Literature year 2019
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Overview of the literary
years Further events
Events
- Dryas Verlag in Frankfurt January 1st: Bedey Media takes over
- Random House takes over Anaconda Verlag January 1st:
- January 10th: While keeping both names, the bookstore chains Mayersche and Thalia plan to merge, creating a company with around 350 bookstores and thus the largest retail bookshop in Europe.
- February 14th: The largest German bar retailer Koch, Neff and Volckmar files for bankruptcy .
- February 15: The 3,000th volume with the title “Mythos Earth” appears in the Perry Rhodan science fiction series .
- March 21: World Poetry Day
- 21.-24. March: Leipzig Book Fair (guest country: Czech Republic )
- Duncker & Humblot takes over Deutsches Betriebswirte-Verlag April 1:
- De Gruyter takes over the Islamic studies Klaus Schwarz Verlag April 1:
- April 26: The Federal Cartel Office approves the takeover of Langenscheidt- Verlag by Klett / Pons .
- International Children's Book Day April 2nd:
- April 23: World Book and Copyright Day
- Gruner + Jahr's majority stake in the special publisher Motor Presse Stuttgart is taken over by Peter-Paul Pietsch and Patricia Scholten, descendants of the founder Paul Pietsch . June 3:
- Düsseldorf Literature Days 4th - 17th June: 8th
- Elliott Advisors , the British subsidiary of the American hedge fund Elliott Management Corporation, takes over Barnes & Noble , the largest American bookstore chain, following the acquisition of the largest British bookseller Waterstones in May 2018 . June 7:
- 14.-20. June: 20th poetry festival berlin
- 19 June: Karin Schmidt-Friedrichs is the head of the Association of German Book Trade chosen
- June 26: Logistics company Zeitfracht takes over the insolvent bar assortment retailer Koch, Neff and Volckmar
- 26.-30. June: Days of German-Language Literature with awarding of the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize in Klagenfurt
- June 30: Literature on the park bench , literature festival with open-air readings in the Tiergarten in Berlin
- July 31: The draft of the Annual Tax Act provides for a reduced VAT for e-books and similar publications in Germany.
- August 22nd: The DEAL project of the German Science Alliance and the science publisher Springer Nature agree the framework for the world's largest open access transformation agreement .
- 8-13 October: 3rd international literature festival lit.Ruhr
- Marcel Proust . October 9: Editions de Fallois published nine previously unpublished short stories by
- October 10: The 2019 Nobel Prize for Literature goes to Peter Handke .
- 16. – 20. October: Frankfurt Book Fair (guest country: Norway )
- October 18: First award of the German Publishing Prize, endowed with a total of one million euros
- October 24: Library Day in Germany and South Tyrol
- 2-9 November: Independent Bookstore Week
- 5th-9th November: 13th Hamburg Crime Festival
- November 23rd and 24th: 6th BuchBerlin
- 21.-24. November: European Literature Days in Krems-Stein an der Donau
Anniversaries (selection)
people
Birthdays
- 500th birthday
exact date of birth unknown: Aşık Çelebi
- 400th birthday
- Tobias Clausnitzer February 5th:
- January 10: Johann Peter Titz
- January 21: Anders Christensen Bording
- Cyrano de Bergerac March 6:
- April 22nd: Johann Wilhelm von Stubenberg
- September 12: Giacomo Lubrano
- Gédéon Tallemant des Réaux October 2nd:
- Philipp von Zesen October 8th:
- December 28th: Antoine Furetière
exact date of birth unknown: Bedřich Bridel
- 350th birthday
- Maria Magdalena Böhmer January 1st:
- Kada no Azumamaro February 3:
- Johann Kless March 2nd:
- Albert Joseph Conlin March 8:
- September 13: Johann Christopher Jauch
- Johann Balthasar Beyschlag November 4th:
- 300th birthday
- January 17th: Johann Elias Schlegel , Jean-Joseph Vadé
- Johann Wilhelm Ludwig Gleim April 2:
- September 27: Abraham Gotthelf Kästner
- October 13: Marco Coltellini
exact date of birth unknown: Wilhelm Adolf Paulli , Takebe Ayatari
- 250th birthday
- January 12th: August Gottlob Eberhard
- January 20: Arnoldine Wolf
- January 26: Christian Ludwig Neuffer
- Johann Ernst Wagner February 2:
- February 12: Friedrich Rochlitz
- February 19: Wilhelmine Karoline von Wobeser
- February 24th: Auguste Pattberg
- April 16: Asmussen railway station
- June 24th: August Ferdinand Bernhardi
- August 20: Karl Reinhard
- Caroline Pichler September 7:
- Ivan Kotlyarevskyi September 9:
- September 14: Alexander von Humboldt
- October 11th: Amalie von Gehren
- October 29th: Georg von Hofmann
- November 19: Elise Bürger
- December 24th: Franz Alexander von Kleist
- December 26th: Ernst Moritz Arndt
- 200th birthday
- January 1: Arthur Hugh Clough
- Otto Ruppius February 1:
- Wilhelm Jordan February 8:
- February 17th: Max Schneckenburger
- Edwin Percy Whipple March 8:
- April 22nd: Friedrich von Bodenstedt
- April 24th: Klaus Groth
- May 17: Julia Ward Howe
- May 18: Julius Hopp
- May 31: Walt Whitman
- Adolf Seubert (officer) June 9:
- June 17th: Albert Dulk
- June 26th: Juana Manso de Noronha
- July 11th: Julius von Wickede
- July 19: Gottfried Keller , Ernst Rommel (editor)
- July 26th: Manuel María Caballero
- Herman Melville August 1:
- August 12: George Ezekiel
- August 20: Hermann Rollett
- August 24th: Wilhelm Molitor
- September 18: Maximilian Leopold Moltke
- September 21: Karl Enslin
- Ann Eliza Smith October 7th:
- October 15: Edmund Hoefer
- October 26th: Meïr Aron Goldschmidt
- November 19: Auguste Vacquerie
- November 22nd: George Eliot
- November 27th: Friedrich Eggers
- December 18: Yakov Petrovich Polonsky
- December 24th: Ludwig Foglár
- December 30th: Theodor Fontane
- 150th birthday
- Lars Hansen January 8:
- January 15: Stanisław Wyspiański
- January 20: Ulrich Lörcher
- January 28: Kurt Aram
- Johann Carl Kaiserling February 3:
- Jindřich Šimon Baar February 7th:
- February 11: Else Lasker-Schüler
- February 14th: Leo Feld
- February 21: Myriam Harry
- March 25th: Emil Sonnemann
- March 26th: David Jakowlewitsch Aizman
- March 29th: Iso Velikanović
- Karl Wagenfeld April 5:
- Levon Schant April 6:
- April 23: Christine Koch
- April 25: Alois Theodor Sonnleitner
- April 26: Gustav Weng
- Minna Wettstein-Adelt May 1st:
- Hans Pfitzner May 5th:
- May 11: Heinrich Loewe
- May 19: Karl Adolph
- May 28: Paul Grabein
- Johanna von Destouches June 3:
- Siegfried Wagner June 6:
- June 22nd: Margarete Paulick
- June 26th: Martin Andersen Nexø
- Hjalmar Söderberg July 2nd:
- July 29th: Booth Tarkington
- August 10: Laurence Binyon
- August 14: Ludwig Kessing
- August 21: William Henry Ogilvie
- August 22: Arthur Holitscher
- Felix Salten September 6th:
- Kinoshita Naoe September 8th:
- September 11th: Caterina Albert i Paradís
- September 17th: Karl Wolfskehl
- September 18: Franz-Joseph Ahles
- September 23: Otfrid von Hanstein
- September 27: Hans Benzmann
- September 30th: Peter Baum
- Robert Kraft October 3:
- Alice Gurschner October 8:
- October 13: Felix Poppenberg
- October 20: Bernhard Köster
- Karl Bienenstein November 1st:
- November 10th: Gustav Trockenbrodt
- November 13: Helene Stocker
- November 15: Charlotte Mew
- November 20: Sinaida Hippius
- November 22nd: André Gide
- November 25: Ben B. Lindsey
- George Sterling December 1:
- Laurenz Kiesgen December 3:
- Rudolf Herzog December 6th:
- December 22nd: Edwin Arlington Robinson
- 100th birthday
- Daniil Alexandrowitsch Granin , Peter Kien , JD Salinger January 1:
- Charles Willeford January 2:
- Robert Duncan January 7th:
- Hans Lebert January 9:
- January 17th: Elsa Gress
- January 19: Joan Brossa
- January 24th: Juan Eduardo Zúñiga
- January 27: Jiřina Hauková
- January 28th: Hans von Oettingen
- January 29: NF Simpson
- Eugen Stadelmann February 1:
- Krystyna Berwińska February 4th:
- February 12th: Hans Siebe
- February 26: Kuroda Saburō
- February 28: Mori Sumio
- Franz Fassbind March 7th:
- Mavor Moore , Mizukami Tsutomu March 8:
- Ernst Nägeli March 9:
- March 19: Peter Abrahams
- March 24: Lawrence Ferlinghetti
- March 29: Robert Lowry
- March 30th: Urs Oberlin
- April 15: Fernando Namora
- April 17: J. Rodolfo Wilcock
- April 18: Gretl Keren Fischer
- April 23: Silja Walter
- April 26: Luděk Pešek
- May 14th: Maarten Vrolijk
- May 16: Richard Mason
- May 20: Ronald Chetwynd-Hayes , Gustaw Herling-Grudziński
- May 25: Raymond Smullyan
- Roger Borniche June 7th:
- Constantine Fitzgibbon June 8:
- June 15: Arnold Künzli
- June 19: Bogomil Rainow
- June 26: Peter Rawlinson
- Hans Bender July 1:
- Jean Craighead George July 2:
- Dimitar Peew July 7th:
- July 10: Albert Caraco
- July 15: Iris Murdoch , Alfonsas Nyka-Niliūnas
- July 19: Robert Pinget , Miltos Sachtouris
- July 21: Nuto Revelli
- July 31: Primo Levi
- Stanley Middleton August 1st:
- Michel Déon August 4th:
- August 15: Benedict Kiely
- August 19: Alfred Schrick
- August 24th: Drs. P
- August 30: Jiří Orten
- August 31: Eric Koch , Amrita Pritam
- Edwin Honey September 3:
- Hanns Georg Heintschel-Heinegg September 5:
- Michael Guttenbrunner September 7th:
- September 13: George Weidenfeld
- September 16: Ku Sang
- September 17th: Jean Venturini
- September 19: Katō Shūichi
- September 21: Aya Zikken
- September 23: Kaneko Tōta
- September 26: Matilde Camus
- Edward Waves October 2nd:
- John Boyd , Eduardas Mieželaitis October 3:
- Charles Bertin October 5:
- Sawaki Kin'ichi , Herbert Mühlstädt October 6:
- October 10: Rolf Schroers
- October 15: Stefano D'Arrigo , EC Tubb
- October 22nd: Doris Lessing
- October 26th: Ashraf Pahlavi
- October 31: Christian Ferber
- Květa Legátová , Joachim Seyppel November 3:
- Liesel Bachem Sayre November 7th:
- November 15: Wolfgang Lohmeyer
- November 26th: Frederik Pohl
- November 27: Alberto Girri , Kim Tal-su
- November 30th: Siegfried Einstein
- December 11: Robert W. Krepps , Joe Masteroff
- December 17th: Ezekiel Mphahlele
- December 21: Ivan Blatný , Larry Eisenberg , Gerd Semmer
- December 23: Poul Ørum
- December 24th: Matthias Werner Kruse , Gisela Seelhorst
exact date of birth unknown: Heinz Otto Quilitzsch
Days of death
- 500th anniversary of death
exact date of death unknown: Antoni Canals
- 400th anniversary of death
- 350th anniversary of death
- April 23: Matthäus Röseler
- June 22nd: Melchior Acontius
- Bernardo Tasso September 5:
- Guillaume Guéroult October 7th:
- November 29th: António Ferreira
- December 10: Paul Eber
exact date of death unknown: Mikołaj Rej
- 300th anniversary of death
- February 12: Pierre de Larivey
- March 23: Georg Gotthart
- May 14th: Agostinho da Cruz
- Valentin Leucht July 1st:
- October 14: Samuel Daniel
- December 31: Simon Sten
- 250th anniversary of death
- March 10: John Denham (poet)
- Johann Michael Moscherosch April 4:
- Lars Wivallius April 5th:
- Joachim Rachel May 3:
- May 14th: Denis de Sallo
- Esteban Manuel de Villegas September 3:
- October 28th: Agustín Moreto
- December 29th: Marin Cureau de la Chambre
exact date of death unknown: Jean Nicolas de Parival
- 200th anniversary of death
- Gerhard Anton von Halem January 4th:
- January 12th: Benedigte Naubert
- February 25: Manuel do Nascimento
- March 22nd: Christian Gottlob von Voigt
- March 23: August von Kotzebue
- Marcello Bernardini April 2nd:
- April 10: Matthäus Braun
- May 10: Johann Wenzel Hann
- July 29th: Karl Friedrich Gottlob Wetzel
- August 15: Cornelius Hermann von Ayrenhoff
- October 18: Franz Xaver Gewey
- October 21: Jón Þorláksson
- Friedrich Leopold zu Stolberg-Stolberg December 5th:
- December 14th: Amalie von Gehren
- 150th anniversary of death
- January 26th: Georg Fein
- January 30th: William Carleton
- February 15: Mirza Ghalib
- February 28: Alphonse de Lamartine
- March 28: Jules Joseph Gabriel
- Kristján Jónsson April 9:
- April 24th: Charles Varin
- April 26: Franz Michael Felder
- June 23: Friedrich Hopp
- July 18: Louis Bouilhet
- Thomas Medwin August 2nd:
- September 23: Heinrich Josef König
- September 27: Karl Grunert (actor)
- October 18: Simon Jenko
- October 29th: Antony Deschamps
- Viktor Sabila December 2nd:
exact date of death unknown: Arsénio Pompílio Pompeu de Carpo , Henriette von Schorn
- 100th anniversary of death
- Peter Altenberg January 8:
- January 15: Rosa Luxemburg
- January 27th: Endre Ady
- January 31: Paul Lindau
- Irmgard Höfer from Feldsturm February 1st:
- Enrico Golisciani February 6:
- February 14th: Viktor Gomulicki
- February 20: Murayama Kaita
- February 21: Kurt Eisner
- Paul Jaromar Wendt March 1st:
- Hedwig Kiesekamp March 2nd:
- March 17th: Kenyon Cox
- March 21: Karl Stamm
- March 25: Mahmudxoʻja Behbudiy
- March 28th: Heinrich Vollrat Schumacher
- April 29th: Leopold Adler
- Gustav Landauer May 2nd:
- May 10: Ferdinando Fontana
- May 24th: Amado Nervo
- May 28th: Eduard Tempeltey
- John Fox junior July 8:
- July 31: Joseph Faust
- Ruggero Leoncavallo August 9:
- August 10: Hermann Wette
- August 18: Ernst Rauscher von Stainberg
- September 11th: Géza Csáth
- September 12: Leonid Nikolajewitsch Andrejew
- September 17th: August Wilhelm Otto Niemann
- September 29th: Hans Kaltneker
- October 11: Karl Gjellerup
- October 24th: Edgar Steiger
- October 30: Ella Wheeler Wilcox
- Sofja Andreevna Tolstaya November 4th:
- November 19: Alexandru Vlahuță
- December 16: Luigi Illica
- 50th anniversary of death
- Franz Theodor Csokor , Waguih Ghali , Alexandros Matsas January 5th:
- František Kubka January 7th:
- Day Keene January 9:
- January 21: Giovanni Comisso
- January 28: Heinrich Micko
- Alma Rogge February 7th:
- February 13: Kazimierz Wierzyński
- March 10: Theodor Meidl
- March 11: Arthur K. Barnes , John Wyndham
- March 22nd: Gerhard Fritsch
- March 26: John Kennedy Toole , B. Traven , Günther Weisenborn
- March 27: Karel Josef Beneš
- Georg Hoprich April 9:
- April 10: Claus Back
- April 26th: August Scholtis
- Oskar Maurus Fontana May 4th:
- Hedwig Anneler May 8:
- May 25th: Hans Mühlestein
- May 29th: Wilhelm von Scholz
- May 30th: Henry Wade
- Viktor Storck June 3:
- Josefa Berens-Totenohl , Kaspar Freuler June 6th:
- Eberhard Meckel June 7th:
- June 14th: Marek Hłasko
- June 22nd: Mirko Jelusich
- June 23: Hans Siemsen
- Ernst Bergfeld July 5th:
- July 19: Stratis Myrivilis
- July 25: Witold Gombrowicz
- July 31: Ruth Margarete Roellig
- August 13: William Becher
- August 14: Leonard Sidney Woolf
- August 19: Nakayama Gishu
- August 25: Marcel Allain
- August 27: Erika Mann
- August 28: Emilio Frugoni
- August 30: Wolf Justin Hartmann
- Alexandra David-Néel September 8:
- Jalal Āl-e Ahmad September 9th:
- September 12: Paul Habraschka
- September 14: Maximilian Rosenberg
- September 16: Elsa Margot Hinzelmann
- September 20: Werner write
- Joseph Constant October 3:
- Felix Moeschlin , Jerzy Stempowski October 4th:
- Sally Grosshut , Nikolaus Hein October 7th:
- October 17; Horst Lommer
- October 21: Jack Kerouac
- October 22nd: Alfons of Czibulka
- October 24th: Loys Masson
- October 27: Giorgio Scerbanenco
- October 30: Uwe Greßmann
- Valentine Ackland November 9:
- November 10: Tadeusz Peiper
- November 11th: Jan Petersen
- November 15th: Ignacio Aldecoa
- November 21: Ishida Hakyō
- November 24th: Paul Capon
- José María Arguedas December 2nd:
- Maria Kasterska December 7th:
- December 11th: Gostan Zarian
- December 13th: Shishi Bunroku
- December 17th: Alfred Günther
- December 22nd: José Régio
- December 26th: Louise de Vilmorin
- December 29th: William Quindt
- December 30th: Yuki Shigeko
- December 31: Theodor Reik
Works
(OA = original edition; dEA = German-language first edition)
1669
- Tartuffe by Molière 5th February: World premiere of the third and final version of
- Monsieur de Pourceaugnac by Molière (music: Jean-Baptiste Lully ) October 6: World premiere of the ballet comedy
- December 13th: First performance of the tragedy Britannicus by Racine
1719
1769
- Goethe writes the comedy The Accomplices .
- From Lessing Vol appears. 2 of the Hamburg Dramaturgy and the pamphlet How formed the old death .
- From Voltaire the unperformed tragedies appear Les Guèbres ou la tolérance and (with the indication "1770") Sophonisbe in print.
1819
- The West-Eastern Divan by Goethe appears .
1869
- By Fyodor Dostoevsky appears to February 1869 The Idiot in the journal The Russian Messenger .
- L'Éducation sentimentale is published by Gustave Flaubert .
- The final version of War and Peace is published by Lev Tolstoy .
- By Ivan Turgenev the fantastic short story created a strange story .
- The Innocents Abroad, or The New Pilgrims' Progress is published by Mark Twain .
1919
- January 23: First performance of the play 1913 by Carl Sternheim (after a performance ban in 1915)
- Bertolt Brecht wrote, among other things, The Wedding and Drums in the Night .
- Alfred Döblin finishes the historical novel Wallenstein .
- The short story Treasures of the Deep is published by Hans Dominik .
- Of Sigmund Freud , the essay appears the uncanny .
- Demian appears from "Emil Sinclair" (d. I. Hermann Hesse ) . The story of a youth .
- Hermann Hesse wrote Klingsor's last summer as well as Klein and Wagner .
- By Franz Kafka , the story appears in the penal colony .
- By Else Lasker-Schüler of the epistolary novel seems Malik and published in 1909 drama The Wupper will be premiered in Berlin.
- By Thomas Mann appears master and dog and Song of the Child .
- By Arthur Schnitzler the comedy appears The sisters or Casanova in Spa (UA 1920).
- Kurt Schwitters wrote and published the poem To Anna Blume .
- La Symphonie pastorale is published by André Gide .
- By Marcel Proust appears À l'ombre des jeunes filles en fleurs .
- Ten Days That Shook the World is published by John Reed (about the October Revolution 1917).
1969
- By Alfred Andersch appear high latitudes or messages from the border .
- By Thomas Bernhard publications include the stories Watten and the Kulterer and the tree line at (a book edition).
- The radio play trespassing is published by Heinrich Böll .
- From Franz Josef Degenhardt the book to appear Do not play with the Pariah .
- By Friedrich Dürrenmatt the comedy is Play Strindberg premiered.
- By Peter Handke appears his poem The preparation of the 1. FC Nuremberg from 27.01.1968 .
- News from the robber Hotzenplotz is published by Otfried Preußler .
- The 35 second scene Breath by Samuel Beckett is premiered.
- Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (dEA) is published by Roald Dahl .
- As part of the Frankfurt edition , a new translation of the Dubliners by James Joyce will appear as Dubliner .
- The short story collection Nacht und Schimmel (OA) is published by Stanisław Lem .
- The Lord of the Rings by JRR Tolkien appears for the first time (incomplete) in German in 1969/70 .
- On Certainty by Ludwig Wittgenstein is published posthumously .
More anniversaries
- February 15: 50 years of the Association of German Writers (actual date of foundation was June 8, 1969)
Died in 2019
Well known authors
- January 16: Mirjam Pressler
- January 17th: Horst Stern
- Leonie Ossowski February 4th:
- Rosamunde Pilcher February 6:
- Tomi Ungerer February 9:
- April 14th: Gene Wolfe
- April 22nd: Dieter Forte
- May 15: Wiglaf Droste
- May 22: Judith Kerr
- July 22nd: Peter Hamm
- July 22nd: Brigitte Kronauer
- Toni Morrison August 5th:
- September 21: Günter Kunert
Other authors
- January
- Nicholas Horsfall January 1:
- Wilhelm Gössmann January 2:
- Lutz Lehmann January 2nd:
- Karl Sewart January 2:
- Richard Toellner January 2nd:
- Christine de Rivoyre January 3:
- Norman Birnbaum January 4th:
- John Burningham January 4th:
- Karl Heinz Ritschel January 5th:
- Helmut Berding January 7th:
- January 12th: Batton Lash
- January 13: Francine du Plessix Gray
- January 14th: Wolfgang Hütt
- January 17th: Mary Oliver
- January 17th: Sam Savage
- January 18: Wolfgang Frühwald
- January 18: Bernhard Böschenstein
- January 19: Barthélémy Kotchy
- January 19: Hans Peter Treichler
- January 22nd: Jürgen Kross
- January 23: Diana Athill
- January 27: Emmanuel Hocquard
- January 28th: Humberto Ak'abal
- February
- Carol Emshwiller February 2:
- Peter Steinbach February 6:
- Patricia Nell Warren February 9:
- February 12th: WEB Griffin
- February 13: Dezső Tandori
- February 14th: Andrea Levy
- February 15: Lee Radziwill
- February 24th: Lothar Zenetti
- February 25: Janet Asimov
- February 25: Leonid Uschkalow
- February 26: Charles McCarry
- February 27th: Pierrette Fleutiaux
- February 27: Heinrich Wiesner
- March
- Peter van Gestel March 1st:
- Guillaume Faye March 7th:
- Bernard Binlin Dadié March 9:
- March 11th: Paul-Josef Raue
- March 11th: Joe Rosenblatt
- March 12th: Marjorie Weinman Sharmat
- March 15: WS Merwin
- March 15: Jean-Pierre Richard
- March 25: Gabriel Okara
- March 27: Friedrich Achleitner
- March 29th: Allan Cole
- March 29: Anders Ehnmark (announcement of death)
- March 29: Dieter Schlesak
- April
- Rafael Sánchez Ferlosio April 1:
- Vonda N. McIntyre April 1:
- April 13th: Francisca Aguirre
- April 13th: Tony Buzan
- April 15: Warren Adler
- April 19: Werner Gnuechtel
- April 22nd: Wenceslav Konstantinov
- April 22nd: William Levy
- April 25: Wolfgang Körner
- April 28th: Wayson Choy
- May
- Ingomar von Kieseritzky May 5th:
- Celil Oker May 5:
- May 11: Sven Holm
- May 12th: Michail Krausnick
- May 14: Leopoldo Brizuela
- May 14: Sven Lindqvist
- May 16: Nikolai Baturin
- May 20th: Nanni Balestrini
- May 21: Binyavanga Wainaina
- May 27th: François Weyergans
- May 29: Jiří Stránský
- May 30th: Anthony Price
- June
- Agustina Bessa-Luís June 3:
- Wolfram Eicke June 5th:
- Fernando Aínsa June 6:
- Jurij Muschketyk June 6:
- Seiko Tanabe June 6:
- Gerlind Reinshagen June 8th:
- Ernst Brauner June 8:
- June 17th: Gloria Laura Vanderbilt
- June 22nd: Judith Krantz
- July
- July 10: Lucette Lagnado
- July 13: Wiktor Sosnora
- July 16: Rosa María Britton
- July 16: Howard Engel
- July 16: Arthur Häny
- July 17th: Andrea Camilleri
- July 18: Luciano De Crescenzo
- July 19: Werner Söllner
- July 21: Markus Ramseier
- July 23: Peter Horn
- July 24th: Claes Andersson
- July 25th: Pierre Péan
- July 28: Werner Heiduczek
- July 29: Tuvia Rübner
- August
- Helmut Bez August 7th:
- August 10: Barbara Bronnen
- August 10: Rudolf Scholz
- August 15: Luigi Lunari
- August 26th: Claretta Cerio
- August 26 (announcement): Karl Garbe
- August 27: Fredrika Gers
- August 29th: Terrance Dicks
- August 30: Park T'ae-sun
- September
- Rea Brändle September 2:
- Kiran Nagarkar September 5:
- Viktor Staudt September 8:
- September 11: Rada Biller
- September 13: György Konrád
- September 13th: Nanos Valaoritis
- September 18: Graeme Gibson
- September 19: Guido Schmezer
- September 19: Sol Stein
- September 22nd: Horst Drescher
- September 23: Al Alvarez
- September 23: Elaine Feinstein
- September 25: Paul Badura-Skoda
- September 25: Lyubomir Levchev
- September 26: Hanns HF Schmidt
- October
- Detlef Merbd October 4th:
- Ciaran Carson October 6:
- October 11th: John Giorno
- October 12: Alison Prince
- October 14: Christa Mühl
- October 19: Herbert Friedmann
- October 22: Ole Henrik Laub
- October 24th: Michael Blumlein
- October 25: Vera Friedländer
- October 27: Vladimir Bukovsky
- November
- Ernst Augustin November 3:
- Helmut Richter November 3:
- December
Other personalities
- Dagfinn Bakke (Norwegian book illustrator) January 1st:
- Gert Frederking (German publisher) February 1:
- Klaus G. Renner (German publisher) June 2:
- Ulrike Crespo (German patron) October 7th:
Public domain 2019
The works of the following writers who died in 1948 have been in the public domain since January 1, 2019 :
- Avedis Aharonian
- Sabahattin Ali
- Sergei Alymov
- Antonin Artaud
- Ernst von Aster
- Gertrude Atherton
- Richard Atwater
- Raoul Auernheimer
- Stephen Morehouse Avery
- Jesús Batikuling Balmori
- Michel Becker
- Milan Begović
- Ruth Benedict
- René Benjamin
- Theodor Bergmann
- Folke Bernadotte
- Georges Bernanos
- Emil Bernhard
- Rudolf Bernoulli
- Félix Bertaux
- Dorothea Bleek
- Gordon Bottomley
- Sophonisba Breckinridge
- Paul Brocker
- Ferdinand Bronner
- Paul Burg
- Bruno Bürgel
- Andrea Butenschön
- Wilhelm Capitaine
- Gertrud Caspari
- Ludwig Derleth
- Dildar
- Janus Djurhuus
- Bertha Eckstein servant
- Sergei Eisenstein
- Max Epstein
- Hans Eschelbach
- Zelda Fitzgerald
- Aron Freimann
- Theódór Friðriksson
- Robert Dean Frisbie
- Friedrich Fuchs
- Sophie Gallwitz
- Max Geilinger
- Susan Glaspell
- Johannes Gosselck
- Frederick Philip Grove
- Gustav Halm
- Otto Hamann
- Jakob Haringer
- Th. Th. Heine
- Emmy Hennings
- Heinrich Herm
- Camilla Hirsch
- Perez deer leg
- Max Hochdorf
- Josef Hofbauer
- Maria Homscheid
- Vicente Huidobro
- Well, Hye-sok
- Okamoto Ippei
- Karl Itzinger
- Juhan Jaik
- Kikuchi Kan
- Alfred Kerr
- Franz Kesting
- Egon Erwin Kisch
- Jakob Klatzkin
- Adolf Koelsch
- Wilhelm Kotzde-Kottenrodt
- Heinrich Ernst Kromer
- Elissa Landi
- Maria Lazar
- Franz Leppmann
- Monteiro Lobato
- Emil Ludwig
- AEW Mason
- Gustav Mayer
- Claude McKay
- Ernst Heinrich Wilhelm Meyer
- Ernst Modersohn
- Thomas Mofolo
- Dazai Osamu
- Woldemar Oskar Döring
- Louis Parrot
- Albert Pauphilet
- Anna Hilaria Preuss
- Erich von Rath
- Wilhelm Reuter
- Franz Rinsche
- Emile Ripert
- Willard Robertson
- Carl Rossler
- Alice Salomon
- Anna von Sazenhofen
- Adam Scharrer
- Karel Scheinpflug
- Robert Renato Schmidt
- Isaac Schreyer
- Rosika swimmer
- Kurt Schwitters
- May Wood Simons
- Josef Skružný
- Heinrich Stadelmann
- Georg Stammler
- Hugh Fraser Stewart
- Hildegard Stradal
- André Suarès
- Marie von Suttner
- Georg Terramare
- Ernest Tonnelat
- John Kenneth Turner
- Karl Valentin
- Paul Van Tieghem
- Karl Gustav Vollmoeller
- Hans Watzlik
- Konrad Weichberger
- Denton Welch
- Helene Weyl
- Karl Wolfskehl
- Beatrice Zade
See also Public Domain 2019 on Wikisource
New releases
Novels, short stories
- Babel - Kenah Cusanit
- Brothers - Jackie Thomae
- The book dragon - Walter Moers
- Love in an emergency - Daniela Krien
- Erebos (novel) (continued from 2010) - Ursula Poznanski
- Shuttlecock - John le Carré
- Greed - How Far Would You Go? - Marc Elsberg
- GRM. Brainfuck - Sibylle Berg
- The light - TC Boyle
- Maigret in the House of Unrest - Georges Simenon
- Serotonin - Michel Houellebecq
- Stella - Taki's strangler
- Zazie in the Metro - Raymond Queneau (new translation)
- The witnesses - Margaret Atwood
Non-fiction
Other works
- Diary of a librarian (Vol. VI) - Helmuth Schönauer
Literature prizes 2019
German-language literary prizes
This section contains prizes awarded in Germany, Austria or Switzerland. The award-winning authors or works do not have to be in German.
- A.
- Adalbert Stifter Prize : Anna Mitgutsch
- Alfred Döblin Medal : Theresia Enzensberger
- Alfred Döblin Prize : Ulrich Woelk
- Alfred Kerr Prize for Literary Criticism : Marie Schmidt
- Alfred Müller Felsenburg Prize : Özlem Özgül Dündar
- AK Literature Prize : Main Prize: Marie Luise Lehner for Anna. Minimum income ; Audience award: Isabella Straub for the second best thing that happened to me
- Andreas Gryphius Prize : Benedikt Dyrlich
- Anke Bennholdt Thomsen Poetry Prize : Sina Klein
- Anna Seghers Prize : Fernanda Melchor , Joshua Groß
- Annalize Wagner Prize : Reinhard Simon for Domjücher fates
- Antiquarian Prize : Klaus Völker
- Anton Wildgans Prize : Daniel Kehlmann
- Arthur Schnitzler Prize : René Pollesch
- aspekte literature prize : Miku Sophie Kühmel for Kintsugi
- August Graf von Platen Prize : Joachim Sartorius ; Sponsorship award: Gerasimos Bekas
- Author's Prize of the Heidelberger Stückemarkt : Teresa Dopler for The White Village
- avj media award : Maren Bonacker
- B.
- Bavarian Book Prize : Fiction: David Wagner for The Forgetful Giant ; Non-fiction book: Jan-Werner Müller : fear and freedom. For a different liberalism
- Bavarian Art Prize : Katharina Adler for Ida (novel); Tristan Marquardt for scrolling in deep sea (poetry book); Shared price for Benedikt Feiten with So oder so ist das Leben (novel) and Nora Zapf with homogloben (poetry book)
- Bavarian poet thaler : Michaela Karl , Ludwig Zehetner , Maria Peschek , Christoph Süß
- Ben Witter Prize : Axel Hacke
- Berlin Literature Prize : Clemens J. Setz
- Picture book prize piggyback : Beatrice Alemagna for A great day on which almost nothing happened
- Bonn town clerk : Thomas de Padova for Nonna
- Bremen Literature Prize : Main Prize: Arno Geiger for Unter der Drachenwand ; Sponsorship award: Heinz Helle for overcoming gravity
- Salzburg Economy Book Prize : Arno Kleibel
- Book Prize of the Ravensburger Verlag Foundation : Saskia Luka for day after day
- Buxtehuder Bulle : Amy Giles for Now is all we have
- C.
- Carl Amery Literature Prize : Karen Duve
- Carl Zuckmayer Medal : Robert Menasse
- Chamisso Prize : María Cecilia Barbetta for night lights
- Christine Lavant Prize : Angela Krauss
- Christoph Martin Wieland Translator Award : Eva Schweikart
- Clemens Brentano Prize : Gianna Molinari for Everything is still possible here
- Coburg Rückert Prize : Sara Rai
- Comic book award : Anke Kuhl for Manno!
- Conrad Ferdinand Meyer Prize : Viktoria Dimitrova Popova
- Crime Cologne Award : Romy Hausmann for Dear Child
- D.
- The political book : Nikola Roßbach for attention to censorship! About freedom of expression and its limits
- German Book Prize : Saša Stanišić for Origin
- German Fantasy Prize : Alfred Vejchar
- German Audio Book Prize (selection): Best radio play: Judith Lorentz for Juli Zeh : Unterleuten ; Best children's audio book : Stefan Kaminski for Martin Muser : Kannawoniwasein! Sometimes you just have to evaporate ; Best non-fiction book: Sabeeka Gangjee-Well / Hans Well : Rotes Bayern - Long live the Free State!
- German Youth Literature Prize : Picture book: Iris Anemone Paul for Polka for Igor ; Children's book: Erin Entrada Kelly (text), Birgitt Kollmann (translation) for Four Wishes for the Universe ; Book for young people: Steven Herrick (text), Uwe-Michael Gutzschhahn (translation) for I know, I'll dream tonight ; Non-fiction book: Anja Reumschüssel for extremism ; Prize of the youth jury: Neal Shusterman (text), Brendan Shusterman (illustration), Ingo Herzke (translation) for Kompass ohne Norden
- German children's radio play award : Angela Gerrits for one and a half miracles and a sparrow
- German Crime Prize : National: Simone Buchholz for Mexikoring ; International: Hideo Yokoyama for 64
- German Prize for Nature Writing : Daniela Danz and Martina Kieninger
- German Science Fiction Award : Best Novel: Tom Hillenbrand for Hologrammatica ; Best short story: Thorsten Küper for Confinement
- German Business Book Prize : Paul Collier
- Dieter Wellershoff Scholarship : Ulrike Anna Bleier and Bastian Schneider
- Donnersberger Literaturtage / Prize for the most creative writing school in the Palatinate and Rheinhessen: Elisabeth-Langgässer-Gymnasium , Alzey
- Dresden city clerk : Bernd Wagner
- Düsseldorf Literature Prize : Karen Duve
- E.
- Egon Erwin Kisch Prize : Bastian Berbner for the report Me and the very other
- Honorary gift from the German Schiller Foundation : Thomas Stangl
- Honorary award from the Austrian book trade for tolerance in thought and action : Francesca Melandri
- Eichendorff Literature Prize : Christa Ludwig
- Einhard Prize : Emmanuelle Loyer for her biography Claude Lévi-Strauss
- Else Otten Translator Award : Ira Wilhelm for Die Fremde by Stefan Hertmans
- Erich Fried Prize : Steffen Mensching (Juror: Christoph Hein )
- Erich Loest Prize : Hans Joachim Schädlich for Felix and Felka
- Erlangen literary prize for poetry as translation : Theresia Prammer
- Ernst Hoferichter Prize : Dieter Hanitzsch and Christine Wunnicke (rejected the prize)
- Ernst Jandl Prize : Oswald Egger
- Eugen Helmlé Translator Award : Sonja Finck
- Euregio student literature prize : Hugo Horiot for I am the king
- Evangelical Book Prize : Nora Krug for Heimat. A German family album
- F.
- Fire pen : Tania Witte
- Fontane Literature Prize of the Fontane City of Neuruppin and the State of Brandenburg : Peggy Mädler for Where We Go
- Franz Hessel Prize : Susanne Röckel for Der Vogelgott and Anne-Marie Garat for Le Grand Nord-Ouest
- Franz Nabl Prize : Olga Flor
- Franz Tumler Literature Prize : Angela Lehner for our father ; Audience award: Lola Randl for The Great Garden
- Ms. Ava Literature Prize : Claudia Bitter
- Peace Prize of the German Book Trade : Sebastião Salgado
- Friedolin : Maja Nielsen for Tatort Eden 1919
- Friedrich Glauser Prize : Novel: Max Bronski for Oskar ; Debut: Cid Jonas Gutenrath for Scorpions ; Short story: Almuth Heuner for Black Heritage ; Honorary award: Thomas Koch
- Friedrich Hölderlin Prize of the City of Bad Homburg : Anke Stelling ; Sponsorship award: Eckhart Nickel for Hysteria
- Friedrich Nietzsche Prize : Ágnes Heller (posthumous)
- G
- Georg Büchner Prize : Lukas Bärfuss
- Gert Jonke Prize : Ewald Palmetshofer
- Gertrud Kolmar Prize : Ulrike Draesner for Doggerland ; Second Prize: Pega Mund for Five Pigments ; Sponsorship award: Ronya Othmann for I've seen
- Geschwister-Scholl-Preis : Ahmet Altan for I'll never see the world again. Texts from prison
- Gleim Literature Prize : Patrick Stoffel for The Alps. Where nature came to its senses
- Goethe Medal (selection): Doğan Akhanlı and Enkhbat Roozon
- Goethe plaque of the city of Frankfurt am Main : Bodo Kirchhoff
- Golden Leslie : Christian Linker for The Shot
- Golden Book Pirate : Anca Sturm for Der Welten-Express
- Gottfried Keller Prize : Adolf Muschg and Thomas Hürlimann
- Göttingen elk : Gerhard Haderer
- Günter Grass Prize : Jens Sparschuh
- Gustav Heinemann Peace Prize for books for children and young people : Judith Burger for Gertrude unlimited
- H
- HC Artmann grant : Radka Denemarková
- Hamburg Picture Book Prize : Ulrike Jänichen for the Fish Train
- Hamburg guest : Katelijne Gillis
- Hansjörg Martin Prize : June Perry for White Maze
- Hattinger Prize for Young Literature : Linda König
- Heimrad Bäcker Prize : Michael Donhauser and Natascha Gangl (sponsorship award)
- Heinrich Böll Prize : July Zeh
- Heinrich Mann Prize : Danilo Scholz
- Heinrich Maria Ledig Rowohlt Prize : Tanja Handels
- Hermann Kesten Prize : Philippe Lançon
- Hermann Sinsheimer Prize : Herta Müller
- Hessian Publishing Prize : Schöffling & Co. , Frankfurt am Main; Special prize: Mabuse-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main
- Hieronymusring : Marianne Gareis
- Hilde Domin Prize for Literature in Exile : Natascha Wodin
- Hohenems Literature Prize : Karosh Taha for body language
- Audiobook of the Year : The Years of Annie Ernaux ; Child and Youth Audiobook of the Year: The terrible history of heinous family Willoughby by Lois Lowry
- Radio play of the year : GEH DICHT DICHTIG! Audio play dialogue with Elfriede Gerstl by Ruth Johanna Benrath , director: Christine Nagel , composition: Lauren Newton (ORF / BR)
- I.
- Ingeborg Bachmann Prize : Birgit Birnbacher for The Cabinet ; Deutschlandfunk Prize: Leander Fischer for directory of nymphs, pattern number one gold head ; Kelag Prize: Julia Jost for Not Far from the Jackal Valley ; 3sat Prize: Yannic Han Biao Federer for Kenn ich nicht ; BKS audience award: Ronya Othmann for seventy-four
- International Literature Prize - House of World Cultures : Fernanda Melchor (author) and Angelica Ammar (translator) for the season of cyclones
- Italo Svevo Prize : Patricia Görg
- J
- Annual scholarship for writers from the Ministry of Science and Art of the State of Baden-Württemberg : Kristina Nenninger and Julia Rothenburg as well as for half a year: Tibor Schneider and Mikael Vogel
- James Krüss Prize for international children's and youth literature : Frida Nilsson and Friederike Buchinger (translators)
- Jane Scatcherd Prize : Ursel Allenstein
- Japan Foundation Translator Prize : Sabine Mangold for Yōko Ogawa : Tender Lament and Kazuaki Takano : 13 levels
- Jean Paul Prize : Ursula Krechel
- Jeanette Schocken Prize : Dževad Karahasan
- Johann Heinrich Merck Prize for literary criticism and essay : Daniela Strigl
- Johann Heinrich Voss Prize for Translation : Kurt Steinmann
- Joseph Breitbach Prize : Thomas Hettche
- Railway station journalist award : Holger Fröhlich
- Julius Campe Prize : Mara Delius
- K
- Karl Dedecius Prize : Monika Muskala and Thomas Weiler (awarded for the last time)
- Karl Preusker Medal : Hannelore Vogt
- Karl Sczuka Prize : Ulrike Janssen and Marc Matter for sea sound sponge and silence ; Sponsorship award: Jiří Adámek and Ladislav Źelezný for Hra na uši / The Ears Game
- Catholic Children's and Youth Book Prize : Steven Herrick and Uwe-Michael Gutzschhahn for I know, I'll dream tonight
- Kassel Literature Prize for Grotesque Humor : Main Prize: Sibylle Berg ; Sponsorship award: Jakob Nolte
- Children's book award of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia : Katja Gehrmann for Stadtbär
- Klaus-Michael Kühne Prize : Dana von Suffrin for Otto
- Kleist Prize : Ilma Rakusa
- Kleist sponsorship award : Peter Thiers for waiting for the storm
- Klopstock Prize for New Literature : Alexander Kluge for his life's work (main prize); Aron Boks for This room is already occupied (sponsorship award)
- Korbinian - Paul Maar Prize : Lara protective bag for sun, moon and stars
- Kranichsteiner Literature Prize : Nora Bossong
- Kranichsteiner youth literature scholarships : Stefanie Höfler for The Big Black Bird and to Bettina Wilpert for nothing that happens to us
- Art and Culture Prize of the City of Lucerne : Christina Viragh
- Art prize of the state capital Dresden : Marcel Beyer for Kaltenburg
- Kurd Laßwitz Prize (selection): Novel: Andreas Eschbach for NSA - National Security Office ; Short story / narration: Thorsten Küper for Confinement ; foreign work: Jasper Fforde for Eiswelt
- Kurt Tucholsky Prize : Margarete Stokowski
- Kurt Wolff Prize : Andreas J. Meyer ( Merlin Verlag ); Sponsorship award: edition.fotoTapeta
- L.
- Leo Perutz Prize : Alex Beer for The Dark Messenger
- Leonce and Lena Prize : Yevgeniy Breyger
- Readers votes : Melanie Laibl for Verkühl you every day
- Lessing Prize of the Free State of Saxony : Main Prize: Marcel Beyer ; Sponsorship awards: Anja Kampmann and Bettina Wilpert
- LiBeraturpreis : Mercedes Rosende for crocodile tears
- Independent's favorite book : Delia Owens for The Crayfish Song
- Liliencron Lecturer : José FA Oliver
- Alpha Literature Prize : Angela Lehner for our father
- Literature Prize of the Jürgen Ponto Foundation : Miku Sophie Kühmel
- Literature Prize of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation : Husch Josten
- Literature Prize of the State Capital Hanover : Deniz Utlu for The Unholders
- Literature Prize of the City of Bremen : Barbara Honigmann for Georg ; Sponsorship award: Tonio Schachinger for Not Like You
- Literature award of the city of Fulda : Johanna Maxl for our big album electric days
- Literature Prize of the Eisenhüttenstadt Steel Foundation : Jakob Hein
- Literature prize Hommage à la France : Wilfried Loth for Fast a Revolution. May 68 in France
- Prenzlauer Berg Literature Prize : Simoné Lechner, Rina Schmeller, Marie Lucienne Verse
- LovelyBooks readers' award (selection): Novel: Jojo Moyes for Like a shine in the deep night ; Crime & Thriller: Sebastian Fitzek for The Gift ; Fantasy & Science Fiction: Marah Woolf for Wrath of the Angels
- Ludwig Börne Prize : Eva Menasse
- Lüttjepütt Prize : Low and Frisian in Schools V.
- M.
- Magdeburg city clerk : Nele Heyse
- Mainz town clerk : Eva Menasse
- Manuscript Prize : Gerhild Steinbuch
- Marieluise Fleißer Prize : Iris Wolff
- Märkisches scholarship for literature : Marie Gamillscheg for everything that glitters
- Mülheim Dramatist Prize : Thomas Köck for atlas
- Mülheim Children's Pieces Prize : Kristo Šagor for I love you
- N
- NDR Kultur Non-Fiction Book Prize : Robert Macfarlane for Im Unterland. A journey of discovery into the world underground
- Low German Literature Prize of the City of Kappeln : Dörte Hansen
- O
- Oldenburg Children's and Young People's Book Prize : Tanja Fabsits for The Goldfish Is Innocent
- Austrian Book Prize : Main Prize: Norbert Gstrein for When I Was Young ; Debut award: Angela Lehner for our father
- Austrian children's and youth book award : Jens Rassmus : Das Nacht-Tier / Albert Wendt and Linda Wolfsgruber (illustrations): Henrikes roof garden. The miracle on the Krummen Sieben / Irmgard Kramer : 17 findings about Leander Blum / Lilly Axster and Christine Aebi: A little like you / A little like you
- Austrian detective award : Daniela Larcher
- Austrian Art Prize for Literature : Maja Haderlap
- Austrian State Prize for European Literature : Michel Houellebecq
- Austrian State Prize for Literary Criticism : Katja Gasser
- Outstanding Artist Award for Literature : Bernhard Strobel
- P
- Paul Celan Prize : Annette Kopetzki
- Paul Scheerbart Prize : Eduard Klopfenstein
- Penzberger Urmel : Antonia Michaelis (text) and Claudia Carls (illustrations) for Das Blaubeerhaus
- Peter Härtling Prize : Antje Herden for No more halves
- Peter Huchel Prize : Thilo Krause for what we talk about when there is a thunderstorm
- Peter Weiss Prize : Otobong Nkanga
- Fantastic Literature Prize Seraph : Best Book: Bernhard Hennen for The Chronicles of Azuhr - The Cursed ; Debut: Kris Brynn for The Shelter - Future Without Hope ; Independent: Birgit Jaeckel for Das Erbe der Rauhnacht
- Fantastic Prize of the City of Wetzlar : Antje Wagner for Hyde
- Poetry Debut Prize Düsseldorf : Sebastian Unger
- Poetics professorship at the University of Bamberg : Michael Köhlmeier
- postpoetry.NRW : Ingeborg Brenne-Markner (Bonn), Marion Gay (Hamm), Johanna Hansen (Düsseldorf), Thomas Kade (Dortmund), Harald Kappel; Sponsorship award: Michelle Giering (Unna), Josephine Kullat (Düsseldorf), Karoline Marliani (Schwalmtal), Lisa Polster (Cologne), Meike Wanner (Cologne)
- Group 48 Prize : Poetry: Mechthild Bordt-Haakshorst ; Prose: Peter Coon
- Prize of the Leipzig Book Fair : Fiction: Anke Stelling for sheep in the dry ; Nonfiction book: Harald Jähner for Wolfszeit. Germany and the Germans 1945–1955 ; Translation: Eva Ruth Wemme for Lost Morning by Gabriela Adameşteanu
- LiteraTour North Prize : Joachim Zelter
- City of Munster Prize for International Poetry : Eugene Ostashevsky (poet); Monika Rinck and Uljana Wolf (translators)
- Prize of the City of Vienna for Literature : Sabine Gruber
- Preuschhof Prize : Cally Stronk for Theo and the man in the ear
- Prix de l'Académie de Berlin : Annie Ernaux
- Prix des lycéens allemands : Jo Witek for Une fille de…
- R.
- Radio Bremen crime prize : Liza Cody
- Rauris Literature Prize : Philipp Weiss for At the Edge of the World, People Sit and Laugh , Promotion Prize for Katherina Braschel
- Reinhard Priessnitz Prize : Barbi Marković
- Rheingau Literature Prize : Dörte Hansen for lunch hour
- Robert Gernhardt Prize : Nina Bußmann for her novel project Thicket
- Roswitha Prize : Monika Rinck
- S.
- Saxon Publishing Prize : Connewitzer Verlagbuchhandlung
- Samuel Bogumil Linde Prize : Christoph Hein and Szczepan Twardoch
- Schiller Memorial Prize : Nino Harati vili ; Advancement awards to Svealena Kutschke and Maryam Zaree
- Schiller Prize of the Zürcher Kantonalbank : Angelika Waldis for I'm coming with me
- Schubart Literature Prize : Daniel Kehlmann for Tyll , Sponsorship Prize: Nora Krug for Heimat. A German family album
- Swiss Book Prize : Sibylle Berg for GRM. Brainfuck
- Swiss literary prizes (selection): Julia von Lucadou for Die Hochhausspringerin ; Patrick Savolainen for Farantheiner ; Christina Viragh for One of These Nights ; “Swiss Grand Prix Literature”: Zsuzsanna Gahse
- Sigmund Freud Prize for Scientific Prose : Thomas Macho
- Sondermann Prize : Nicolas Mahler for his comics based on masterpieces of world literature; Sponsorship award: Stefanie Sargnagel
- Spycher: Leuk Literature Prize : Radka Denemarková
- State Prize for Literary Translation : Cornelius Hell (translation into German); Maja Badridse (translation into a foreign language)
- City clerk of Bergen-Enkheim : Anja Kampmann
- City clerk of Graz : Zeyn Joukhadar
- Town clerk of Halle (Saale) : Christian Kreis
- Straelen Translator Prize : Main Prize: Olga Radetzkaja for the translation of Viktor Schklowski's Sentimental Journey ; Sponsorship award: Jan Schönherr for the translation of New York by Francis Spufford
- Susanne Faschon Prize : Johanna Kunz ( Elisabeth-Langgässer-Gymnasium , Alzey)
- T
- Text & Speech : Enis Maci
- Squidward Troll Prize : Iris Wolff for pretending it's raining
- Theodor Kramer Prize : Claudia Erdheim and Martin Pollack
- Thuringian Literature Prize : Sibylle Berg
- Thuringian Literature Scholarship : Vera Vorneweg
- Thuringian Fairy Tale and Legends Prize : Ruth B. Bottigheimer
- Goal scorer at Pariser Platz : Galal Alahmadi
- Tractatus Prize : Lisa Herzog for saving work
- Troisdorf picture book award (selection): Christiane Pieper for her illustrations of Hick! by Anushka Ravishankar
- Tukan Prize : Herbert Kapfer for 1919. Fiction
- U
- Ginkgo Biloba translator award for poetry : Theresia Prammer
- Usedom Literature Prize : Jenny Erpenbeck
- Uwe Johnson Prize : Kenah Cusanit for Babel (sponsorship award)
- V
- Victor Otto Stomps Prize : Main Prize: Friedenauer Presse , Berlin-Friedenau; Sponsorship Award: Otto Dettmer Jury Favorite Award: Peter Zaumseil (Dreier Press)
- W.
- Wachtberger Kugel : Eberhard Gast ; Audience award: Manfred Rothengatter
- Walter Kempowski Prize for Biographical Literature : Jochen Schimmang
- wbg book prize for the humanities : Thomas Bauer for Why there was no Islamic Middle Ages
- Werner Bergengruen Prize : Ingo Schulze
- Wildweibchenpreis : Rosemarie Tüpker
- Wilhelm Busch Prize : Isabel Kreitz
- Wilhelm Raabe Literature Prize : Norbert Scheuer for winter bees
- Knowledge book of the year : Overview: Roland Schulz for How We Die ; Aesthetics: Andrea Wulf and Lillian Melcher for The Adventures of Alexander von Humboldt ; Entertainment: Richard Powers for The Roots of Life ; Surprise: Menno Schilthuizen for Darwin in the city ; Fuel: Yuval Noah Harari for 21 lessons for the 21st century ; Perspective: Karsten Brensing , Nikolai Renger for How animals think and feel
- Science book of the year (Austria; selection): Medicine / Biology: Eric Kandel for Was ist der Mensch? Brain disorders and what they reveal about human nature , translated by Sebastian Vogel ; Humanities / social / cultural studies: Roman Sandgruber for Rothschild. Glory and decline of the Viennese world house
- Wolfgang Weyrauch Award : Alexandru Bulucz and Charlotte Warsen
- Requests to speak - Prize: Thomas Stangl ; Sponsorship awards: Katherina Braschel , Luca Manuel Kieser and Jana Krüger
- Würth Literature Prize : 1st Prize for Sven Amtsberg , Rakete Schmidt ; 2nd prize for Silke Andrea Schuemmer , Borschtsch in Venice
- Z
- Zonser Hörspielpreis : Märzengrund (Author: Felix Mitterer , Director: Martin Sailer )
International literary prizes
- A.
- A. Bertram Chandler Memorial Award : Alan Stewart
- Adam Mickiewicz Prize : Wiesław Myśliwski for Ucho igielne
- Agatha Award (selection): Best novel: Ellen Byron for Mardi Gras Murder
- Akutagawa Prize : Imamura Natsuko for Murasaki no sukāto no onna
- Andre Norton Award : Tomi Adeyemi for Children of Blood and Bone
- Anthony Award (selection): Best Novel: Lou Berney for November Road ; Best First Novel : Oyinkan Braithwaite for My Sister, the Serial Killer ; Best paperback novel: Lori Rader-Day : Under a Dark Sky
- Arthur C. Clarke Award : Tade Thompson for Rosewater
- Arthur Ellis Award (selection): Best Novel: Anne Emery for Though the Heavens Fall ; Best Debut Novel: AJ Devlin for Cobra Clutch ; Best Detective Story: John Lawrence Reynolds for Murder Among the Pines
- Aschehoug Literature Prize : Johan Harstad
- Astrid Lindgren Prize : Kerstin Lundberg Hahn
- August Prize : Fiction: Marit Kapla for Osebol ; Textbook : Patrik Svensson for Ålevangeliet. Advice on världens mest gåtfulla fisk ; Children's and young people's book: Oskar Kroon for Vänta på vind ; Honorary award: Jan Stolpe
- Aurealis Award (selection): SF novel: Jay Kristoff for Lifel1k3 , fantasy novel: Sam Hawke for City of Lies , horror novel: Kaaron Warren for Tide of Stone
- B.
- Baillie Gifford Prize : Hallie Rubenhold for The Five: The Untold Lives of The Women Killed by Jack the Ripper
- Barry Award (selection): Best Novel: Lou Berney for November Road ; Best First Novel: CJ Tudor for The Chalk Man ; Best paperback novel : Dervla McTiernan for The Ruin ; Best thriller: Dan Fesperman for Safe Houses
- Bisto Book of the Year Award : Kelly McCaughrain for Flying Tips for Flightless Birds
- Blóðdropinn : Lilja Sigurðardóttir
- Bologna Ragazzi Award (fiction): Vojtech Masek and Chrudos Valousek (illustrations) for Panáček, pecka, švestka, poleno a zase panáček
- Booker Prize : Margaret Atwood for The Testaments and Bernardine Evaristo for Girl, Woman, Other
- Brageprisen (selection): Fiction for adults: Nina Lykke for Full spredning ; Honorary award: Edvard Hoem
- Bram Stoker Award (selection): Graham Masterton (life's work), Paul Tremblay for The Cabin at the End of the World (novel), Gwendolyn Kiste for The Rust Maidens (debut novel)
- Wroclaw Poetry Prize Silesius : Complete works: Ewa Lipska ; Book of the year: Cele by Adam Kaczanowski ; Debut of the year: Maciej Bobula for wsie, animalia, miscellanea
- British Fantasy Award (selection): Fantasy novel (Robert Holdstock Award): Jen Williams for The Bitter Twins ; Horror Novel (August Derleth Award): Catriona Ward for Little Eve
- British Science Fiction Association Award : Novel: Mary Robinette Kowal for The Calculating Stars ; Short Story: Ian McDonald for Time Was
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Bruno Kreisky Prize for the political book :
- Grand Prize: Martin Schürz for over wealth
- Prize for the complete journalistic work: Barbara Coudenhove-Kalergi
- C.
- Caine Prize for African Writing : Lesley Nneka Arimah for Skinned
- Caldecott Medal : Sophie Blackall for Hello Lighthouse
- Chūōkōron Literature Prize : Shūichi Yoshida for Kokuhō
- Compton Crook Award : Rebecca F. Kuang for The Poppy War
- Constantijn Huygensprijs : Stefan Hertmans
- Cundill History Prize : Julia Lovell for Maoism: A Global History
- D.
- Dagger Award (selection): Best English-language detective novel (Gold Dagger): MW Craven for The Puppet Show (German: Flames of Retaliation ); Lifetime Achievement Award (CWA Diamond Dagger): Robert William Goddard
- Thank-you-for-the-book medal : Satu Vasantola for En palaa takaisin koskaan, luulen
- De Inktaap : Murat Işık for Wees onzichtbaar
- Dell Magazines Award : Ana Maria Curtis for Military Sunset
- Franco-German Youth Literature Prize : Germany: Hannah Brückner for My Fantastic Tree House ; France: Rébecca Dautremer for Les Riches Heures de Jacominus Gainsborough
- Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize : Laisha Rosnau for Our Familiar Hunger
- DR Novel Prize : Morten Pape for Guds bedste børn
- Dylan Thomas Prize : Guy Gunaratne for In Our Mad and Furious City
- Dwarf Stars Award : Sofía Rhei for embalmed
- E.
- Edgar Allan Poe Award (selection): Best novel: Walter Mosley for Down the River Unto the Sea ; Best First Novel: James A. McLaughlin for Bearskin ; Grand Master Award: Martin Cruz Smith
- Eisner Award (selection): Best author: Tom King for Batman, Mister Miracle, Heroes in Crisis, Swamp Thing Winter Special
- Elgin Award : Book: Marge Simon and Alessandro Manzetti for War ; Chapbook: Holly Lyn Walrath for Glimmerglass Girl
- Encore Award : Sally Rooney for Normal People
- Endeavor Award : KR Richardson for Blood Orbit
- F.
- Faroese Literature Prize : Oddfríður Marni Rasmussen (fiction), Hanus Kamban (non-fiction)
- Ferdinand Bordewijk Prize : Marente de Moor for Foon
- Finnish crime prize : Eva Frantz for Kahdeksas neito
- Finnish State Prize for Foreign Translators : Elina Kritzokat
- Forry Award : Barbara Hambly
- Franz Kafka Prize : Pierre Michon (France)
- Friedebert Tuglas Novella Prize : Tiit Aleksejev for Tõlkija ; Jan Kaus for Õnnelik lõpp
- Frost Medal : Eleanor Wilner
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- Geffen Prize : SF novel translation: Andy Weir for Artemis ; Fantasy Novel Translation: Brandon Sanderson for The Alloy of Law ; YA Roman Translation: Rick Riordan for The Ship of the Dead
- Gerard Bonnier Poetry Prize : Mara Lee for Kärleken och hatet
- Gouden Strop : Samantha Stroombergen for De witte kamer
- Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire (selection): French-language novel: Patrick K. Dewdney for Le Cycle de Syffe (volumes 1 and 2); Foreign language novel: Ben H. Winters for Underground Airlines
- Grand Prix de la Ville d'Angoulême : Rumiko Takahashi
- Grand Prix du Roman : Laurent Binet for Civilizations
- Griffin Poetry Prize for Lifetime Achievement: Nicole Brossard
- Bookseller Grand Prize : Seo Maiko for Soshite, baton wa watasareta
- H
- Hagiwara Sakutarō Prize : Wagō Ryōichi for Kyūkyūkyū
- Hawthornden Prize : Sue Prideaux for I Am Dynamite !: A Life of Friedrich Nietzsche
- Hercule Poirot Prize : Dominique Biebau for Russian voor beginners
- Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize
- I.
- Ieva Simonaitytė Literature Prize : Domas Kaunas for Aš esu Etmės Evė
- International Booker Prize : Jokha al-Harthi (author) and Marilyn Booth (translation) for Celestial Bodies
- International DUBLIN Literary Award : Emily Ruskovich for Idaho
- International Prize for Arabic Fiction : Hoda Barakat for The Night Mail
- International Thriller Award (selection): Best Novel: Jennifer Hillier for Jar of Hearts ; Best First Novel: CJ Tudor for The Chalk Man ; Best novel as an original paperback: Jane Harper for The Lost Man
- International Grimm Prize : Miyake Okiko
- Irish Book Award (selection): Book of the year (fiction): Shadowplay by Joseph O'Connor ; Book of the year (non-fiction): Constellations by Sinéad Gleeson
- Ivar Lo Prize : Mats Berggren
- J
- James Tiptree, Jr. Award : Gabriela Damián Miravete for They Will Dream in the Garden
- James White Award : David Maskill for Limitations
- Jan Campert Prize : Paul Demets for De Klaverknoop
- Janina Paradowska Award : Igor Brejdygant for Rysa
- Jaroslav Seifert Prize : Miroslav Petříček
- Jerusalem Prize : Joyce Carol Oates
- John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Science Fiction Novel : Sam J. Miller for Blackfish City
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- Kazimierz Wyka Prize : Jacek Leociak
- Kerry Group Irish Fiction Award : David Park for Traveling in a Strange Land
- Kościelski Prize : Aldona Kopkiewicz
- Critics' prizes (literature): Cathrine Krøger
- Kultuurkapitali kirjanduspreemia : Martin Algus (prose), Eda Ahi (poetry), Andrus Kivirähk (children), Jim Ashilevi (drama), Luule Epner (essay writing) + (article price), Andrej Iwanow , Pavel Varunin (Russian-language literature), Triinu Pakk ( Translation), Eeva Park (Free Category), Miriam McIlfatrick-Ksenofontov (Translation from Estonian)
- L.
- Lambda Literary Award : Gay Fiction: Joshua Whitehead for Jonny Appleseed ; Lesbian Fiction: Larissa Lai for The Tiger Flu ; Bisexual Fiction: Négar Djavadi for Disoriental ; Transgender Fiction: Casey Plett for Little Fish ; LGBTQ Science Fiction and Horror: Isaac R. Fellman for The Breath of the Sun
- Læsernes bogpris : Jens Andersen for Kim Larsen - mine unge år
- European Union Literature Prize (selection): Austria: Laura Freudenthaler for ghost story
- Nordic Council Literature Prize : Jonas Eika for Efter solen
- Gdynia Literature Prize : Prose: Zyta Rudzka for Krótka wymiana ognia ; Poetry: Małgorzata Lebda for Sny uckermärkerów ; Essay writing: Olga Drenda for Wyroby. Pomysłowość wokół nas
- Locus Award (selection): Best novel: Science-Fiction: Mary Robinette Kowal for The Calculating Stars ; Fantasy: Naomi Novik for Spinning Silver ; Horror: Paul Tremblay for The Cabin at the End of the World
- Lord Ruthven Award (fiction): Theodora Goss for European Travel for the Monstrous Gentlewoman
- M.
- Macavity Award (selection): Best Novel: Lou Berney for November Road ; Best First Novel : John Copenhaver for Dodging and Burning
- Magnesia Litera : Book of the Year: Radka Denemarková : Hodiny z olova ; Prose: Pavla Horáková : Teorie podivnosti
- Maltese Falcon Award : Don Winslow for The Force (German: Corruption )
- Matt Cohen Prize : Olive Senior
- Manly Wade Wellman Award : Christopher Ruocchio for Empire of Silence
- Margaret Edwards Award : MT Anderson
- Mildred L. Batchelder Award : Evelina Daciūtė and Aušra Kiudulaitė (illustrations) for The Fox on the Swing
- Miles Franklin Award : Melissa Lucashenko for Too Much Lip
- Mishima Prize : Mikoku Michiko for Ikare koro
- Central European Angelus Literature Prize : Georgi Gospodinow for Fizyka smutku
- Musgrave Medal (literature): Michael Bucknor (gold); Shirley Carby (Silver)
- Mythopoeic Award (selection): Naomi Novik for Spinning Silver
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- Naoki Prize : Ōshima Masumi for Uzu Imoseyama-onnateikin tamamusubi
- Nebula Award (selection): Mary Robinette Kowal for The Calculating Stars (novel)
- Ngaio Marsh Award : Fiona Kidman for This Mortal Boy
- Nienke van Hichtum-prijs : Gideon Samson for Zeb
- Niels Klim Prize : Short novel: Olga Ravn : De ansatte ; Novella: Gudrun Østergaard : Krinoline og kedsomhed ; Short story: Jakob Drud : Verdensherredømme / Kenneth Krabat : Sortskørt ; Translation: Cory Doctorow : Børnehjemslederen ( Clockwork Fagin )
- Nike : Mariusz Szczygieł for Nie ma
- Nobel Prize for Literature : Peter Handke
- Nordic Award from the Swedish Academy : Karl Ove Knausgård
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- Orhan Kemal Literature Prize : Faruk Duman for Sus Barbatus
- Orwell Prize , "Book" category: Anna Burns for Milkman (Political Fiction), Patrick Radden Keefe for Say Nothing (Political Writing)
- Ottaway Award : Edith Grossman
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- PC Hooft Prize : Marga Minco
- Palle Rosenkrantz Prize : Michael Connelly for Two Kinds of Truth
- Park Kyung ni Literature Prize : Ismail Kadare
- Per Olov Enquist Prize : Amanda Svensson (Sweden)
- Person with special cultural merit (selection): Uda Kiyoko ( haikuist ); Akiko Baba (poet)
- Philip K. Dick Award : Audrey Schulman for Theory of Bastards
- Phoenix Award : Faith Hunter
- Poznan Literature Prize : Wiesław Myśliwski for Ucho igielne (Adam Mickiewicz Prize); Tomasz Bąk for Utylizacja. Pęta miast (Stanisław Barańczak grant)
- Japanese Academy of Arts Prize : Prose and Drama: Hisaki Matsuura ; Poetry: Arikawa Yōji ; Reviews and translations: Haga Tōru for Bunmei toshite no Tokugawa Nihon 1603 - 1873
- Premio Alfaguara de Novela : Patricio Pron (Argentina) for Mañana tendremos otros nombres
- Premio Atenea : Hugo Segura Gómez for Termodinámica de procesos químicos
- Prémio Camões : Chico Buarque
- Premio Gregor von Rezzori : Best foreign work: Annie Ernaux for Una Donna ; Best translation into Italian: Enrico Terrinoni for the translation of Edgar Lee Masters ' Spoon River Anthology
- Premio Hammett : Carlos Bassas del Rey for Justo ; Juan Sasturain for El último Hammett
- Premio Iberoamericano de Narrativa Manuel Rojas : Rubem Fonseca
- Prémio José Saramago : Afonso Reis Cabral for Pão de Açúcar
- Premio Strega : Antonio Scurati for M. Il figlio del secolo
- Princess of Asturias Prize for Literature : Siri Hustvedt
- Pritzker Literature Award for Lifetime Achievement in Military Writing : John H. Morrow junior
- Prix de l'Académie de Berlin : Annie Ernaux
- Prix du Meilleur livre étranger : Novel: Christoph Hein for L'ombre d'un père (original title: Glückskind mit Vater ); Essay: Wolfram Eilenberger , Le temps des magiciens (original title: Zeit der Zauberer: The great decade of philosophy 1919–1929 )
- Prix européen de l'essai Charles Veillon : Siri Hustvedt
- Prix Femina : Novel: Sylvain Prudhomme for Par les routes ; Foreign novel: Manuel Vilas for Ordesa (German: Die Reise nach Ordesa ); Essay: Emmanuelle Lambert for Giono, furioso
- Prix Françoise Sagan : Sophie Blandinières for Le sort tomba sur le plus jeune
- Prix Goncourt : Novel: Jean-Paul Dubois for Tous les hommes n'habitent pas le monde de la même façon ; Biography: Frédéric Pajak for Manifeste incertain, volume 7 ; Short story: Caroline Lamarche for Nous sommes à la lisière ; Seal: Yvon Le Men
- Prix Hommage visionnaire : Daniel Sernine
- Prix Imaginales (selection): Best French novel: Robert Darvel for Femmes d'argile et d'osier ; Best foreign language novel: Anna Starobinets for Refuge 3/9
- Prix Jacques-Brossard : Dave Côté ; Youth novel: Véronique Drouin for Cassandra Mittens et la touche divine
- Prix Joël-Champetier : Chloé Jo Bertrand for Chasseuse de soleil
- Prix Julia-Verlanger : Tade Thomson for Les Meurtres de Molly Southbourne
- Prix Médicis : Novel: Luc Lang for La Tentation ; Foreign novel: Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir for Miss Islande ; Essay: Bulle Ogier and Anne Diatkine for J'ai oublié
- Prix Monte-Cristo : Émilie de Turckheim for L'Enlèvement des Sabines
- Prix Rambert : Michel Layaz for Sans Silke
- Prix Renaudot : Sylvain Tesson for La Panthère des neiges
- Prix Solaris : Natasha Beaulieu for Ici
- Prix Utopiales européen : Christian Léourier for Helstrid ; Young adult literature: Maiwenn Alix for In real life - T.1 Déconnexion ; Special prize: Alejandro Jodorowsky
- Prometheus Award : Best Novel: Travis JI Corcoran for Causes of Separation
- Pulitzer Prizes (selection): Fiction: Richard Powers for The Overstory ( The Roots of Life )
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- R.
- Rhysling Award : Short form: Beth Cato for After Her Brother Ripped the Heads from Her Paper Dolls ; Long form: Sarah Tolmie for Ursula Le Guin in the Underworld
- Robert W. Bingham Prize : Will Mackin
- Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize : André Alexis for Days by Moonlight
- Swedish Radio Novel Prize : Sara Stridsberg for Kärleken Antarktis
- Rooney Prize for Irish Literature : Mark O'Connell for To Be a Machine
- Runeberg Prize : Heikki Kännö for Sömnö
- S.
- Saarland Children's and Young People's Book Prize : Anca Sturm for Der Welten-Express
- Sait Faik Literature Prize : Melisa Kesmez
- Salam Award for Imaginative Fiction : Kehkashan Khalid for The Puppetmaster
- Schaduwprijs : Erik Betten for Quarantaine
- Scotiabank Giller Prize : Ian Williams for Reproduction
- Seiun Prize (selection): Best Japanese novel: Hirotaka Tobi for Reigōkin ; Best foreign language novel: Peter Tieryas for Mecha Samurai Empire
- Selma Lagerlöf Prize : Kristina Sandberg
- SFPA Poetry Contest : Shortest form: Angela Yuriko Smith: Dark Matters ; Short form: Holly Lyn Walrath: The Fox and the Forest ; Long form: Holly Lyn Walrath: The Mining Town
- SFWA Grand Master Award : William Gibson
- Shamus Award (selection): Best novel: Kristen Lepionka for What You Want to See ; Best First Novel: Katrina Carrasco for The Best Bad Things ; Best novel as original paperback: Max Wirestone for The Questionable Behavior of Dahlia Moss
- Sheikh Zayed Book Award : Bensalem Himmich for The Self: Between Existence and Creation
- Shirley Jackson Award (selection): Novel: Catriona Ward for Little Eve ; Short novel: Cristina Rivera Garza for The Taiga Syndrome
- Sidewise Award : Long Form: Mary Robinette Kowal for The Calculating Stars ; Short Form: Oscar (Xiu) Ramirez and Emmanuel Valtierra for Codex Valtierra ; Special Achievement: Eric Flint for the 1632 series
- Scandinavian detective award : Stina Jackson for dark summer
- Skylark Award : Melinda Snodgrass
- Socratesbeker : Ad Verbrugge , Govert Buijs and Jelle van Baardewijk for Het goede leven en de vrije markt
- Somerset Maugham Award : Raymond Antrobus for The Perseverance ; Damian Le Bas for The Stopping Places ; Phoebe Power for Shrines of Upper Austria ; Nell Stevens for Mrs Gaskell and Me
- Søren Gyldendal Prize : Kim Leine
- Stig Dagerman Prize : Britta Marakatt-Labba
- Stonewall Book Award (selection): Literature: Rebecca Makkai for The Great Believers
- Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction : Jane Delury for Literature
- Sunburst Award : Adults: Andromeda Romano Lax for Plum Rains ; Teens: Rachel Hartman for Tess of the Road ; Short story: Senaa Ahmad for The Glow-in-the-Dark Girls
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- Takami Jun Prize : Tokisato Jirō for Naijima
- Tanizaki Jun'ichirō Prize : Murata Kiyoko for Hizoku
- Taras Shevchenko Prize : Oksana Sabuschko for І знов я влізаю в танк… (German. And again I step into the tank… )
- The Kitschies : Best Novel: Madeline Miller for Circe ; Best debut: Ahmed Saadawi for Frankenstein in Baghdad
- Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award : Annalee Newitz for When Robot and Crew Saved East St. Louis
- Tollanderska priset : Tuva Korsström
- Czech State Prize for Literature : Karol Sidon
- Tucholsky Prize (Sweden) : Gui Minhai
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- W.
- Walter Scott Prize : Robin Robertson for The Long Take
- Wielki caliber : Robert Małecki for Skaza ; Honorary Award: Bernard Minier ; Audience award: Wojciech Chmielarz for Żmijowisko
- Wisława Szymborska Prize : Marta Podgórnik for Mordercze ballad
- Wolfson History Prize : Mary Fulbrook for Reckonings: Legacies of Nazi Persecution and the Quest for Justice
- Women's Prize for Fiction : Tayari Jones for An American Marriage
- World Fantasy Award (selection): Novel: CL Polk for Witchmark ; Life's work: Hayao Miyazaki and Jack Zipes
Related awards and honors
- Berlin Publishing Prize: Main Prize (divided): Berenberg Verlag and Verbrecher Verlag ; Sponsorship awards: edition.fotoTAPETA and KOOKbooks
- German reading award : Nazan Eckes
- German publishing price : Top prices: Hädecke Verlag , kookbooks , Spector Book
- Honorary award from the Austrian book trade for tolerance in thought and action : Francesca Melandri
- European Fairy Tale Prize : German Fairy Tale and Weser Legends Museum Bad Oeynhausen
- Gutenberg Prize of the City of Leipzig : Fonts for Freedom
- Jörg Henle Prize for literary criticism : Jutta Person
- Max Herrmann Prize : Bara'a Al-Bayati, Iraq, and Freshta Karim, Afghanistan
- Bang! - The Munich Comic Prize (selection): Best German-language comic: Flix for Spirou in Berlin ; Best European comic: Mathieu Sapin for Gérard - Five years at Depardieu's skirt
- Prize of the literary houses : Antje Rávic Strubel
- Prize of the Book Art Foundation : Felix Holler, Jaroslaw Kubiak and Daniel Wittner: Name Weapon Stern (Institute for Book Art, Leipzig)
- Prix Voltaire : Khaled Lutfi
- Serafina : Lucia Zamolo for red is beautiful
- Translator bar : Christiansen bookstore, Hamburg
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ Bedey Media takes over Dryas Verlag in Frankfurt , announcement on BuchMarkt.de of January 31, 2019, accessed on June 7, 2019.
- ↑ Random House publishing group takes over Anaconda , report on Börsenblatt.net, accessed on June 24, 2019.
- ↑ Book chains Thalia and Mayersche want to merge , deutschlandfunkkultur.de, published and accessed on January 10, 2019
- ↑ Megafusion im Buchhandel , boersenblatt.net, published and accessed on January 10, 2019
- ↑ knv.de - press release on filing for insolvency , accessed on February 14, 2019.
- ↑ Berlin: Duncker & Humblot takes over Deutsche Betriebswirte-Verlag , report on BuchMarkt.de from April 1, 2019, accessed on June 7, 2019.
- ↑ De Gruyter takes over Klaus Schwarz Verlag , notification on BuchMarkt.de of March 27, 2019, accessed on June 7, 2019.
- ↑ Pons does not take over Langenscheidt employees , article in Tagesspiegel of April 29, 2019, accessed on June 7, 2019.
- ↑ Zeitfracht takes over KNV , report on Buchmarkt.de from June 26, 2019, accessed on June 26, 2019.
- ↑ Literature on the park bench , accessed on June 29, 2019.
- ↑ Reduced VAT on e-books , report on Börsenblatt.net of July 31, 2019, accessed on July 31, 2019.
- ↑ DEAL and Springer Nature achieve negotiation success , report on Börsenblatt.net from August 22, 2019, accessed on August 27, 2019.
- ↑ lit.Ruhr , accessed on August 20, 2019.
- ↑ New texts by Proust , article on Börsenblatt.net of August 7, 2019, accessed on August 12, 2019.
- ↑ "Lighthouses of our diverse literary landscape" - winner of the first German Publishing Award , report from September 17, 2019 on Börsenblatt.net, accessed on September 28, 2019.
- ↑ Literaturhaus Europa invites you to the 11th European Literature Days , reference to Buchmarkt.de on July 9, 2019, accessed on August 28, 2019.
- ↑ "Literatur unter Strom": VS wird 50 , boersenblatt.net, published and accessed on January 9, 2019
- ↑ The VS turns 50 - and is not a bit quiet. , verdi.de, accessed on January 9, 2019