Petrarch Prize
The Petrarca Prize was named after Francesco Petrarca and founded by Hubert Burda , an international literary prize that was awarded to contemporary poets and translators from 1975 to 1999 and from 2010 to 2014 . The successor was the Hermann Lenz Prize from 1999 to 2009 , and the Petrarca Prize again from 2010 to 2014. From 1987 to 1995 there was also the Petrarch Translator Award for literary translations .
The first jury in 1975 included Bazon Brock , Nicolas Born , Peter Handke and Michael Krüger , and since 2010 Peter Handke, Michael Krüger, Alfred Kolleritsch and Peter Hamm have been the jury members. The endowment was 20,000 euros, which could be divided among several award winners.
Award winners
- 1975 Rolf Dieter Brinkmann
- 1976 Sarah Kirsch and Ernst Meister
- 1977 ( Herbert Achternbusch , the artist rejected the award)
- 1978 Alfred Kolleritsch
- 1979 Zbigniew Herbert
- 1980 Ludwig Hohl
- 1981 Tomas Tranströmmer
- 1982 Ilse Aichinger
- 1983 Gerhard Meier
- 1984 Gustav Januš
- 1987 Hermann Lenz
- 1988 Philippe Jaccottet
- 1989 Jan Skácel
- 1990 Paul Wühr
- 1991 John Berger
- 1992 Michael Hamburger
- 1993 Gennadij Ajgi
- 1994 Helmut Färber
- 1995 Les Murray
- 2010 Pierre Michon and Erri De Luca
- 2011 John Burnside and Florjan Lipuš
- 2012 Kito Lorenc and Miodrag Pavlović
- 2013 Adonis and Robin Robertson
- 2014 Franz Mon and Tomas Venclova
Petrarch Translator Award Winner
- 1987 Hanno Helbling
- 1988 Georg Rudolf Lind
- 1989 Felix Philipp Ingold
- 1990 Fabjan Hafner
- 1991 Ilma Rakusa
- 1993 Hanns Grössel
- 1994 Elisabeth Edl and Wolfgang Matz
- 1995 Verena Reichel