Most unusual book title of the year
The most unusual book title of the year is a literary prize that has been awarded annually since 2013 at the Leipzig Book Fair for the previous year. The decision is made by an expert jury and readers via the What do you read? , the online book community of Mayersche Buchhandlung .
Details
The award was based on the 1979 British awarded Bookseller / Diagram Prize for Oddest Title of the Year initiated, similar to that at the Frankfurt Book Fair awarded oddest book title of the year .
The prize winner is chosen by the online book community “What are you reading?” At Mayersche Buchhandlung and a jury of experts. In a three-stage process, a longlist is first drawn up, from which a ten-book shortlist is created by means of online voting , from which the jury of experts selects the winner. The laureate receives a trophy and a surprise prize.
Award winners
2013
- The girl with the pipe in her ear and the boy with the spoon in her throat by Volker Strübing (Verlag Voland & Quist )
2014
- We are happy, the corners of our mouths point into the starry night like Angela Merkel does when she does a handstand by Thomas Spitzer (Verlag periplaneta )
2015
- Giving up is not the solution. Except for packages from Patrick Salmen and Quichotte (Verlag Lektora )
2016
- Falling down is like leaning on, only later by Sebastian 23 (Verlag Lektora)
2017
- When Grandma still cooked pigeon soup for the whores by Anna Basener ( Eichborn Verlag )
2018
- It has 18 letters and nine of them are Ys by Henrik Szanto (Verlag Lektora)
website
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Most unusual book title of 2016 . In: Börsenblatt , March 27, 2017. Retrieved December 2, 2019.
- ↑ Most unusual book title of 2013 (shortlist) . In: What are you reading? , Online book community of Mayersche Buchhandlung . Retrieved December 2, 2019.
- ↑ Most unusual book title of 2014 (shortlist) . In: What are you reading? , Online book community of Mayersche Buchhandlung . Retrieved December 2, 2019.
- ↑ Thomas Spitzer : Goethe, Schiller, Chinakohl: As a humorous ambassador in the land of smiles , section About the author . Bastei Lübbe, 2016.
- ↑ Most unusual book title of 2015 (shortlist) . In: What are you reading? , Online book community of Mayersche Buchhandlung . Retrieved December 2, 2019.
- ↑ Most unusual book title of 2015 . In: Börsenblatt , March 21, 2016. Accessed December 2, 2019.
- ↑ Most unusual book title of 2016 (shortlist) . In: What are you reading? , Online book community of Mayersche Buchhandlung . Retrieved December 2, 2019.
- ↑ Most unusual book title of 2017 chosen . Mayersche Buchhandlung website , March 2018. Accessed December 2, 2019
- ↑ "Most unusual book title of 2018" awarded . In: What are you reading? , Magazine of Mayersche Buchhandlung . The book title refers to “Hyppytyynytyydytys”, a Finnish made-up word that describes the joy one feels when jumping around on pillows. Retrieved December 2, 2019.