Literature Prize Alpha
The Alpha Literature Prize is an Austrian literature prize that was launched in 2010 by Casinos Austria together with the Vienna Libraries . The aim of the award is to offer a stage for young Austrian literature. The prize money is 10,000 euros. The prize is awarded once a year in autumn as part of a gala.
The literary prize supports local authors as well as authors who live in Austria or whose works have been published by an Austrian publisher. The submitted book must have appeared in German by the end of the submission deadline in May. In addition, the author concerned may only have published a maximum of three works, including the one submitted, not counting anthology contributions. The age of the submitter does not matter.
Award winners
- 2010: Thomas Stangl with his novel What is coming
- Shortlist:
- Anna Kim : The Frozen Time
- Richard Obermayr : The window
- Verena Roßbacher : Desire for dragons
- Clemens J. Setz : The frequencies
- Christine Wiesmüller : Summer freshness. Squaring the circle or a fragment
- Shortlist:
- 2011: Anna-Elisabeth Mayer with her novel flyweight
- Shortlist:
- Marjana Gaponenko : Annuschka Flower
- Martin Mandler : 23 days
- Angelika Reitzer : Between us
- Andreas Unterweger : You are my sea
- Shortlist:
- 2012: Milena Michiko Flašar with her novel I called him a tie
- Shortlist:
- Susanne Gregor : No place of its own
- Hinrich von Haaren : Brandhagen
- Christina Maria Landerl : Get out of town
- Lukas Meschik : Lucidin or the silence
- Mieze Medusa : Mia knife
- Julya Rabinowich : Herznovelle
- Angelika Reitzer : Between us
- Carolina Schutti : I must have walked over soft grass once
- Shortlist:
- 2013: Marjana Gaponenko with her novel Who is Martha?
- Shortlist:
- Barbara Aschenwald : Omka
- Harald Darer : Who sleeps with dogs
- Isabella Feimer : The Afghan Chef
- Valerie Fritsch : The world is my innards
- Hasan Ali Ider : Jihad for Lila
- Pyotr Magnus Nedov : Sugar Life
- Julya Rabinowich : The Earth Eater
- Cordula Simon : The Potemkin Dog
- Shortlist:
- 2014: Eva Menasse with her novel Quasikristalle
- Shortlist:
- Theodora Bauer : Aunt Meri's fur
- Christoph Dolgan : Existence of ballast
- Andrea Drumbl : Narcissus and Narcissus
- Margarita Kinstner : Mid- town noise
- Germán Kratochwil : Dish of the fragments
- Elke Laznia : childhood forest
- Roman Marchel : We were there
- Erwin Uhrmann : I am the future
- Daniel Wisser : A white elephant
- Shortlist:
- 2015: Karin Peschka with her novel Watschenmann
- Shortlist:
- Isabella Feimer : Time for something strange
- Valerie Fritsch : Winter's garden
- Sandra Gugić : astronauts
- Anna-Elisabeth Mayer : The dogs of Montpellier
- Gesa Olkusz : Legends
- Wolfgang Popp : The disappeared
- Richard Schuberth : Chronicle of a happy conspiracy
- Bernhard Strobel : A thin thread
- Shortlist:
- 2016: Barbi Marković with her novel Superheldinnen
- Final:
- Lydia Haider : Congregation
- Katharina Winkler : Blue jewelry
- Shortlist:
- Miriam Auer : Behind the times. Umnachtungsnovelle
- Anna Baar : The color of the pomegranate
- Martin Lechner : After five hundred and twenty ocean days
- Christoph Linher : Fern. A narration from the off
- Elisabeth Schmidauer : The green in Dora's eyes
- Hanna Sukare : tongue of dust
- Final:
- 2017: Marie Luise Lehner : Toadstools made of cork
- Final:
- Birgit Birnbacher : We without a whale
- Anna Weidenholzer : Why the gentlemen wear starfish
- Shortlist (without final):
- Paul Auer : Carinthian corner of the Ring
- Iris Blauensteiner : head tick
- Lydia Haider : rotten
- Simone Hirth : Song about the suitable place for an emergency shelter
- Andreas Kurz : The view from below through the treetop into the sky
- Cordula Simon : How to sleep
- Final:
- 2018: Iris Wolff : Pretend it's raining
- Final:
- Theodora Bauer : Chicago
- Petra Piuk : Toni and Moni
- Shortlist (without final):
- Jürgen Bauer : A good person
- Laura Freudenthaler : The queen is silent
- Susanne Gregor : Under water
- Christoph Linher : Difficulty
- Mario Schlembach : Fog
- Verena Stauffer : Orchis
- Final:
- 2019: Angela Lehner : Our Father
- Final:
- Malte Borsdorf : flood area
- Martin Peichl : How to fix things
- Shortlist (without final):
- Marko Dinić : The good days
- Laura Freudenthaler : Ghost story
- Elisabeth R. Hager : Five days in May
- Martin Horvath : My name is Judith
- Bastian Kresser : The other side
- Tanja Raich : Jesolo
- Final:
jury
A preliminary jury of the Vienna Libraries, headed by the head of the main library Christian Jahl , the writer and librarian Rudolf Kraus and the librarian and editor Thomas Geldner , creates a shortlist of a total of 9 books from all of the submitted works, from which the winner is determined.
A jury of experts led by the writer and child psychiatrist Paulus Hochgatterer , the literary journalist Gabriele Madeja , author and musician Ernst Molden and Christian Jahl will determine the winner.
Author Josef Haslinger chaired the jury until 2013. Author and librarian Claudia Bitter was on the preliminary jury until 2014. Falter culture editor Klaus Nüchtern was on the expert jury until 2014.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ diepresse.com: Austrian Book Prize "Alpha": Shortlist is fixed . Article dated September 1, 2010, accessed September 3, 2017.
- ↑ Alpha 2011: Shortlist is fixed . OTS notification dated September 9, 2011, accessed September 3, 2017.
- ↑ Literature Prize Alpha: Shortlist is fixed . OTS news from August 17, 2012, accessed on September 3, 2017.
- ↑ Christina Maria Landerl: Leave the city - Schöffling & Co. Verlag. Retrieved September 8, 2017 .
- ↑ derStandard.at: Shortlist for alpha price is fixed . Article dated August 28, 2013, accessed September 3, 2017.
- ↑ derStandard.at - Eva Menasse wins Alpha Literature Prize . Article dated November 11, 2014, accessed November 11, 2014.
- ↑ Literature Prize Alpha 2014: Shortlist has been set . OTS news from September 11, 2014, accessed on September 3, 2017.
- ↑ orf.at - Karin Peschka wins Alpha Literature Prize . Article dated November 17, 2015, accessed November 18, 2015.
- ↑ Literature Prize Alpha 2015: the shortlist has been set . OTS notification dated September 11, 2015, accessed on September 3, 2017.
- ↑ orf.at - Barbi Markovic triumphs at the Alpha Literature Prize 2016 . Article dated October 27, 2016, accessed October 28, 2016.
- ↑ diepresse.com: Haider, Markovic and Winkler nominated for Alpha Literature Prize . Article dated September 26, 2016, accessed October 24, 2018.
- ↑ Literature Prize Alpha: Shortlist 2016 is fixed . Retrieved September 3, 2017.
- ↑ derStandard.at: Marie Luise Lehner receives Alpha Literature Prize . Article dated November 2, 2017, accessed November 3, 2017.
- ↑ Alpha Literature Prize 2017 will be decided between three authors . OTS announcement of October 4, 2017, accessed October 4, 2017.
- ↑ Shortlist for the Alpha 2017 Literature Prize has been set . OTS announcement of September 14, 2017, accessed on September 14, 2017.
- ↑ orf.at: Iris Wolff receives Alpha 2018 Literature Prize . Article dated October 23, 2018, accessed October 24, 2018.
- ↑ Three finalists in the running for the Alpha 2018 Literature Prize. September 20, 2018, accessed on September 20, 2018 .
- ^ Nine candidates for the Alpha 2018 Literature Prize . OTS notification dated August 27, 2018, accessed August 27, 2018.
- ↑ 10th Alpha Literature Prize: Three Works in the Final. September 26, 2019. Retrieved September 29, 2019 .
- ↑ Shortlist for the Alpha Literature Prize 2019 is set. August 29, 2019. Retrieved August 29, 2018 .