Price of the bookworms
The Bookworms' Prize was a literary prize initiated by the editorial team of the ZDF youth program Schüler-Express . The prize was awarded without any adult participation and survived the program by 5 years (until 1992).
Award winners
- Klaus Kordon , for With your back to the wall
- Peter Härtling , for crutch
- Simon Schott , for The Portrait of Alice Famworth
- Jan de Zanger , for Then by force
- 1979: Diana Wynne Jones , for Charmed Life
- 1980: Michael Ende , for The Neverending Story
- 1980: Dietrich Seiffert, don't lose face
- 1981: Gudrun Pausewang , for I'm Hungry - I'm Thirsty ; Otto Steiger
- 1982: Katherine Paterson ; Myron Levoy , for The Yellow Bird
- 1983: Wolfgang Hohlbein
- 1984: Otti Pfeiffer ; Morton Rhue , for The Wave
- 1985: Jürgen Banscherus , for No Suspenders for Oya
- 1986: Urs M. Fiechtner , for Anna's story
- 1986: Reinhold Ziegler , for There are only two directions here, Mister ; Federica de Cesco
- 1987: Urs M. Fiechtner , for Mario Rosas
- 1987: Rafik Schami , for A Hand Full of Stars
- 1988: Werner J. Egli
- 1989: Michael Ende - Special award on the occasion of the 10th anniversary of the award for Der Wunschpunsch
- 1990: Rudolf Herfurtner , for human rabbit ; Sigbert E. Kluwe , for Glücksvogel ; Carlo Ross , for Only thoughts are free / Michel in a vicious circle
- 1991: Urs M. Fiechtner , for stories from no man's land
- 1991: Monika Feth , for And what about me?
- 1992: Andreas Vollstädt , for the translation of the novel Mein Land unter Wasser by Jean-Côme Noguès