The end of the year is a good time to do a round-up of winners of this year’s major German literary prizes. We have featured these in the last two years on “In the spotlight” pages on our website (2011 and 2012) and continue to use them to guide our acquisitions policy for modern literature.
Georg-Büchner-Preis, awarded by the Deutsche Akademie für Sprache und Dichtung in Darmstadt, a prestigious prize with a long history of recognising important German language authors for their contribution to German cultural life, has been won by Sibylle Lewitscharoff. Please see here for our holdings of her works. See here for further information.
Deutscher Buchpreis, awarded by the Börsenverein des Deutschen Buchhandels in Frankfurt am Main, is a relatively new prize, first awarded in 2005 and regarded as the German equivalent of the Man Booker prize. It has been won this year by Terezia Mora for her novel Das Ungeheuer (C207.c.7548).
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