Literature year 2015

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Further events

Events

January 21: In the course of the conversion of the Suhrkamp Verlag into a stock corporation, it is announced that the Ströher family of entrepreneurs will join the company. Ulla Unseld-Berkéwicz will move to the supervisory board; According to the information, the majority of the shares will in future be owned jointly by the Unseld-Berkéwicz family foundation and the Ströher family, if the family foundation has a majority of the voting rights. On December 10, 2015, Unseld-Berkéwicz took over the supervisory board chairmanship of Suhrkamp Verlag AG as a final measure in the reorganization of the publishing house. The new sole director (= publisher) of Suhrkamp AG is Jonathan Landgrebe .

23 January: The publisher Wolfgang Beck announces that he will hand over the literary management of the Munich publishing house CH Beck to his son Jonathan on February 1, 2015 .

January 30th: In a fire in a library building of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow , part of the inventory is destroyed or severely damaged.

February: Campus-Verlag is completely taken over by the Beltz publishing group , according to both houses .

February 13: The Weltbild publishing group announces that it plans to sell 70 of its remaining 145 bookstores "to a medium-sized bookstore chain".

In spring: Founding of Divan Verlag

12-15 March: Leipzig Book Fair ; Host country: Israel

0April 2nd: International Children's Book Day

April 23: World Book Day

May 21: The German-language Penguin Verlag is founded in Munich .

June 16: Bloomsday

July 22nd: The buyer of 67 former Weltbild branches, the bookstore chain LesensArt, goes bankrupt.

9-19 September: 15th International Literature Festival Berlin

September 26: In place of the previous KulturSPIEGEL published as a supplement to the mirror for the first time the literature mirror that accompanied the news magazine ten times per year, but also on Spiegel Online is to be reached.

From October 2: Under the direction of Volker Weidermann is The Literary Quartet re-broadcast.

October 14: In the Börsenblatt a “ homosexual hostile ” as well as a “book that discriminates against homosexuals by title” can be advertised.

14.-18. October: Frankfurt Book Fair ; Host country: Indonesia . The Swiss Diogenes Verlag published at the beginning of April d. J. announced that he would not take part in the book fair due to the currently unfavorable currency situation. Iran canceled its participation at short notice due to the presence of Salman Rushdie at the book fair, but around ten Iranian publishers did not follow this official decision.

October 20: After the public statement by its previous author Akif Pirinçci : “Unfortunately, the concentration camps are currently out of order.” The Random House publishing group terminates the existing contracts with him and stops the delivery of the books he has published there.

3rd-7th November: 19th German-language poetry slam championship in Augsburg

November 12th: According to a ruling by the ECJ , the previous distribution practice of VG Wort may also be partially illegal in Germany .

November 15th: The Phantastik-Author-Network is founded in Cologne .

November 17: The Palestinian poet Ashraf Fayadh is sentenced to death by a court in Saudi Arabia with reference to a book he wrote for "apostasy from the Muslim faith".

November 24: Klaus-Dieter Lehmann's appointment as President of the Goethe-Institut is extended by four years ahead of schedule.

December 23: With the dispatch of the last books, the Bertelsmann Book Club ends its activities after 65 years.

December 31: In Israel, numerous writers protest against the order by the Israeli Ministry of Education not to include the novel Borderlife by the author Dorit Rabinyan in high school classes because of “a threat to Jewish identity”.

2015: The German Bookstore Awards are presented for the first time in Germany .

2015: The Homunculus Verlag and the literary magazine Seitenstechen are founded in Erlangen .

2015: The 12th and final volume of the children's book series How to Train Your Dragon by Cressida Cowell is published .

Anniversaries (selection)

50th birthday

0February 1: Louise Welsh , British writer
February 28: Colum McCann , Irish writer
0March 4: Khaled Hosseini , Afghan-American writer
May 14: Eoin Colfer , Irish writer
May 30th: Anna Langhoff , German writer
June 12: Wolfgang Herrndorf , German writer († 2013)
July 31: Joanne K. Rowling , British writer
0August 4th: Dennis Lehane , American crime writer
August 23: Ilija Trojanow , German writer, translator, editor and publisher
September 21: Frédéric Beigbeder , French writer
0October 2nd: Keith Ridgway , Irish writer
October 22: AL Kennedy , British writer
October 24: Zsuzsa Bánk , German writer
November 23: Marcel Beyer , German writer
November 29th: Susanne Schädlich , German writer and translator
December 26th: Mani Beckmann , German writer
December 31: Nicholas Sparks , American writer

100th birthday

0January 1: François Bondy , Swiss writer and translator († 2003)
0January 5: Louis Awad , Egyptian literary critic, poet and writer († 1990)
07 January: Erwin Wickert , German diplomat and writer († 2008)
January 20: CW Ceram , German journalist and science author († 1972)
January 28: Elisabeth Frenzel , German literary scholar († 2014)
January 29: Halfdan Rasmussen , Danish poet († 2002)
0February 1: Léopold Hoffmann , German-speaking Luxembourgish writer († 2008)
0February 5: Margaret Millar , Canadian crime novelist († 1994)
February 16: Elisabeth Eybers , South African-Dutch poet († 2007)
March 10: Jón Dan Jónsson , Icelandic writer († 2000)
March 11: Karl Krolow , German writer († 1999)
March 29: Denton Welch , English painter and writer († 1948)
0April 7: Henry Kuttner , American writer († 1958)
0April 9: Leonard Wibberley , Irish-American writer († 1983)
April 10: Leo Vroman , Dutch-American writer († 2014)
April 13: Stephan Hermlin , German writer († 1997)
April 15: Tista Murk , Swiss Rhaeto-Romanic. Writer and playwright († 1992)
April 23: Christine Busta , Austrian poet († 1987)
May 27: Herman Wouk , American author († 2019)
May 31: Judith Wright , Australian poet and writer († 2000)
0June 2: Ross Macdonald , American crime novelist († 1983)
June 10: Saul Bellow , American writer († 2005)
June 17th: Geno Hartlaub , German writer († 2007)
June 24: Fred Hoyle , British scientist and writer († 2001)
June 25: Salme Raatma , Estonian poet and children's book author († 2008)
June 26: Walter Farley , American writer for young people († 1989)
June 27: Grace Lee Boggs , American civil rights activist and author († 2015)
0July 4th: Christine Lavant , Austrian artist and writer († 1973)
August 24: James Tiptree junior , American SF writer († 1987)
September 17: Adolfo Sánchez Vázquez , Spanish-Mexican philosopher and writer († 2011)
0October 1: Jerome Bruner , American psychologist and essayist
October 17: Arthur Miller , American writer († 2005)
October 28: Jürgen Thorwald , German writer († 2006)
November 12: Roland Barthes , French literary critic, writer, philosopher and semiotic († 1980)
November 27: Adonias Filho , Brazilian writer († 1990)
November 30th: Edith Anderson , American writer and translator, living in Germany since 1947 († 1999)
0December 7th: Franz Josef Tripp , German writer and (children's book) illustrator († 1978)
December 20: Aziz Nesin , Turkish educator and writer († 1995)

More birthdays

February 12th: 200th year of birth John Retcliffe , German writer
February 19: 150th b. Sven Hedin , Swedish (travel) writer
February 26th: 300th birthday Claude Adrien Helvétius , French Enlightenment philosopher
February 28: 150th birthday Arthur Symons , British lyric poet and critic
0March 4th: 150th b. Eduard Vilde , Estonian writer and journalist
0March 8th: 150th b. Leo Belmont , Polish writer, poet and translator
March 27: 250th birthday Franz von Baader , German philosopher
March 28: 500th birthday Teresa of Ávila , Spanish mystic
0May 6: 200th year of birth Eugène Labiche , French comedy poet
May 13: 500th birthday Johann Stigel , German poet and rhetorician
May 21: 200th birthday Adolf Böttger , German writer and translator
May / June: 750th b. Dante Alighieri , Italian poet
June 8: 200th year of birth Élie Berthet , French writer
June 13: 150th birthday William Butler Yeats , Irish poet and writer
June 15: 250th birthday Henry Thomas Colebrooke , British Sanskritist
June 28: 150th birthday Otto Julius Bierbaum , German writer
0July 2nd: 150th year of birth Lily Braun , German writer
0July 4th: 300th birthday Christian Fürchtegott Gellert , German poet, playwright, narrator
July / August: 850th b. Muhyī d-Dīn Ibn ʿArabī , Islamic mystic
August 28: 200th birthday Ferdinando Petruccelli della Gattina , Italian journalist and writer
0October 4th: 150th year of birth Max Halbe , German writer
October 17th: 200th birthday Emanuel Geibel , German writer and poet
October 18: 150th b. Logan Pearsall Smith , British storyteller, essayist and aphorist
October 29: 200th birthday Ľudovít Štúr , Slovak philologist and writer
0November 6th: 150th birthday Alexander von Gleichen-Rußwurm , German writer, biographer and translator
0November 7th: 150th b. Kosugi Tengai , Japanese writer
December 21: 300th birthday François-Vincent Toussaint , French writer and encyclopedist
December 22nd: 200th year of birth Johann Jakob Bachofen , Swiss historian, anthropologist and author
December 30th: 150th birthday Rudyard Kipling , British writer

50th anniversary of death

0January 4: TS Eliot , English-language poet and playwright
0January 8: Volodymyr Sosyura , Ukrainian poet
January 24th: Winston Churchill , British politician and writer
May 19: Maria Dąbrowska , Polish writer
June 10: Max Rychner , Swiss journalist and writer
June 13: Martin Buber , Austrian-Israeli religious philosopher and author
0July 4th: Edward Sackville-West , British music critic and writer
July 10: Jacques Audiberti , French writer, poet and playwright
July 19: Ingrid Jonker , South African poet
0September 2: Johannes Bobrowski , German poet and narrator
0September 4th: Albert Schweitzer , Franco-German (...), philosopher and author
0October 3: Max Picard , Swiss writer
October 22nd: Paul Tillich , German-American religious philosopher and author
0December 6: Walter Muschg , Swiss literary historian and essayist
December 16: William Somerset Maugham , British storyteller and playwright

100th anniversary of death

0April 8: Louis Pergaud , French writer
April 12th: Domenico Gnoli , Italian writer, poet and translator
April 23: Rupert Brooke , British poet
April 24th: Daniel Waruschan , Armenian writer
after April 24: Smbat Biurat , Armenian writer
after April 24: Eruchan , Armenian writer and journalist
after April 24: Levon Larents , Armenian poet, journalist and teacher
after April 24: Kegham Parseghian , Armenian writer
after April 24: Harutiun Schahrigian , Armenian writer
after April 24th: Siamanto , Armenian poet
after April 24th: Hagop Terzian , Armenian pharmacist and book author
after April 24: Krikor Torosyan , Armenian satirist and cartoonist
after April 24th: Dikran Tschögürjan , Armenian novelist, painter and publisher
June 20: Tlgadintsi , Armenian writer
0August 2nd: Krikor Zohrab , Ottoman-Armenian lawyer, writer and politician
August 16: Ardasches Harutünjan , Ottoman-Armenian literary critic, poet and translator
August 16: Rupen Zartarian , Ottoman-Armenian writer, poet and translator
August 19: Tevfik Fikret , Ottoman poet
August 26: Rupen Sevag , Ottoman-Armenian poet, prose writer and doctor
August 27: Felix Poppenberg , German writer
0September 1: August Stramm , German poet and playwright of German Expressionism
October 11th: Jean-Henri Fabre , French scientist and writer
October 15th: Paul Scheerbart , German writer of fantastic literature and illustrator
October 18: Karl Eugen Neumann , Austrian author and translator (also 150th birthday)
October 20: Diran Kelekian , Armenian journalist and translator
November 19: Joe Hill , Swedish-American singer and songwriter
November 21: Johannes Trojan , German writer
0December 6: Rudolf Lavant , German writer

More days of death

January 21: 200th anniversary of death from Matthias Claudius , German poet
February 25: 150th anniversary of death from Otto Ludwig , German writer, poet and playwright
0April 5: 250th anniversary of death from Edward Young , English poet
April 15: 250th anniversary of death from Mikhail Lomonosov , Russian poet and polymath
April 30: 1950. Lucan , Roman poet
May 19: 300th anniversary of death BC Charles Montagu , English politician and poet
0June 1: 400th anniversary of death al-Burini , Ottoman scholar and chronicler
June 29 (?): 700th anniversary of death before Ramon Llull , Mallorcan philosopher and logician
0August 4: 150th anniversary of death from William Edmonstoune Aytoun , Scottish writer and poet
0November 7th: 150th anniversary of death from Mélesville , French playwright
November 12: 150th anniversary of death from Elizabeth Gaskell , British writer
0December 2: 200th anniversary of death before Jan Potocki , Polish historian and writer
0December 4: 150th anniversary of death from Adolph Kolping , German priest, author and publicist
December 13: 450th anniversary of death BC Conrad Gessner , Swiss polymath and bibliographer
December 31: 150th anniversary of death from Fredrika Bremer , Swedish writer

New releases

Novels, short stories

Indictment - John Grisham
Aquamarine - Andreas Eschbach
The buried giant - Kazuo Ishiguro
Blood on Snow. The assignment - Jo Nesbø
The blood of the rebel - Sabrina Qunaj
The Blood School - Sebastian Fitzek (under the pseudonym "Max Rhode")
Butcher's Crossing - John Williams
Cartagena - Claudia Amengual
Coin Locker Babies - Ryū Murakami
Dictator - Robert Harris
Dirty piece - Clémentine Beauvais
Eleanor & Park - Rainbow Rowell
Eleven days in Berlin - Håkan Nesser
The end of Eddy - Édouard Louis
The invention of the grand piano - Sue Monk Kidd
The invention of the Red Army Faction by a manic-depressive teenager in the summer of 1969 - Frank Witzel
Extinction - Kazuaki Takano
The festival of insignificance - Milan Kundera
Foxglove Summer - Ben Aaronovitch
Frank - Richard Ford
Go find a guard - Harper Lee
Go, go, go - Jenny Erpenbeck
The story of loneliness - John Boyne
Girl on the Train - Paula Hawkins
The glittering world - Siri Hustvedt
H for hawk - Helen Macdonald
Horcynus Orca - Stefano D'Arrigo
Die in spring - Ralf Rothmann
The Joshua profile - Sebastian Fitzek
Judas - Amos Oz
The cartel - Don Winslow
The Long War - Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxter
Long Mars - Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxter
Call of the Gold - Jack London (1st complete translation into German)
Maggie and the City of Thieves (children's book) - Patrick Hertweck
Max, Mischa & Tetoffensiven - Johan Harstad
Meijin - Kawabata Yasunari
Zero number - Umberto Eco
The Palace of the Seas - Rebecca Gablé
Pinball 1973 - Haruki Murakami
The puppeteers from Flore - Lilli Thal
Reckless. The golden thread - Cornelia Funke
The Red Queen - Victoria Aveyard
Runa - Vera Buck
S. - Theseus' Ship - Doug Dorst and JJ Abrams
One sams too many - Paul Maar
Snow Giant - Susan Kreller
Silence (NA) - Endō Shūsaku
Self-portrait with a hippopotamus - Arno Geiger
Summer novella - Christiane Neudecker
Punishment - Håkan Nesser and "Paula Polanski"
The funeral artist - Veit Etzold
The one believed dead - a true story - Michael Punke
The tutors - Bora Ćosić
Innocence - Jonathan Franzen
An impeccable man - Jane Gardam
Submission - Michel Houellebecq
Maybe we can stay (children's book) - Ingeborg Kringeland Hald
The Truth Finder - Donald Antrim
What remains for us now is - Meg Wolitzer
When the wind sings - Haruki Murakami
Show yourself, killer - Louis Begley

Further literature

The 120 days of Sodom (play) - Christoph Klimke (libretto)
Alma and the Genius (Musical) - Tom van Hasselt
The Arab of Tomorrow: A Childhood in the Middle East (1978–1984) (Graphic Novel - Autobiography) - Riad Sattouf (Translator: Andreas Platthaus )
Baghdad. Memories of a cosmopolitan city - Najem Wali
Biographical Lexicon for Pomerania (Vol. 2); Ed .: Dirk Alvermann and Nils Jörn
Dare to Disappoint: Growing up in Turkey (Graphic Novel) - Özge Samanci
I put your letters under the mattress - correspondence between Astrid Lindgren and Sara Schwardt
The golden cage (picture book) - Anna Castagnoli (author) and Carll Cneut (illustrator)
The big congestion (polemic) - Akif Pirinçci
Hamilton (musical) - Lin-Manuel Miranda
Der Hauptmann von Köpenick (musical) - Heiko Stang (music and lyrics)
Autumn blonde (autobiography) - Thomas Gottschalk
Homo Empathicus (Drama) - Rebekka Kricheldorf
Ignorance as state protection? - Max Frisch (posthumously); Ed .: David Gugerli and Hannes Mangold
The Kamishibai Man (Picture Book) - Allen Say
King Arthur's Fall - JRR Tolkien (posthumous); Ed .: Christopher Tolkien
Humanity has lost its mind (Diaries 1939–1945) - Astrid Lindgren
Mohamed - A settlement - Hamed Abdel-Samad
Montaignes Tower (essays) - Uwe Timm
Polina's diary - Polina Scherebzowa
Rosel von Melaten (illustr. Children's book) - Nikolaus Heidelbach
The trunk - Wolfgang Bauer (drama; posthumous)
The Story of Kullervo - Verlyn Flieger (based on a design by JRR Tolkien )
Diary of a librarian (Vol. I and II) - Helmuth Schönauer
Tristan or Isolde? Wagner Untold (drama) - Uwe Hoppe
What Google really wants - Thomas Schulz

Died

0January 1: Ulrich Beck
0January 1: Kurt Koszyk
0January 1: Miller Williams
0January 3: Werner Kopacka
0January 4th: Edmund Wnuk-Lipiński
0January 7th: Elsa Cayat
0January 7th: Tadeusz Konwicki
0January 7th: Burkhardt Lindner
0January 7th: Bernard Maris
0January 7th: Julio Scherer García
0January 9: Emil Breisach
0January 9: Michel Jeury
January 11th: Hans-Georg Wiedemann
January 14: Josef Brukner
January 15th: Arnaldo Calveyra
January 16: Miriam Akavia
January 17: George W. Grace
January 18: Hans Stilett
January 19: Rajni Kothari
January 19: Hubert Maessen
January 20: Georg Lohmeier
January 20: Alfonsas Nyka-Niliūnas
January 23: Pedro Lemebel
January 24th: Dieter Masuhr
January 27: Günther Maria Garzaner
January 27: Suzette Haden Elgin
January 29th: Kono Taeko
January 29th: Will McBride
January 29th: Colleen McCullough
January 29th: Rod McKuen
January 29th: Fritz Pawelzik
January 29: Claus Uhlig
January 30th: Carl Djerassi
January 30th: Irene Greven
0February 2nd: Lothar Deplazes
0February 5th: Heinz-Peter Baecker
0February 5th: Hansjakob Stehle
0February 6: Peter Abraham
0February 6: André Brink
0February 6th: Assia Djebar
0February 6: Willy Purucker
0February 7th: Herold Belger
0February 8: Margarete Müller-Henning
0February 9: Roman Frister
February 11: Anne Cuneo
February 13: Geneviève Dormann
February 14: Bernd Dost
February 14th: Philip Levine
February 14: Christian Sigrist
February 14: Hans-Jürgen Teuteberg
February 16: John Davies
February 16: Ernst Röhl
February 20: Erwin Lademann
February 21: Daniel Topolski
February 23: James Aldridge
February 24th: Hanswilhelm Haefs
February 24th: Bertrice Small
February 25: Charlotte Bechstein
February 26: Pere Maria Orts i Bosch
February 26: Fritz J. Raddatz
February 26th: Avijit Roy
February 27: Leonard Nimoy
February 28: Clifford Edmund Bosworth
February 28: Yaşar Kemal
0March 1: Joshua Fishman
0March 1st: Kurt Imhof
0March 1st: HC Petersen
0March 2nd: Gerhard Isermann
0March 2nd: Joseph Kohnen
0March 2nd: Johannes Kunisch
0March 2nd: Mal Peet
0March 5th: Rolf Persch
0March 6: Walter Biemel
0March 8: Wolfgang Wieland
0March 9th: HH ter Balkt
March 10: Harri Pritchard Jones
March 11: Walter Burkert
March 12: Terry Pratchett
March 14th: Valentin Rasputin
March 14th: Günther Wirth
March 15: Peter Neitzke
March 18: Grace Ogot
March 19: Safet Plakalo
March 19: Mordecai Roshwald
March 23: Herberto Helder
March 25th: Ilse Hangert
March 25: Karlheinz Ingenkamp
March 26th: Luís Miguel Rocha
March 26th: Tomas Tranströmer
2 *. March: David Axmann
March 30th: Karl Alexander
March 30th: Rudolf C. Bettschart
March 30th: Roger Slifer
March 31: Roland Links
0April 2: Bob Grumman
0April 2: Abdelhadi Tazi
0April 3: Traute Foresti
0April 4th: Klaus Rifbjerg
0April 6: Walter Haubrich
0April 8: Jayakanthan
0April 8: Hermann Schweppenhäuser
0April 9: Ulrich Weber
April 10: Judith Malina
April 11th: François Maspero
April 13: Eduardo Galeano
April 13: Günter Grass
April 14th: Klaus Bednarz
April 14th: Muhammad Rassoul
April 16: Birgit Rommelspacher
April 18: Michael Theunissen
April 19: Christopher Alan Bayly
April 19: Raymond Carr
April 19: Kristian Olsen
April 20: Frederic Morton
April 21: MH Abrams
April 22nd: Helmut Schnelle
April 22nd: Gerhard Wehr
April 23: Christian Berthelsen
April 23: Richard Corliss
April 24th: Władysław Bartoszewski
April 24th: Hans Krämer
April 25: Matthias Kuhle
April 25: Siegfried Mattl
April 27: Justus Müller Hofstede
April 28th: Marcia Brown
April 29: Ruth Bunkenburg
April 29th: Carola Matthiesen
April 29: Walter Rüegg
April 30th: Thilo Götze Rainbow
April 30th: William Pfaff
April: Elisabeth Axmann
0May 1st: Rolf Bergmann
0May 2: Michael Blake
0May 2: Ruth Rendell
0May 3: Walter Foelske
0May 3: Eberhard Lämmert
0May 4th: Wolfgang Suppan
0May 6: Michael O'Brien
0May 6: Siegfried Wichmann
0May 7: Claude Durand
0May 8: Hubert Bär
0May 9: Odo Marquard
0May 9: Christopher Wood
May 11: Jef Geeraerts
May 12: Peter Gay
May 13th: Marcus Brühl
May 13: Michael Steindl
May 16: Stavros Mentzos
May 17th: Oscar Collazos
May 17th: Chōkitsu Kurumatani
May 18: Wolf von Schilgen
May 19: Dieter Bartetzko
May 19: Robert S. Wistrich
May 20th: Gust van Brussel
May 23: Moyra Caldecott
May 24th: Tanith Lee
May 25: Robert E. Margroff
May 28: Hans Bender
May 28: Charles Hannam
May 29: Walter Mossmann
May 29th: Käthe Recheis
May 30th: Alfred Neven DuMont
May 30th: Harro Segeberg
May 31: Eberhard Dünninger
0June 3: Eugene Kennedy
0June 4th: Arno Klönne
0June 4th: Hermann Zapf
0June 6: Vincent Bugliosi
0June 6: Ludvík Vaculík
0June 7th: Ihor Rossochowatskyj
0June 7th: Paul Sahner
0June 8: Paul Bacon
0June 8th: Harry Böseke
0June 8: Charles W. Runyon
0June 9: Jochen Bepler
June 10: Wolfgang Jeschke
June 12: Peter Boerner
June 12: René Schweizer
June 13: Drs. P
June 13: Lothar Gruchmann
June 15: Harry Rowohlt
June 15: Josef Topol
June 16: Diethelm Brüggemann
June 16: Ernst Eggimann
June 16: Jean Vautrin
June 17: Nelson Doubleday Jr.
June 19: Gley Eyherabide
June 19: James Salter
June 21: Veijo Meri
June 21: Arved Viirlaid
June 22nd: Gabriele Wohmann
June 23: Klaus Steinhaußen
June 25: Jamie Reid
Beginning July: Utta Danella
0July 1: Dieter P. Meier-Lenz
0July 2: David Read
0July 6: Wojciech Albiński
0July 6: Harald K. Hülsmann
0July 8: Ruth Kraft
0July 8: James Tate
July 10: Frank Möbus
July 11: Patricia Crone
July 11: Tom Piccirilli
July 12th: Chenjerai Hove
July 13: Campbell Smith
July 13: Martin Litchfield West
July 13: Gerhard Zwerenz
July 15: Hans Barlach
July 16: Jack Goody
July 17: Owen Chadwick
July 17: Egbert Koolman
July 17th: Anton Sterzl
July 18: Urve Karuks
July 19: Jörg Kaehler
July 21: EL Doctorow
July 21: Renate Rasp
July 23: Horst Neubert
July 23: Gerhard Nickel
July 23: Ulrich Zieger
July 24th: Corsino Fortes
July 24th: Ernst Trost
July 25: Klara Köttner-Benigni
July 25: Dieter Kühn
July 25th: Heinz Ritter
July 26th: Wolfgang Donsbach
July 26: Sebastiano Vassalli
July 28: David Faber
July 28th: Friedrich Wille
July 29th: Stephen Ellis
July 29th: Gert Haedecke
July 31: Jörg Bartel
July 31: Hans Schafgans
0August 1st: Bernard d'Espagnat
0August 3: Agawa Hiroyuki
0August 3: Carol Brown Janeway
0August 3: Robert Conquest
0August 4th: Siegfried Schnabl
0August 5th: Ana Hatherly
0August 6: Beth Brant
0August 7th: Carl Bianga
0August 9: Coyote
August 12: Jaakko Hintikka
August 14th: Jizchak Orpas
August 15: Rafael Chirbes
August 16: Alfred Gottwaldt
August 17th: Arsen Dedić
August 18: Mario Angelo
August 19: Egon Bahr
August 19: Hans-Peter Drögemüller
August 19: Antonio Larreta
August 19: Maria Voderholzer
August 20: Zuzana Brabcová
August 20: Christel Looks-Parts
August 21: Walter Hinck
August 22nd: Walter Höher
August 22nd: Peter Lundgreen
August 22: Saskia Richter
August 22nd: Trixini
August 23: Marliese Fuhrmann
August 24th: David Andrew Trotter
August 26th: Peter Kern
August 26th: Georg A. Weth
August 29: Wayne Dyer
August 29: Philipp Schmitz
August 30: Klaus-Joachim Lorenzen-Schmidt
August 30th: Oliver Sacks
August 31: Barbara Brecht-Schall
0September 4th: Jean Darling
0September 4th: Rainer Kirsch
0September 4th: Max Kruse
0September 4th: Warren Murphy
0September 4th: Joel Rufino dos Santos
0September 5th: Armin Reese
0September 6: Helmut Schranz
0September 8: Basil Johnston
0September 8: Andrew Kohut
0September 8th: Carlo Schäfer
0September 8th: Joost Zwagerman
0September 9: Annemarie Bostroem
0September 9: Fred Deux
0September 9: Reinhard Kiesler
0September 9: Jørgen Sonne
0September 9: Christof Stählin
September 10th: Kosmas Koroneos
September 10: Elisabeth Schulz-Semrau
September 11: Rudolf Radke
September 11th: Wolfgang Sieg
September 12: Walter Friedrich
September 12: Frank D. Gilroy
September 13: Jean-Christophe Ammann
September 13: Klaus Behnke
September 13: Stanley Hoffmann
September 13: Carl E. Schorske
September 15: Werner Krenkel
September 16: Dieter Breuers
September 16: Nicholas Henshall
September 17th: Nelo Risi
September 17th: Wolfgang Breeding
September 18: Anthony C. Winkler
September 19: Jackie Collins
September 20: Volker Kühn
September 20: Jack Larson
September 20: CK Williams
September 22: Rainer Castor
September 22nd: John McNeill
September 22nd: Hans-Joachim Seeler
September 23: Jean-Marie Drot
September 23: Yuri Elperin
September 24: Urs Herzog
September 24th: Ellis Kaut
September 24th: Brian Lecomber
September 24th: Beatrix Mesmer
September 25th: Hugo Gutiérrez Vega
September 27: Ingrid Galster
September 28: Frank Martinus Arion
September 28th: Arnim Juhre
September 29th: Hellmuth Karasek
September 30th: Hubert Gerlach
September 30th: Alfred Schickel
0October 1st: Gottfried Schatz
0October 2nd: Brian Friel
0October 3: Nene Adams
0October 4th: Eduardo Pavlovsky
0October 4th: Ulf G. Stuberger
0October 5th: Grace Lee Boggs
0October 5th: Henning Mankell
0October 5th: Niall Rudd
0October 6th: Robert Badger
0October 6: Charles Gillispie
0October 6th: Árpád Göncz
0October 8: Gion Deplazes
0October 8: Anni Kroll
0October 9: Eric Wright
0October 9: Zdravko Zupan
October 11: Robert Ellrodt
October 11th: Hermann Weiß
October 12: Hong Yun-suk
October 13: Rosalyn Baxandall
October 15: Rudolf Debiel
October 16: Vera Baker Williams
October 17th: Edwin Wolfram Dahl
October 18: Gamal al-Ghitani
October 20: Arno Gruen
October 20: Hermann O. Lauterbach
October 22nd: Çetin Altan
October 22: Jürgen Henkys
October 22: Heinrich Kraus
October 23: Helmut Clahsen
October 25: David Cesarani
October 25: Lisa Jardine
October 25: Hans Joachim Koppitz
October 26: Penelope Houston
October 26th: Karl Pisa
October 27: Ayerdhal
October 27: Alfons Frenzel
October 28: Erich Bärmeier
October 29th: Franz Thaler
October 31: Thomas Blatt
October 31: Dominique Paladilhe
October 31: Ryūzō Saki
0November 2nd: Antonio Dal Masetto
0November 2nd: Frank-Lothar Hossfeld
0November 2nd: Edward Soy
0November 3rd: Helmut Dubiel
0November 4th: Seymour Chatman
0November 4th: Dante Andrea Franzetti
0November 4th: René Girard
0November 4th: Karl-Heinz Jakobs
0November 5th: Hans Mommsen
0November 7th: Otto Hildebrandt
0November 7th: Thomas Ohlemacher
0November 9: Ernst Fuchs
November 10th: André Glucksmann
November 10: Theo Kars
November 10: Helmut Schmidt
November 10: Alix d'Unienville
November 11: Theodor J. Reisdorf
November 11th: Skou-Hansen days
November 11th: Reinhold Otto Werner
November 13: Fabian Stech
November 14th: Johann Legner
November 14th: Mariella Ourghi
November 18: Dieter Bongartz
November 18: Werner Morlang
November 18: Rudolf von Thadden
November 20: Adolf Eichenseer
November 20: Lex Jacoby
November 24th: Perry A. Chapdelaine
November 24th: Heinz Oberhummer
November 24th: Aurora Venturini
November 25th: Lennart Hellsing
November 25th: Klaus-Peter Hertzsch
November 26th: Noboru Karashima
November 27: Karin Friedrich
November 28th: Mark Behr
November 28: Luc Bondy
November 28: José Mendiluce Pereiro
November 29th: Christopher Middleton
November 30th: Walter Hilsbecher
November 30th: Fatima Mernissi
November 30th: Shigeru Mizuki
November 30th: Eldar Ryazanov
November 30th: Steve Shagan
0December 1: Manfred Blechschmidt
0December 1: Edwar al-Charrat
0December 2nd: Matthias Horndasch
0December 2nd: Heinz Kahlow
0December 4th: Raimund le Viseur
0December 5th: Claudia Lössl
0December 5: William McIlvanney
0December 6th: Gerhard Hoch
0December 9: Akiyuki Nosaka
0December 9th: Els Oksaar
December 10th: Roswitha Bitterlich
December 11th: Ernst Lewinger
December 11th: Erika Rauschning
December 11th: Gaston Salvatore
December 12: Federico B. Kirbus
December 13: Benedict Anderson
December 13: Dorothea Kuhn
December 15th: Tom Arden
December 15: Holda Schiller
December 16: Herbert Brödl
December 16: Peter Dickinson
December 16: Xosé Fernández Ferreiro
December 18: Sieghard Brandenburg
December 18: Raymond Tschumi
December 19: Karl Rennstich
December 22nd: Rolf Bossi
December 22nd: Alain Gandy
December 23: Jean-Marie Pelt
December 24th: Andreas Lixl
December 24th: Caterina Pascual Söderbaum
December 24th: Ines Rieder
December 24th: Christoph Schwandt
December 25th: Horst Friedrich
December 25th: George Clayton Johnson
December 27th: Aidan Higgins
December 27th: Sidney Mintz
December 28th: Chris Barnard
December 28th: Manfred Thiele
December 29th: Michael Heim
December 29th: Ruth Mohrmann
December 30th: Herman Bianchi
anonymous: Robert Carter
anonymous: Hans HF Henning

Literature prizes 2015

German literary prizes

Adelbert von Chamisso Prize : Sherko Fatah (main prize); Olga Grjasnowa and Martin Kordic (sponsorship awards)
Alfred Döblin Prize : Natascha Wodin
Alfred Kerr Prize for Literary Criticism: Manfred Papst
Annette von Droste Hülshoff Prize : Cornelia Funke
aspekte literature prize : Superposition by ♀ Kat Kaufmann
Bavarian Book Prize :
- Fiction: Rosenstengel by Angela Steidele
- Non-fiction book: Kafka. The early years of Reiner Stach
- Honorary award from the Bavarian Prime Minister: Cornelia Funke
Berlin Literature Prize : Olga Martynowa
Berlin Prize for Literary Criticism : Daniela Strigl
Bremen Literature Prize : Marcel Beyer for graphite (poems; main prize); Nadja Küchenmeister for Unter dem Wacholder (poems; sponsorship award)
Book prize of the Ravensburger Verlag Foundation : Vea Kaiser for Makarionissi or The Island of the Blessed
Carl Amery Literature Prize : Norbert Niemann
Carl Zuckmayer Medal : Bruno Ganz
Clemens Brentano Prize : Saskia Hennig von Lange for Back to Fire
Comic book award : Madgermanes by Birgit Weyhe
Crime Cologne Award : Bernhard Aichner for Totenfrau
Buddenbrookhaus debut award : Verena Boos for blood oranges
German Book Prize : The invention of the Red Army Fraction by a manic-depressive teenager in the summer of 1969 by Frank Witzel
German Audiobook Award - Best Non-Fiction Audiobook : Das Hohe Haus. One year in the Parliament of Roger Willemsen

German Youth Literature Award :

Picture book: Herr Schnuffels by David Wiesner (text, illustration), Paula Hagemeier (translation)

Children's book: The Dreamer by Pam Muñoz Ryan (text), Peter Sís (illustration), Anne Braun (translation)

Children's book: Snow giant by Susan Kreller (text)

Nonfiction: And then bursts the head of Christina Röckl (text, illustration)

Youth Jury Prize: Ultimately, the universe doesn't care about us by David Levithan (text), Martina Tichy (translation)

Special prize for the complete work: Sabine Friedrichson (illustrator)

German Science Fiction Prize :

Best novel: Alpha & Omega: Apocalypse for Beginners by Markus Orths
Best short story: Knox by Eva Strasser

Droste Prize : Judith Schalansky ; Sponsorship award: Teresa Präauer

Düsseldorf Literature Prize : Michael Köhlmeier

Eichendorff Literature Prize : Nico Bleutge

Elisabeth Langgässer Literature Prize : Peter Härtling

Ernst Bloch Prize : Axel Honneth (main prize) and Ann Cotten (sponsorship prize)

Ernst Johann Literature Prize : Wilhelm von Sternburg

Ernst Robert Curtius Prize for essay writing: Josef Isensee ; Sponsorship award: Philipp Felsch

Ernst Toller Prize : Katja Petrowskaja

Eugen Helmlé Translator Award : Hinrich Schmidt-Henkel

Friedrich Hebbel Prize : Christopher Ecker

Friedrich Hölderlin Prize of the City of Bad Homburg : Michael Kleeberg ; Teresa Präauer (sponsorship award)

Georg Büchner Prize : Rainald Goetz

Gerty Spies Literature Prize : Ursula Krechel

Grimmelshausen Prize : Robert Seethaler for a whole life (main prize); Verena Boos for blood oranges (sponsorship award)

Günter Eich Prize for radio plays: Ror Wolf

Gustav Heinemann Peace Prize : John Boyne for As Far As Close

Heinrich Böll Prize : Herta Müller

Heinrich Mann Prize : Adam Zagajewski

Heinrich Maria Ledig Rowohlt Prize for translators : Hainer Kober "for the transmission of numerous significant narrative factual texts"

Hermann Kesten Prize : Madjid Mohit ( Sujet Verlag )

Hotlist : Kookbooks for Risk and Idiocy. Polemics by Monika Rinck

Jane Scatcherd Prize for translators : Moshe Kahn for his translation of the novel Horcynus Orca by Stefano D'Arrigo

Jean Paul Prize : Gerhard Roth

Jeanette Schocken Prize : Gerhard Roth

Johann Heinrich Merck Prize : Gabriele Goettle

Johann Heinrich Voss Prize for Translation : Anne Birkenhauer

Joseph Breitbach Prize : Thomas Lehr

Julius Campe Prize : Denis Scheck

Kassel Literature Prize : Frank Schulz (main prize); Arno Camenisch (sponsorship award)

Klaus-Michael Kuehne Prize : The lucky by Kristine Bilkau

Kleist Prize : Monika Rinck

Kleist Award : Lukas Linder for The Man from Oklahoma

Klopstock Prize for New Literature: Ann Cotten (main prize); Mario Schneider (sponsorship award)

Kranichsteiner Literature Prize : Esther Kinsky , especially for Am Fluss

Kurt Tucholsky Prize for literary journalism: Jochanan Trilse-Finkelstein

Leonhard Frank Prize : Karsten Laske's child of terror
Lessing Prize of the Free State of Saxony : Carolin Emcke ; Sponsorship awards: Julius Fischer and Wolfram Höll
Favorite book of the year for the independent book trade : Altes Land by Dörte Hansen
Ruhr Literature Prize : Sascha Reh (main prize winner)
Lynx of the Year : The Dream of Olympia by Reinhard Kleist
Ludwig Börne Prize : Jürgen Kaube
Lüttjepütt Prize : Heidrun Schlieker
Mainz town clerk : Feridun Zaimoglu
Mara Cassens Prize : Blood Oranges by Verena Boos
Marieluise Fleißer Prize : Ulrich Peltzer
Marie Luise Kaschnitz Prize : Lutz Seiler
Melusine Huss Prize : Verbrecher Verlag for floor- to- ceiling windows by Anke Stelling

Mörike Prize of the City of Fellbach : Jan Wagner (main prize); Andre Rudolph (sponsorship award)

Mülheim Dramatist Prize : Ewald Palmetshofer for the unmarried one

Mülheimer KinderStückePrize : Carsten Brandau for Dreier is upside down

Young talent award for German-speaking authors : Stefanie Höfler for Mein Sommer mit Mucks

NDR Kultur Non-Fiction Book Prize : The Black Power: The »Islamic State« and the Strategists of Terror by Christoph Reuter

Nicolas Born Prize : Lukas Bärfuss (main prize); Daniela Krien (debut prize)

Oldenburg Children's and Young People's Book Prize : Dahlenberger by Florian Wacker

Paul Celan Prize : Moshe Kahn for his complete work as a translator

Paul Scheerbart Prize for translators : Rainer G. Schmidt for his translation of selected poems by Wallace Stevens

Peter Huchel Prize for Poetry: Everything Wants to Water Water wants to move away from Paulus Böhmer

Peter Weiss Prize 2014/15: Ulrich Peltzer

The political book : Thomas Piketty for Capital in the 21st Century

postpoetry.NRW (selection): Willihaben , Guy Helminger , Thomas Kade , Adrian Kasnitz

Leipzig Book Fair Prize :

Fiction: Rain barrel variations (poetry) by Jan Wagner
Nonfiction / essay writing: The new order on the old continent. A history of neoliberal Europe by Philipp Ther
Translation: Judas von Amos Oz in the translation by Mirjam Pressler

LiteraTour North Prize : Michael Köhlmeier

Prize of the SWR best list : Esther Kinsky with Am Fluss

Reiner Kunze Prize : Uwe Kolbe

Rheingau Literature Prize : Klaus Modick for a concert without a poet

Ricarda Huch Prize : Barbara Honigmann

Robert Gernhardt Prize :

Gila Lustiger for her novel project Die Entronnenen
Annika Scheffel for her novel project Here it is beautiful

Roswitha Prize : Gabriele Goettle

Schubart Literature Prize : Katja Petrowskaja (main prize); Karen Köhler (sponsorship award)

Swabian Literature Prize :

1st prize: Michael Lichtwarck-Aschoff for Uncle's Hands
2nd prize: Florian Wacker
3rd prize: Matthias Kehle
Special prize for young authors: Linda Achberger

Seraph (Best Fantastic Novel): The Pages of the World by Kai Meyer

Silver feather : different from Andreas Steinhöfel

Squidward Troll Prize : Carolin Callies for five senses & only one cutlery box (poetry)

Thomas Mann Prize : Lars Gustafsson

Toucan Prize : Gold in the streets of Lilian Loke

Translator Award from the City of Munich : Melanie Walz

Most unusual book title of the year : Giving up is not the solution. Except for packages from Patrick Salmen and quixots

Uwe Johnson Award : Mirna Funk for winter proximity

Vincent Price (selection):

Short story: Richard Lorenz for So Dark the Night

Roman: Jörg Kleudgen for Teatro Oscura

Anthology: Constantin Dupien (ed.) For defective copies - Haunted

International literary work: Clive Barker for The Scarlet Gospel
Walter Serner Prize : Jin Mao by Ulrike Syha and Osmans 19th problem by Rochus Stordeur
Werner Bergengruen Prize : Felicitas Hoppe
Wilhelm Raabe Literature Prize : Clemens J. Setz for The Hour Between Woman and Guitar
Wolfgang Weyrauch sponsorship award : Anja Kampmann and Özlem Özgül Dündar

International literary prizes

American Book Awards (selection):
- Marlon James : A Brief History of Seven Killings (German: A Brief History of Seven Murders )
- Naomi Klein : This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate
Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction :
- Fiction: All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
- Nonfiction: Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption by Bryan Stevenson
Anisfield-Wolf Book Award (selection):
- Fiction: A Brief History of Seven Killings (Eng .: A Brief History of Seven Murders ) by Marlon James
- Life's work: David Brion Davis
Anna Seghers Prize : Nino Harati vili
Anton Wildgans Prize : Erich Hackl
Aschehoug Literature Prize : Vigdis Hjorth
Astrid Lindgren Memorial Prize : PRAESA ( Project for the Study of Alternative Education in South Africa )
Astrid Lindgren Prize (Sweden) : Mårten Sandén
August price (selection):
- Fiction: Allt jag inte minns by Jonas Hassen Khemiri
- Technical book: Min europeiska familj. De senaste 54,000 aren by Karin Bojs

Bailey's Women's Prize for Fiction : How to Be Both by Ali Smith

Bancroft Prize (selection): Empire of Cotton: A Global History by Sven Beckert

Barry Ronge Fiction Prize : Damon Galgut for Arctic Summer

Basel Poetry Prize : José FA Oliver

Bellman Prize : Barbro Lindgren

BMF badge :

Adult literature: Allt jag inte minns by Jonas Hassen Khemiri

Children's and young adult literature: Ishavspirater by Frida Nilsson

Bokhandlerprisen : Bienes historie by Maja Lunde

Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize : Alexander McCall Smith for Fatty O'Leary's Dinner Party

Brage prices :

Fiction for adults: Lars Saabye Christensen for Magnet

Children's and young people's literature: Torun Lian for reserve princess Andersen

Non-fiction: Morten A. Strøksnes for Havboka. Other arts å catch en kjempehai fra en gummibåt on et stort hav gjennom fire arstider

Open class (2015 = crime story ): Kjell Ola Dahl for Kureren

Honorary award: Einar Økland

Wroclaw Poetry Prize Silesius :

Complete works: Jacek Podsiadło
Book of the year: Przedmiar robót by Marcin Sendecki
Debut of the year: Nauka o ptakach by Michał Książek

Bruno Kreisky Prize for the political book (selection):

Main prize: Axel Honneth for the idea of socialism
Complete journalistic work: Anton Pelinka

Cervantes Prize : Fernando del Paso

Cholmondeley Award (selection): Christopher Middleton

Compton Crook Award : Salvage by Alexandra Duncan

Constantijn Huygensprijs : Adriaan van Dis

Cordwainer Smith Rediscovery Award : Clark Ashton Smith

Costa Book Award :

Roman: A God in Ruins (dt. Glorious times ) by Kate Atkinson
First novel: The Loney by Andrew Michael Hurley
Children's book: The Lie Tree by Frances Hardinge (also Costa Book of the Year )
Poetry: 40 Sonnets by Don Paterson
Biography: The Invention of Nature: How Alexander Von Humboldt Revolutionized Our World by Andrea Wulf

Critics' Circle Theater Award / Best New Play : Hangmen by Martin McDonagh

David Cohen Prize : Tony Harrison

Dayton Literary Peace Prize (selection):

Fiction: The Great Glass Sea by Josh Weil
Fiction Runner-up: All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
Nonfiction: Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption by Bryan Stevenson
Holbrooke Award for Lifetime Achievement: Gloria Steinem

De Inktaap : La Superba by Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer

German-Italian translator award :

For the best translation: Moshe Kahn for the translation of Horcynus Orca by Stefano D'Arrigo
For life's work: Ragni Maria Gschwend

DR Novel Prize : Godhavn by Iben Mondrup

Duff Cooper Prize : Schubert's Winter Journey: Anatomy of an Obsession by Ian Bostridge

ECI Literature Prize : Het hout by Jeroen Brouwers

Erdal-Öz Literature Prize : Orhan Pamuk

Erich Fried Prize : Dorothee Elmiger

Ernst Jandl Prize for Poetry: Franz Josef Czernin

Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize : The World Before Us by Aislinn Hunter

Euregio Young People Literature Award : I called him tie by Milena Michiko Flašar

European Fairy Tale Prize : Kristin Wardetzky

Faroese literature prize for aesthetic literature: Carl Jóhan Jensen

FIL Prize : Enrique Vila-Matas

Forward Poetry Prize :

Best Collection: Citizen: An American Lyric by Claudia Rankine
Best Single Poem: The Mighty Hudson by Claire Harman

Franz Hessel Prize : Ulrich Peltzer for The Better Life and Michaël Ferrier for Mémoires d'outre-mer

Franz Kafka Literature Prize : Eduardo Mendoza

Frost Medal : Kamau Brathwaite

Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize : Spill Simmer Falter Wither by Sara Baume

Gert Jonke Prize : Julian Schutting

Geschwister-Scholl-Preis : Critique of black reason by Achille Mbembe

Goldsmiths Prize : Kevin Barry for Beatlebone

Governor General's Award for Fiction (French): Six degrés de liberté by Nicolas Dickner

Grand Prix C.-F. Ramuz : Catherine Safonoff

Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire (selection):

French-language novel: Christophe Lambert , Aucun homme n'est une île
Foreign language novel: Peter F. Hamilton , La Grande Route du Nord
French-language narration: Sylvie Lainé , L'Opéra de Shaya
Foreign-language narration: Paolo Bacigalupi , La Fille-flûte et autres fragments de futurs brisés
French language novel for young people: Jean-Luc Marcastel , La Seconde vie de d'Artagnan
Foreign language youth novel: Ransom Riggs , Miss Peregrine et les enfants particuliers

Grand Prix de Poésie : Philippe Beck

Grand Prix du Roman : Les Prépondérants by Hédi Kaddour and 2084: la fin du monde by Boualem Sansal

Grand Prix littéraire de l'Afrique noire : Les Maquisards by Hemley Boum

Grand prix de littérature policière (National): Derrière les panneaux il ya des hommes by Joseph Incardona

Griffin Poetry Prize :

Canadian: Blue Sonoma by Jane Munro
International: The Stairwell by Michael Longley

The Big Book - 1st place: Suleika opens the eyes of Gusel Jachina

Grand Prix of Samfundet De Nio : Sara Stridsberg

HC Artmann scholarship : Boris Chersonskij

Hawthornden Prize : Nora Webster from Colm Tóibín

Hohenems Literature Prize : The First Morning Festival by Que Du Luu

Independent Foreign Fiction Prize : The End of Days (dt. All day evening by) Jenny Erpenbeck

Ingeborg Bachmann Prize : Nora Gomringer : Research

International Friedrich Nietzsche Prize : Martin Walser for his life's work

International Literature Prize - House of World Cultures : Judas von Amos Oz in a translation by Mirjam Pressler

International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award : Harvest by Jim Crace

International Prize for Arabic Fiction : The Italian by Shukri Mabkhout

Irish Book Awards (selection):

Novel: The Green Road by Anne Enright
Short Story: A Slanting of the Sun by Donal Ryan
Children's book: Imaginary Fred by Eoin Colfer and Oliver Jeffers
International Recognition Award: Bill Bryson
Lifetime work: JP Donleavy

Italo Svevo Prize : Nina Jäckle

James Krüss Prize for International Children's and Youth Literature : Frank Cottrell Boyce (author) and Salah Naoura (translator)

James Tait Black Memorial Prize (Drama): Tomorrow Come Today by Gordon Dahlquist

Jan Campert Prize : Idylls by Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer

Jerusalem Prize : Ismail Kadare

Kerry Group Irish Fiction Award : Eoin McNamee for Blue Is the Night

Kościelski Prize : Szczepan Twardoch

Crime Time leaderboard : sinking of Merle Kröger

Leo Perutz Prize : Wiener Totenlieder by Theresa Prammer

LiBeraturpreis : Madeleine Thien for fleeting souls

Libris Literature Prize : Ik kom terug by Adriaan van Dis

Lionel Gelber Prize : The Last Empire: The Final Days of the Soviet Union by Serhii Plokhy

Alpha Literature Prize : Karin Peschka for Watschenmann

European Union Literature Prize (selection):

Ireland: The Spinning Heart by Donal Ryan
Norway: Unnskyld by Ida Hegazi Høyer
Austria: I must have run across soft grass once by Carolina Schutti
Poland: Magik by Magdalena Parys
Sweden: Beckomberga - Ode till min familj by Sara Stridsberg

Nordic Council Literature Prize : Jon Fosse for a trilogy of novels

Literature Prize of the City of Vienna : Elisabeth Reichart

Los Angeles Times Book Prize , Science and Technology category: The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World by Andrea Wulf

Man Booker Prize for Fiction : A Brief History of Seven Killings (dt .: A Short History of seven murders ) of Marlon James

Man Booker International Prize : László Krasznahorkai

Manès Sperber Prize : Ilma Rakusa

Mao Dun Literature Prize (selection): Wang Meng for Scenery on this Side

Nadal Literature Prize : José C. Vales for Cabaret Biarritz

National Book Awards :

Prose: Adam Johnson with Fortune Smiles
Non-fiction book: Ta-Nehisi Coates with Between the World and Me (German: Between me and the world )
Poetry: ♀ Robin Coste Lewis with Voyage of the Sable Venus
Youth book: Neal Shusterman with Challenger Deep
Literary life's work: Don DeLillo
Special merits (life's work): James Patterson

National Book Critics Circle Award (novel): The Sellout by Paul Beatty

Nelly Sachs Prize : Marie NDiaye

Nike : Księgi Jakubowe by Olga Tokarczuk

Nobel Prize in Literature : Svetlana Alexievich

Nordic Prize of the Swedish Academy : Thomas Bredsdorff

Open Mike : Jessica Lind , Theresia Töglhofer, Andra Schwarz; taz audience award: Philip Krömer for one for the other

Orwell Award : Anthony Cody for The Educator and the Oligarch

Orwell Prize , Book Category: Private Island: Why Britain Now Belongs to Someone Else by James Meek

Austrian Art Prize for Literature : Evelyn Schlag

Austrian State Prize for European Literature : Mircea Cărtărescu

Austrian State Prize for Literary Criticism : Brigitte Schwens-Harrant

Austrian State Prize for Literary Translation (... into German): Michaela Prinzinger

Outstanding Artist Award for Literature (Austria): Christoph W. Bauer

Park Kyung ni Literature Prize : Amos Oz

PC Hooft Prize : Anneke Brassinga for her lyrical work

PEN / Faulkner Award : Atticus Lish for Preparation for the Next Life

Poznan Literature Awards :

Adam Mickiewicz Prize: Zbigniew Kruszyński for curator
Stanisław Barańczak Grant: Kira Pietrek

Premio Alfaguara de Novela : Contigo en la distancia by Carla Guelfenbein

Prémio Camões : Hélia Correia

Premio Campiello : L'ultimo arrivato by Marco Balzano

Gregor von Rezzori Award (Best Foreign Work): The Day of Oprichnik by Vladimir Sorokin

Premio Iberoamericano de Narrativa Manuel Rojas : Margo Glantz

Prêmio Machado de Assis : Rubem Fonseca

Premio Mondello (Premio Autore Straniero): Emmanuel Carrère

Premio Planeta : Hombres desnudos by Alicia Giménez Bartlett

Premio Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz : El país del diablo by Perla Suez

Premio Strega : La ferocia by Nicola Lagioia

Premio Viareggio (“Fiction” category): Antonio Scurati for Il tempo migliore della nostra vita

Prijs der Nederlandse Letteren : Remco Campert

Princess of Asturias Prize for Literature : Leonardo Padura

Prix Décembre : Un amour impossible by Christine Angot

Prix Femina : La Cache by Christophe Boltanski

Prix Femina Essai : Claude Lévi-Strauss by Emmanuelle Loyer

Prix Femina Étranger : La Couleur de l'eau (in the orig. Thirst ) by Kerry Hudson

Prix Goncourt (novel) : Boussole by Mathias Énard

Prix Goncourt (debut novel) : Meursault, contre-enquête by Kamel Daoud

Prix Goncourt des lycéens : D'après une histoire vraie by Delphine de Vigan

Prix Guillaume Apollinaire : Liliane Wouters for Derniers feux sur terre as well as for her complete works

Prix Hommage visionnaire : Esther Rochon

Prix Interallié : La Septième Fonction du langage by Laurent Binet

Prix littéraire de l'armée de Terre - Erwan Bergot : Berezina by Sylvain Tesson

Prix du livre européen :

Essay category: Un messager pour l'Europe by Robert Menasse
Category novel: Vera by Jean-Pierre Orban

Prix Mallarmé : Werner Lambersy for La Perte du temps

Prix de La Mamounia : Leïla Slimani

Prix Médicis : Titus n'aimait pas Bérénice by Nathalie Azoulai

Prix Médicis essai : Sauve qui peut la vie by Nicole Lapierre

Prix Médicis étranger : Encore (in the original Daha ) by Hakan Günday

Prix Méditerranée : Valérie Zenatti for Jacob, Jacob

Prix Méditerranée Étranger : Milena Agus and Luciana Castellina for Prends garde

Prix du Meilleur livre étranger :

Essay: Atlas d'un homme inquiet by Christoph Ransmayr
Roman: La Zone d'intérêt by Martin Amis

Prix mondial Cino Del Duca : Thomas W. Gaehtgens

Prix Mystère de la critique :

National: Aux animaux la guerre by Nicolas Mathieu
International: 911 by Shannon Burke

Prix du polar européen : The truth and other lies by Sascha Arango

Prix du Premier roman étranger (selection): L'Ange de l'oubli (Eng. Angel of Oblivion ) by Maja Haderlap

Prix Renaudot : D'après une histoire vraie by Delphine de Vigan

Pulitzer Prize :

Fiction : All the Light We Can not See ( All light that we can not see ) by Anthony Doerr
Drama : Between Riverside and Crazy by Stephen Adly Guirgis
Poetry : Digest by Gregory Pardlo
Biography / Autobiography : The Pope and Mussolini: The Secret History of Pius XI and the Rise of Fascism in Europe by David I. Kertzer
Non-fiction book : The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History ( The sixth dying. How man writes natural history ) by Elizabeth Kolbert

Rauris Literature Prize : We fished rockets from Karen Köhler

Rea Award for the Short Story : Andrea Barrett

Regina Medal : Judy Blume

Retzhofer Dramapreis : Özlem Özgül Dündar for Jardin d'Istanbul and Miroslava Svolikova for the squatting

Riksmålsforbundets litteraturpris : Terje Emberland for Da fascismen kom til Norge

Riverton Prize : Kureren by Kjell Ola Dahl

Novel prize of the P2 audience (Norway): De urolige by Linn Ullmann

Samuel Johnson Prize : Neurotribes: The Legacy of Autism and How to Think Smarter About People Who Think Differently by Steve Silberman

Swiss Book Prize : One in the other by Monique Schwitter

Swiss literary prizes (selection):

Sleepers by Dorothee Elmiger
On the way to Okhotsk by Eleonore Frey
The autumn in which I learned to play the piano from Hanna Johansen
Unger üs. Family album of Guy Krneta
“Swiss Grand Prix Literature”: Adolf Muschg for his complete works

Solothurn Literature Prize : Thomas Hettche

Somerset Maugham Award (selection): Ben Brooks for Lolito

Theo Thijssenprijs : Martha Heesen

Theodor Kramer Prize : Hazel Rosenstrauch

Tucholsky Prize (Sweden) : Arkadi Babtschenko

Veza Canetti Prize of the City of Vienna : Sabine Gruber

Walter Scott Prize : The Ten Thousand Things by John Spurling

William Dean Howells Medal : Middle C by William Gass

Windham – Campbell Literature Prize (selection):

Fiction: Teju Cole ; Helon Habila ; Ivan Vladislavić
Non-fiction: Geoff Dyer ; Edmund de Waal

Wingate Literary Prize :

Fiction: Michel Laub for Diary of the Fall (Eng .: diary of a fall )
Non-fiction: Thomas Harding for Hanns and Rudolf : The German Jew and the Hunt for the Kommandant of Auschwitz

Zug translator grant : Ulrich Blumenbach for the translation of the novel Witz by Joshua Cohen

Recognition prizes: Steffen Popp and Andreas Tretner

Related awards and honors

Albertus Magnus Professorship : Bruno Latour

Antiquarian Prize : Lothar Müller , among others for his book White Magic. The era of paper

Asahi Prize (selection): Kaneko Tōta

Balzan Prize (selection): Hans Belting ; Joel Mokyr

Library of the year : Cologne City Library

Brothers Grimm Poetics Professorship : Paul Maar

Buchlust - Audience Award: Verlagshaus Jacoby & Stuart

German Language Prize : Katharina Raabe

Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Play: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Simon Stephens (based on the novel of the same name by Mark Haddon )