Fantastic Literature Prize Seraph

The Seraph is a genre- specific literature prize for German-language fantasy literature. It has been awarded annually since 2012 at the Leipzig Book Fair . The carrier is the Fantastic Academy e. V. based in Mannheim .

Literature Prize

All titles published in the respective calendar year can be submitted for the Seraph in the “Best Fantastic Novel” (Best Book) category. For the second category, the “Best Debut”, the first independent novel publications by German-speaking authors can be submitted. This young talent award is endowed with 2000 euros.

From 2012 to 2015, Stadtwerke Leipzig was the main sponsor of the award. The Leipzig Book Fair has supported the Fantastic Academy as a sponsor since 2016 . In the same year, the “Best Indie Author” was awarded for the first time in cooperation with neobooks .

In 2020, the award ceremony could not take place there due to the cancellation of the Leipzig Book Fair. Instead, the winners were announced in a live stream on Twitch , moderated by Tommy Krappweis . Upon request, Twitch stated that over 3,800 people with accounts had followed the award ceremony.

Further conditions of participation

• It is a neat publication with ISBN .
• The publication may not have been published by a printing subsidy publisher. Self-published publications can only be submitted in the "Best independent title" category.
• The minimum reading age is 14 years (no children's books ).
• It cannot be short stories, anthologies or volumes of poetry.
• For series titles , a maximum of one title in the series may be submitted.
• Five titles may be submitted per publisher and category.

Electoral process

The Seraph is a jury award. The jury consists of around 20 people (21 members in 2018), who are nominated anew every year. In addition to publishing editors, journalists, book bloggers and authors are also represented. Interested readers can apply for the place of the readers' jury. The Fantastic Academy selects titles for the long list from all submissions. From this, the jury selects the titles for the short list in a voting process . The winners will be announced at the Leipzig Book Fair.

Award winners

Best Fantastic Novel (Best Book)

• 2012 Christian von Aster : The Last Shadow Carver ( ISBN 978-3-608-93917-0 )
• 2013 Kai Meyer : Ashes and Phönix ( ISBN 978-3-551-58291-1 )
• 2014 Ju Honisch : Swings made of stone ( ISBN 978-3-86762-170-0 )
• 2015 Kai Meyer : The Pages of the World ( ISBN 978-3-8414-2165-4 )
• 2016 Nina Blazon : The Winter of Black Roses ( ISBN 978-3-570-16364-1 )
• 2017 Katharina Seck : The silver queen ( ISBN 978-340420862-3 )
• 2018 Michael Marrak : The Canon of Mechanical Souls ( ISBN 978-3-95869-257-2 )
• 2019 Bernhard Hennen : The Chronicles of Azuhr - The Cursed ( ISBN 978-3-596-29726-9 )
• 2020 Christoph Marzi : Midnight ( ISBN 978-3-492-28090-7 )

Best debut

• 2012 Nina Maria Marewski : The Moldau in the closet. ( ISBN 978-3-03762-015-1 )
• 2013 Mechthild Gläser : City of deception and shadow. ( ISBN 978-3-7855-7402-7 ) and Jan Oldenburg : Fantastik AG ( ISBN 978-3-492-70257-7 )
• 2014 Katharina Hartwell : The foreign sea. ( ISBN 978-3-8270-1137-4 )
• 2015 Akram El-Bahay : Flaming Desert . ( ISBN 978-3-404-20756-5 )
• 2016 Daniel Illger : Skargat. ( ISBN 978-3-608-94642-0 )
• 2017 Julia Lange : Wisp of light. ( ISBN 978-3-42651943-1 )
• 2018 Theresa Hannig : The Optimizers . ( ISBN 978-3-404208876 )
• 2019 Kris Brynn : The Shelter - Future Without Hope. ( ISBN 978-3-7325-5777-6 )
• 2020 Bijan Moini The Cube ( ISBN 978-3-85535-059-9 )

Best independent title

• 2016 Hanna Kuhlmann : Nightshade. ( ISBN 978-3-7380-5468-2 )
• 2018 Janna Ruth : Under the spell of the shoes that were danced to pieces. ( ISBN 978-3-96111-467-2 )
• 2019 Birgit Jaeckel : The legacy of the Rauhnacht. ( ISBN 978-3-7528-3994-4 )
• 2020 Erik Kellen and Mira Valentin : Windherz ( ISBN 978-3-748112167 )

Web links

• Homepage of the Fantastic Academy
• Seraph - New jury award for fantastic literature. In: buchmarkt News. July 8, 2011

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Indie Author Award 2016 ( Memento of the original from April 22, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on neobooks.com, accessed March 21, 2016. 
2. ↑ ^{a b c d e f} Seraph 2017. (No longer available online.) 2017, archived from the original on January 18, 2017 ; accessed on January 17, 2017 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (no longer available)  
3. ↑ Fantastic Academy awards indie SERAPH 2018. Accessed on July 21, 2019 . 
4. ↑ phantastische-akademie.de