Prize of the Leipzig Book Fair / Fiction

Award winner 2019: Anke Stelling

Winner and nominated authors for the Leipzig Book Fair Prize in the fiction category . The award has been presented at the Leipzig Book Fair since 2005 . The award is endowed with 15,000 euros for the award-winning author, with an additional 1,000 euros for each nominee (status: 2019).

Award winners

The most popular awards were novels by authors with German nationality (13 victories, including writers with dual nationality such as Terézia Mora , Saša Stanišić or Natascha Wodin ), followed by Austria (one victory for Clemens J. Setz ). So far, no writer has won the award more than once. On two nominations come Sherko Fatah (2008 and 2012), Wilhelm Genazino (2007 and 2009), Wolfgang Herrendorf (2011 and 2012), Georg Klein (2010 and 2018), Clemens Meyer (2006 and 2008) and Anne Weber (2010, 2017), but only Herrndorf, Klein and Meyer could win the award once.

In 2015 a volume of poetry was awarded for the first time with Jan Wagner's rain barrel variations , while Werner Bräunig was posthumously nominated for fairground in 2007.

The publishers with the most award winners are Rowohlt and Suhrkamp (four wins each), followed by Hanser and Luchterhand (two successes each).

year	Prize winner	title	publishing company
2005	Terézia Mora	All days	Luchterhand
	Christoph Hein	A garden in his early childhood	Suhrkamp
	Eva Menasse	Vienna!	Kiepenheuer & Witsch
	Karl-Heinz Ott	Finally silence	Hoffmann and Campe
	Uwe Tellkamp	The kingfisher	Rowohlt
2006	Ilija Trojanow	The world collector	Hanser
	Judith Kuckart	Kaiserstrasse	DuMont
	Thomas Lang	On the rope	CH Beck
	Paul Ingendaay	Why you left me	SchirmerGraf
	Clemens Meyer	When we were dreaming	S. Fischer
2007	Ingo Schulze	Mobile phone. Thirteen stories in the old fashion	Berlin publishing house
	Werner Bräunig (posthumous)	Fairground	construction
	Wilhelm Genazino	Mediocre homesickness	Hanser
	Wolfgang Schlueter	Grace and grace	Eichborn / The other library
	Antje Rávic Strubel	Colder layers of air	S. Fischer
2008	Clemens Meyer	The night, the lights	S. Fischer
	Jenny Erpenbeck	visitation	Eichborn
	Sherko Fatah	The dark ship	Young and old
	Ulrich Peltzer	Part of the solution	Ammann
	Feridun Zaimoglu	Love brand	Kiepenheuer & Witsch
2009	Sibylle Lewitscharoff	Apostoloff	Suhrkamp
	Wilhelm Genazino	Happiness in times far from happiness	Hanser
	Reinhard Jirgl	The silence	Hanser
	Daniel Kehlmann	Fame. A novel in nine stories	Rowohlt
	Andreas Maier	Sanssouci	Suhrkamp
	Julia Schoch	At the speed of summer	Piper
2010	Georg Klein	Novel of our childhood	Rowohlt
	Jan factor	Georg's worries about the past or In the realm of the holy scrotum-trumpet of Prague	Kiepenheuer & Witsch
	Helene Hegemann	Axolotl Roadkill	Ullstein
	Lutz Seiler	The timing machine	Suhrkamp
	Anne Weber	Air and love	S. Fischer
2011	Clemens J. Setz	Love at the time of the Mahlstadt child	Suhrkamp
	Anna Katharina Fröhlich	Kream Korner	Berlin publishing house
	Arno Geiger	The old king in his exile	Hanser
	Wolfgang Herrndorf	Tschick	Rowohlt
	Peter Stamm	Sea back	S. Fischer
2012	Wolfgang Herrndorf	sand	Rowohlt
	Anna Katharina Hahn	On the Black Mountain	Suhrkamp
	Thomas von Steinaecker	The year I stopped worrying and started dreaming	S. Fischer
	Sherko Fatah	A white land	Luchterhand
	Jens Sparschuh	In the box	Kiepenheuer & Witsch
2013	David Wagner	Life	Rowohlt
	Ralph Dohrmann	Kronhardt	Ullstein
	Lisa Kränzler	Afterwards	Criminal Publishing House
	Birk Meinhardt	brothers and sisters	Hanser
	Anna Weidenholzer	Winter is good for the fish	Residenz Verlag
2014	Saša Stanišić	Before the party	Luchterhand
	Fabian Hischmann	In the end, we throw gold	Berlin publishing house
	Per Leo	Flood and soil: a family novel	Velcro cotta
	Martin Mosebach	The beech festival	Hanser
	Katja Petrovskaya	Maybe Esther	Suhrkamp
2015	Jan Wagner	Rain barrel variations. Poems	Hanser
	Ursula Ackrill	Zeiden, in January	Wagenbach
	Teresa Preauer	Johnny and Jean	Wallstein
	Norbert Scheuer	The language of the birds	CH Beck
	Michael Wildenhain	The alligators smile	Velcro cotta
2016	Guntram Vesper	Frohburg	Schöffling & Co.
	Marion Poschmann	Borrowed Landscapes. Didactic poems and elegies	Suhrkamp
	Roland Schimmelpfennig	On a clear, freezing January morning at the beginning of the 21st century	S. Fischer
	Nis-Momme Stockmann	The Fox	Rowohlt
	Heinz Strunk	The golden glove	Rowohlt
2017	Natascha Wodin	She came from Mariupol	Rowohlt
	Lukas Bärfuss	Hagard	Wallstein
	Brigitte Kronauer	The Sheik of Aachen	Velcro cotta
	Steffen Popp	118	Kookbooks
	Anne Weber	Kirio	S. Fischer
2018	Esther Kinsky	Hain: Terrain novel	Suhrkamp
	Isabel Fargo Cole	The green border	Edition Nautilus
	Anja Kampmann	How high the waters rise	Hanser
	Georg Klein	Miaco	Rowohlt
	Matthias Senkel	Dark numbers	Matthes & Seitz
2019	Anke Stelling	Sheep in the dry	Criminal Publishing House
	Kenah Cusanit	Babel	Hanser
	Matthias Nawrat	The sad guest	Rowohlt
	Jaroslav Rudiš	Winterberg's last trip	Luchterhand
	Feridun Zaimoglu	The story of the woman	Kiepenheuer & Witsch
2020	Lutz Seiler	Star 111	Suhrkamp
	Verena Güntner	power	DuMont
	Maren Kames	Luna Luna	Secession
	Leif Randt	Allegro pastel	Kiepenheuer & Witsch
	Ingo Schulze	The righteous killers	S. Fischer

See also

List of the winners and nominees of the German Book Prize

Web links

• Official archive of nominees and award winners

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The nominees for the Leipzig Book Prize have been determined. In: sz.de. February 11, 2020, accessed February 11, 2020 .