya Angelou
May 30th: Hans-Jörg Hennecke
May 30th: Michael Szameit
0June 2: Johnny B. Isotamm
0June 3: Fritz Schwegler
0June 4th: Ulf Diederichs
0June 5th: Mix white
0June 6: Armin Zeißler
0June 7th: Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka
June 10: Roger Lille
June 11: Kunie Iwahashi
June 12: Gunnel Linde
June 12: Frank Schirrmacher
June 13: Jean Firges
June 14: Ultra Violet
June 15: Daniel Keyes
June 17th: Josef Guter
June 18: Egon Gramer
June 21: Herbert Bräuning
June 25: Nigel Calder
June 25th: Ana María Matute
June 26th: Mary Rodgers
June 29th: Anatoly Dimarov
June 29: Dermot Healy
June 29th: Peter Hetzel
June 30th: Pierre Bec
June 30: Frank M. Robinson
June 30th: Maria Luisa Spaziani
0July 3: Jüri Tuulik
0July 4th: Giorgio Faletti
0July 4th: Torill Thorstad Hauger
0July 5th: Hans-Ulrich Wehler
0July 6th: Tô Hoài
0July 8: Vanna Bonta
July 11th: John Seigenthaler senior
July 12: Manfred Winkler
July 13: Thomas Berger
July 13: Nadine Gordimer
July 17: Liam Davison
July 18: João Ubaldo Ribeiro
July 18: Dietmar Schönherr
July 19: Iring Fetscher
July 21: Hans-Georg Lenzen
July 21: Marlene Reidel
July 23: Peter Schoenen
July 23: Ariano Suassuna
July 23: Ursula Wölfel
July 24th: Hans-Hermann Sprado
July 25th: Bel Kaufman
July 29th: María Antonia Iglesias
July 29: Jürgen Wiersch
0August 1st: Jürgen Degenhardt
0August 1st: Gert von Paczensky
0August 3: Dorothy Salisbury Davis
0August 5th: Elfriede Brüning
0August 7th: Gertrud Zasche
0August 8: Raymond Matzen
August 11th: Simon Leys
August 12: Jean Favier
August 15: Theodor Dombrowski
August 15: Hannes Hüttner
August 16: Besim Bokshi
August 16: Peter Scholl-Latour
August 17th: Wolfgang Leonhard
August 17th: Miodrag Pavlović
August 18: Hubert Konrad Frank
August 18: Fanny Morweiser
August 19: Simin Behbahani
August 21: Anh Đức
August 22nd: UR Ananthamurthy
August 22nd: Peter Hopkirk
August 23: Uwe Bolius
August 23: Werner Liersch
August 23: Jaume Vallcorba Plana
August 24: Eduardo White
August 26th: Reimar Lenz
August 27: Valery Petrov
August 27: Benno Pludra
0September 1: Walter Keller
0September 1: AJ Langguth
0September 5: Bernd Kramer
0September 7th: Yves Moraud
0September 9: Graham Joyce
September 10: Günter Lüling
September 13th: Friedhilde Krause
September 15: Giuliana Berlinguer
September 15: Jürg Schubiger
September 17th: Wolfgang Held
September 18: Harri Jõgisalu
September 18: Agneša Kalinová
September 22nd: Adelaida García Morales
September 23: Gilles Latulippe
September 24th: Fred Branfman
September 24th: Madis Kõiv
September 24th: Karl Miller
September 27: Werner HA Debler
September 27: Eugie Foster
September 27th: Jean-Jacques Pauvert
September 27th: Vittorio Dan Segre
September 27th: Ingrid Strohschneider-Kohrs
September 28th: Dannie Abse
September 28th: Waltraut Skoddow
0October 1st: Otto Then
0October 1st: Klaus von Welser
0October 3: Sigrid Heuck
0October 3: Christopher van Wyk
0October 4th: Werner Bader
0October 4th: Hans Heinrich Schmid
0October 5th: Geoffrey Holder
0October 7: Walter Bockmayer
0October 7th: Peter Keller
0October 7th: Siegfried Lenz
0October 8: Sandra Antonova
0October 9: Carolyn Kizer
0October 9: Udo Reiter
October 13: Stefan Lübbe
October 14: Marcello Argilli
October 15: Rainer Witt
October 16: Ertuğrul Oğuz Fırat
October 17th: Hajo F. Breuer
October 17: Lawrence J. Quirk
October 18: Mariano Lebrón Saviñón
October 18: Sidney Shapiro
October 20: Rajam Krishnan
October 22: Martin Chalmers
October 23: Hayden Howard
October 23: Ramiro Pinilla
October 24th: Michael Rieth
October 26th: Genpei Akasegawa
October 27: Daniel Boulanger
October 28th: Romualdas Granauskas
October 28th: Galway Kinnell
October 28: Erika Weinzierl
October 30: Jan Andrew Nilsen
October 31: Käbi Laretei
0November 1st: Klaus Bölling
0November 2nd: Pierre Daix
0November 3rd: Rolf Becker
0November 5th: Hugo Schanovsky
0November 6th: Abdelwahab Meddeb
0November 6: John Morrow
0November 7th: Kajetan Kovič
November 10: Gottfried Eisermann
November 13th: Manoel de Barros
November 14: Ursula Haucke
November 15: Leslie Feinberg
November 16: Serge Moscovici
November 17th: Heiner Rank
November 18: Elli Michler
November 18: Rolf Thissen
November 21: Richard Eder
November 22: Wilfried Barner
November 23: Franz Georg Maier
November 27: PD James
November 28th: Said Akl
November 28th: Roberto Gómez Bolaños
November 29: Günter Bommert
November 30th: Radua Ashur
November 30th: Kent Haruf
0December 1st: Raúl Barbero
0December 1: Jürgen Hein
0December 1st: Yevhen Swerstyuk
0December 1st: Wolfgang Thadewald
0December 2nd: Dominique Aubier
0December 2nd: János Szirmai
0December 3: Vicente Leñero Otero
0December 5th: Talât Sait Halman
0December 5th: Menis Koumandareas
0December 6: Ursula Voss
0December 7th: Marie Marcks
0December 8th: Christa Dericum
December 10: Ralph Giordano
December 10th: Otto Pöggeler
December 11th: Herbert Jäger
December 13th: Claus Küchenmeister
December 17th: Fritz Rudolf Fries
December 19: Scott Austin
December 21: Horacio Ferrer
December 21: Udo Jürgens
December 21: Sitor Situmorang
December 24th: Jacques Garelli
December 26: Stanisław Barańczak
December 27th: Wolfgang Luppe
December 27th: Tomaž Šalamun
December 30th: Wolfgang Kellner
December 30th: Miyao Tomiko
December 30th: Matti Moosa
December 31: Norbert readers
anonymous: Atanas Nakowski
anonymous: Evelyn Peters

Literature Awards 2014

German literary prizes

Adelbert von Chamisso Prize : Ann Cotten ; Dana Ranga and Nellja Veremej (sponsorship awards)

Alfred Kerr Prize for literary criticism : Insa Wilke

Annalize Wagner Prize : What would have been from Gregor Sander

aspects literary prize : Perhaps Esther von Katja Petrowskaja

Author's Prize of the Heidelberger Stückemarkt : Ulf Schmidt for Der Marienthaler Dachs

Bavarian Book Prize :

Fiction: Pfaueninsel by Thomas Hettche
Non-fiction book: History of Germany in the 20th century by Ulrich Herbert
Honorary award from the Bavarian Prime Minister: Silvia Bovenschen

Ben Witter Prize : Helmut Höge

Berlin Literature Prize : Hans Joachim Schädlich

Lake Constance Literature Prize : Arnold Stadler

Buxtehude bull : by David Safier for 28 days
Carl Zuckmayer Medal : Dieter Kühn
Caroline Schlegel Prize : Andreas Dorschel for the essay A Corinthians' letter to Paul that was believed lost ; Sponsorship award: Nancy Hünger
Christian Wagner Prize for Poetry: Nico Bleutge
Clemens Brentano Prize : Maximilian Probst for Der Fahrradesel. The last human technology
Cotta Prize : Ulrike Edschmid (writer) and Joachim Kalka (translator)
DeLiA Literature Prize : The Taste of Summer Rain by Julie Leuze
German Book Prize : Kruso by Lutz Seiler
German Youth Theater Award : Monster (The Monster in the Hall) by David Greig (author) and Barbara Christ (translator)
German Science Fiction Prize :
- Best novel: Dschiheads by Wolfgang Jeschke
- Best story: Sideways into the time of Axel Kruse
Dresden Poetry Prize : Lea Schneider ; Audience award: Thilo Krause
Düsseldorf Literature Prize : Ralph Dutli for the complete works
Eichendorff Literature Prize : Adam Zagajewski
Eugen Helmlé translator award : Cécile Wajsbrot

Fontane Literature Prize : Christoph Ransmayr for atlas of an anxious man

Friedrich Gerstäcker Prize : Kinshasa Dreams by Anna Kuschnarowa

Friedrich Hölderlin Prize of the City of Bad Homburg : Peter Stamm ; Sponsorship award: Nellja Veremej

Friedrich Schiedel Prize for Literature : Philipp Blom for The Staggering Continent. Europe 1900–1914

Fritz Reuter Prize : Hartmut Cyriacks and Peter Nissen

Georg Büchner Prize : Jürgen Becker

Georg K. Glaser Prize : Ror Wolf

George Konell Prize : Stephan Thome

Gerty Spies Literature Prize : Navid Kermani

Goethe Prize of the City of Frankfurt am Main : Peter von Matt

Hannelore Greve Literature Prize : Herta Müller

Hans Fallada Prize : Jenny Erpenbeck

Heinrich Mann Prize : Robert Schindel

Heinrich Maria Ledig-Rowohlt Prize : Bettina Abarbanell

Helmut M. Braem Translator Award : Hans-Christian Oeser

Hermann Kesten Prize : Wolfgang Kaleck

Hölty Prize for Poetry: Silke Scheuermann for the complete lyric works

Horst Bingel Prize for Literature : Nadja Küchenmeister

Hotlist : Lars Müller Publishers for people at CERN

Hugo Ball Prize : Thomas Hürlimann ; Sponsorship award: Marc Degens

Jakob Wassermann Literature Prize : Urs Widmer

Joachim Ringelnatz Prize for Poetry: Ulrike Draesner (main prize); Carl-Christian Elze (Young Talent Award)

Johann Heinrich Merck Prize for literary criticism and essay : Carolin Emcke

Johann Heinrich Voß Prize for Translation : Sabine Stöhr

Johann-Peter-Hebel-Prize : Franz Hohler

Joseph Breitbach Prize : Navid Kermani

Kassel Literature Prize : Dieter Hildebrandt (posthumous)

Children's Book Prize of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia : My Heart Leaps and Laughs by Rose Lagercrantz and Eva Eriksson (Ill.)

Klaus-Michael Kühne Prize : Flood and soil by Per Leo

Kleist Prize : Marcel Beyer

Kleist Prize : Michel Decar for Jenny Jannowitz

Kranichsteiner Literature Prize : David Wagner

Kurd Laßwitz Prize :

Best novel: Wolfgang Jeschke for Dschiheads
Best story: Michael Marrak for Coen Sloterdyke's diametrically levitating Chronoversum
Best Foreign Novel: Jo Walton for In Another World

Leonhard Frank Award : Secret Society of Ulrike Schäfer

Literature Prize of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation : Rüdiger Safranski

Literature Prize of the City of Munich : Hans Pleschinski

Literature Prize of the City of Bremen : Clemens Meyer for Im Stein ; Advancement award to Roman Ehrlich for the cold year

Literature Prize of the Kulturkreis der deutschen Wirtschaft :

Ruhr Literature Prize : Marianne Brentzel (main prize winner)

Lynx of the Year : The Amazing Adventures of Maulina Schmitt (trilogy) by Finn-Ole Heinrich (author) and Rán Flygenring (illustrator)

Ludwig Börne Prize : Florian Illies

Orphil Poetry Prize : Karin Kiwus for The Face of the World (main prize); Levin Westermann moved for unknown (debut award)

Mainz town clerk : Judith Schalansky

Mara Cassens Prize : Machandel by Regina Scheer

Marie Luise Kaschnitz Prize for 2015: Lutz Seiler for the entire work

Moerser Literature Prize : Sebastian Polmans

Mülheim Dramatist Prize : Wolfram Höll for And Then

NDR Kultur non-fiction book prize : Pandora's box. History of the First World War by Jörn Leonhard

Lower Rhine Literature Prize : Hans Pleschinski

Oldenburg Children's and Young People's Book Prize : And also so bitterly cold from Lara Schützsack

Oskar Pastior Prize : Marcel Beyer

Peter Huchel Prize for poetry: Steffen Popp for thicket with speeches and eyes

The political book : Hannelore Schlaffer for Die City. Street life in the planned city

postpoetry.NRW (selection): Christoph Danne , Dominik Dombrowski , Jürgen Flenker , Liesel Willems

Leipzig Book Fair Prize :

Fiction: Saša Stanišić for Before the Festival
Nonfiction / essay writing: Helmut Lethen for Der Schatten des Photographer
Translation: Robin Detje for translation from American English by Europe Central by William T. Vollmann

LiteraTour Nord award : Ralph Dutli

Rainer Malkowski Prize : Mirko Bonné and Daniela Danz

Pied Piper Literature Prize : The Child in the Moon by Jürg Schubiger (author) and Aljoscha Blau (illustr.)

Reinhold Schneider Prize : Klaus Theweleit ; Sponsorship award: Lisa Kränzler

Rheingau Literature Prize : Stephanie Bart for German Master

Robert Gernhardt Prize :

Kurt Drawert for his poetry project Understanding and Waste
Ulrike Syha for her novel project Der Korridor

Roswitha Prize : Gertrud Leutenegger

Saxon Literature Prize : Jan Kuhlbrodt

Squidward Troll Prize : Katrin Zipse for the time of the lucky dragon

Thomas Mann Prize : Rüdiger Safranski

Toucan prize : The staying power of Nina Jäckle

Ulla Hahn Author Award : And also so bitterly cold from Lara Schützsack

Most unusual book title of the year : We are happy, the corners of our mouths point into the starry night like Angela Merkel's when she does a handstand by Thomas Spitzer

Uwe Johnson Prize : Lutz Seiler for Kruso

Walter Hasenclever Literature Prize : Michael Köhlmeier

Wilhelm Lehmann Prize : Ann Cotten

Wilhelm Raabe Literature Prize : Thomas Hettche for Pfaueninsel

Wolfgang Koeppen Prize : Karl-Heinz Ott

International literary prizes

AKO Literatuurprijs : Oorlog en terpentijn by Stefan Hertmans

Alemannic Literature Prize : Thomas Hürlimann

Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction :

Fiction: The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
Nonfiction: The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism by Doris Kearns Goodwin

Anisfield-Wolf Book Award (selection):

Fiction: A Constellation of Vital Phenomena by Anthony Marra
Nonfiction: My Promised Land: The Triumph and Tragedy of Israel by Ari Shavit
Lifetime Achievement: Wilson Harris and George Lamming

Anton Wildgans Prize : Barbara Hundegger

Astrid Lindgren Memorial Prize : Barbro Lindgren

Astrid Lindgren Prize (Sweden) : Frida Nilsson

August price (selection):

Category textbook: Naturlära by Lars Lerin
Category children's and young people's books: Mördarens apa by Jakob Wegelius

Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction : A Girl Is A Half-Formed Thing by Eimear McBride

Bancroft Prize (selection): Fear Itself: The New Deal and the Origins of Our Time by Ira Katznelson

Basel Poetry Prize : Anja Utler

BMF badge :

Adult literature: Jag heter inte Miriam von Majgull Axelsson

Children's and young adult literature: Silverpojken by Kristina Ohlsson

BNG Nieuwe Literatuurprijs : Maartje Wortel for IJstijd ("Ice Age")

Bokhandlerprisen : Svøm med das som drukner by Lars Mytting

Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize : Edward St Aubyn for Lost for Words

Wroclaw Poetry Prize Silesius :

Complete works: Darek Foks
Book of the year: W innych okolicznościach by Mariusz Grzebalski
Debut of the year: Moja jest ta ziemia by Martyna Buliżańska

Bridge Berlin : Serhij Schadan (author) and the translators Sabine Stöhr and Juri Durkot for The Invention of Jazz in Donbass

Bruno Kreisky Prize for the political book (selection):

Main prize: Najem Wali for Baghdad Marlboro
Complete journalistic work: Gudrun Harrer

Book Prize of the Viennese Economy : Friederike Mayröcker

Carnegie Medal : The Bunker Diary by Kevin Brooks

Cervantes Prize : Juan Goytisolo

Compton Crook Award : Fire With Fire by Charles E. Gannon

Cordwainer Smith Rediscovery Award : Mildred Clingerman

Costa Book Award :

Roman: How to be Both (dt. From DC to DC ) by Ali Smith
First novel: Elizabeth is Missing (engl. Elizabeth is missing ) by Emma Healey
Children's book: Five Children on the Western Front by Kate Saunders
Poetry: My Family and Other Superheroes by Jonathan Edwards
Biography: H Is For Hawk (Eng. H for Habicht ) by Helen Macdonald (also Costa Book of the Year )

Danuta Gleed Literary Award : Paul Carlucci for The Secret Life of Fission

De Inktaap : The name of Tommy Wieringa

DR Novel Prize : The sønderjyske farm by Erling Jepsen

Dylan Thomas Prize : Joshua Ferris with To Rise Again at a Decent Hour

Encore Award : The Lives of Others by Neel Mukherjee

Erich Fried Prize : Judith Hermann

Euregio student literature prize : Zomerhuis met zwembad by Herman Koch

European Prize for Literature : Jon Fosse

FIL Prize : Claudio Magris

Finlandia Prize : He eivät tiedä mitä tekevät by Jussi Valtonen

Frans Kellendonk Prize : Esther Gerritsen for the complete work

Franz Hessel Prize : Esther Kinsky and Christine Montalbetti

Franz Kafka Literature Prize : Yán Liánkē

Franz Theodor Csokor Prize : Peter Paul Wiplinger

Frost Medal : Gerald Stern

Georg Trakl Prize for Poetry : Waltraud Seidlhofer

Geschwister-Scholl-Prize : Glenn Greenwald for global surveillance. The Snowden case, the American secret services and the consequences

Goldsmiths Prize : Ali Smith for How to Be Both

Governor General's Award for Fiction :

In French: Bondrée by Andrée A. Michaud
In English: The Back of the Turtle by Thomas King

Grand Prix du Roman : Constellation by Adrien Bosc

Griffin Poetry Prize :

Canadian: Anne Carson for Red Doc>
International: Brenda Hillman for Seasonal Works with Letters on Fire

Big Bern Literature Prize : Matthias Zschokke for the entire literary work

Grand Prix of Samfundet De Nio : Kjell Westö

HC Artmann Prize for Poetry: Elfriede Czurda

HC Artmann grant : Ljubko Deresch

Hans Christian Andersen Prize : Nahoko Uehashi

Hawthornden Prize : Dear Boy by Emily Berry

Hemingway Foundation PEN Award : We Need New Names by NoViolet Bulawayo

Hertzogprys for poetry: Kaar by Marlene van Niekerk

Hoffmann von Fallersleben Prize : July Zeh

Horst Bienek Prize for Poetry : Geoffrey Hill ; Sponsorship awards: Tadeusz Dąbrowski and Daniel Pietrek

Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize : David Stouck for Arthur Erickson: An Architect's Life

Independent Foreign Fiction Prize : Hassan Blasim (author) for The Iraqi Christ

Ingeborg Bachmann Prize : Tex Rubinowitz : We were never here

International Literature Prize - House of World Cultures : Dany Laferrière (author) and Beate Thill (translation) for The Riddle of Return

International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award : The Sound of Things Falling (German title: The sound of things falling ) by Juan Gabriel Vásquez

International Prize for Arabic Fiction : Frankenstein in Baghdad by Ahmed Saadawi

Irish Book Awards (selection):

Novel: Academy Street by Mary Costello
Nonfiction book: The Life and Loves of a He Devil by Graham Norton
Children's book: Shh! We Have a Plan by Chris Haughton
Youth book: Moone Boy by Chris O'Dowd and Nick Vincent Murphy
Popular literature: The Year I Met You by Cecelia Ahern
Newcomer: Only Ever Yours by Louise O'Neill
Short Story: Rest Day by John Boyne
Sports book: The Test by Brian O'Driscoll
Crime: Unraveling Oliver by Liz Nugent
Life's work: Paul Durcan

Isidora Sekulić Prize : David Albahari for Životinjsko carstvo (German: The Animal Kingdom )

Italo Svevo Prize : Jochen Missfeldt

James Tait Black Memorial Prize :

Narrative literature: Harvest by Jim Crace
Biography: Penelope Fitzgerald: A Life by Hermione Lee
Drama: Cannibals by Rory Mullarkey

James Tiptree, Jr. Award : The Girl in the Road by Monica Byrne and My Real Children by Jo Walton

Kerry Group Irish Fiction Award : Eimear McBride for A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing

KrimiZEIT leaderboard : Rain Gods by James Lee Burke

Critics' prizes (Norway) (selection):

Best book: Ingvild H. Rishøi for Vinternoveller
Best children's or youth book: Gro Dahle and Svein Nyhus for Akvarium

Lannan Lifetime Achievement Award : Steve Erickson

Leo Perutz Prize : Men's Traps by Eva Rossmann

LiBeraturpreis : Raja Alem for the collar of the pigeons

Libris Literature Prize : La Superba by Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer

Lieutenant Governor's Award for Literary Excellence : Kit Pearson

Alpha Literature Prize : Eva Menasse for quasicrystals

Nordic Council Literature Prize : Kjell Westö for Hägring 38

Literature Prize of the City of Vienna : Wilhelm Pevny

Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Poetry : Citizen: An American Lyric by Claudia Rankine

Man Booker Prize for Fiction : The Narrow Road to the Deep North by Richard Flanagan

Matt Cohen Prize : Susan Musgrave

Max Frisch Prize of the City of Zurich : Robert Menasse

Miles Franklin Award : All The Birds, Singing by Evie Wyld

Musgrave Medal in Gold (Literature Section): Anthony C. Winkler

Nadal Literature Prize : Carmen Amoraga for La vida era eso

National Book Awards :

Prose: Phil Klay with redeployment (German title: We shot dogs too )
Nonfiction: Evan Osnos with Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China
Poetry: Louise Glück with Faithful and Virtuous Night
Youth book: Jacqueline Woodson with Brown Girl Dreaming
Special merits (life's work): Kyle Zimmer
Literary life's work: Ursula K. Le Guin

National Book Critics Circle Award (selection):

Lyric: Citizen: An American Lyric by Claudia Rankine
Novel: Purple by Marilynne Robinson
Non-fiction book: The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Emancipation by David Brion Davis
Autobiography: Can't We Talk About Something More Pleasant? by Roz Chast
Life's work: Toni Morrison

Neustadt International Prize for Literature : Mia Couto

Newbery Medal : Flora & Ulysses by Kate DiCamillo

Nike :

Main prize: Zajeździmy kobyłę historii. Wyznania poobijanego jeźdźca by Karol Modzelewski
Audience Award: Ości by Ignacy Karpowicz

Nobel Prize in Literature : Patrick Modiano

Nordic Prize of the Swedish Academy : Lars Gustafsson

Orwell Award : The Onion

Orwell Prize :

Book: This Boy: A Memoir of a Childhood by Alan Johnson
Special award: Jonathan Freedland

Austrian Children's and Youth Book Prize :

Linda Wolfsgruber : Ark
Rosemarie Eichinger : Do dead strawberry cakes eat?
Christine Nöstlinger : When my father wanted to marry Anna Lachs' mother
Heidi Trpak , Laura Momo Aufderhaar : Gerda Gelse

Austrian art prize for children's and youth literature : Edith Schreiber-Wicke

Austrian State Prize for European Literature : Lyudmila Ulitskaja

Austrian State Prize for Cultural Journalism : Peter Strasser

Austrian State Prize for Literary Translation (... into German): Erich Hackl

Park Kyung ni Literature Prize : Bernhard Schlink

PC Hooft Prize : Willem Jan Otten

PEN / Faulkner Award : Karen Joy Fowler , We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves

Per Olov Enquist Prize : Dorthe Nors

Petrarca Prize : Franz Mon and Tomas Venclova

Premi Sant Jordi de novella : L'àguila negra by Joan Carreras i Goicoechea

Premio Alfaguara de Novela : Jorge Franco for El mundo de afuera

Premio Bancarella : L'amore è tutto. È tutto ciò cheso dell'amore by Michela Marzano

Premio Biblioteca Breve : Ávidas pretensiones by Fernando Aramburu

Prémio Camões : Alberto da Costa e Silva

Premio Campiello : Morte di un uomo felice by Giorgio Fontana

Gregor von Rezzori Prize (Best Foreign Work): The Bridge of Coca by Maylis de Kerangal

Premio Iberoamericano de Narrativa Manuel Rojas : Horacio Castellanos Moya

Prêmio Jabuti (selection):

Category “Contos e crônicas”: Amálgama by Rubem Fonseca
Categories “Livro do Ano Ficção” and “Livro infantil”: Breve História de um Pequeno Amor by Marina Colasanti
"Novel" category: Reprodução by Bernardo Carvalho

Prémio LeYa : O Meu Irmão by Afonso Reis Cabral

Prêmio Machado de Assis : Vamireh Chacon

Premio Nacional de Literatura de Chile : Antonio Skármeta

Premio Planeta : Jorge Zepeda Patterson for Milena o el fémur más bello del mundo

Premio Strega : Il desiderio di essere come tutti by Francesco Piccolo

Prince of Asturias Prize for Literature : John Banville

Prix Claude-Farrère : Serge Revel

Prix Décembre : Sigmund Freud en son temps et dans le nôtre by Élisabeth Roudinesco

Prix Femina : Bain de lune by Yanick Lahens

Prix Femina Essai : Et dans l'éternité je ne m'ennuierai pas by Paul Veyne

Prix Femina Étranger : Ce qui reste de nos vies by Zeruya Shalev

Prix Goncourt (novel) : Pas pleurer by Lydie Salvayre

Prix Goncourt des lycéens : Charlotte by David Foenkinos

Prix littéraire de l'armée de Terre - Erwan Bergot : Le pays du lieutenant scribe by Andreï Makine

Prix du livre européen :

Category Essay: Turbulent and Mighty Continent: What Future for Europe? by Anthony Giddens
Category novel: La robe de Hannah. Berlin 1904–2014 by Pascale Hugues