Leipzig Book Fair Prize - Award Winners

Award Winners

2005

  • Fiction: Terézia Mora, Alle Tage
  • Non-fiction: Rüdiger Safranski, Schiller oder die Erfindung des Deutschen Idealismus
  • Translation: Thomas Eichhorn, for Les Murray's Fredy Neptune

2006

  • Fiction: Ilija Trojanow, Der Weltensammler
  • Non-fiction: Franz Schuh, Schwere Vorwürfe. Schmutzige Wäsche
  • Translation: Ragni Maria Gschwend, for Antonio Moresco's Gli esordi

2007

  • Fiction: Ingo Schulze, Handy
  • Non-fiction: Saul Friedländer, Das Dritte Reich und die Juden 2. Die Jahre der Vernichtung 1939–1945 (in English: The Years of Extermination: Nazi Germany and the Jews, 1939-1945)
  • Translation: Swetlana Geier, for Fyodor Dostoyevsky's Подросток (English: The Raw Youth)

2008

  • Fiction: Clemens Meyer, Die Nacht, die Lichter
  • Non-fiction: Irina Liebmann, Wäre es schön? Es wäre schön!
  • Translation: Fritz Vogelgsang, for Joanot Martorell's Tirant lo Blanc

2009

  • Fiction: Sibylle Lewitscharoff, Apostoloff
  • Non-fiction: Herfried Münkler, Die Deutschen und ihre Mythen
  • Translation: Eike Schönfeld, for Saul Bellow's Humboldt's Gift

2010

  • Fiction: Georg Klein, Roman unserer Kindheit
  • Non-fiction: Ulrich Raulff, Kreis ohne Meister. Stefan Georges Nachleben
  • Translation: Ulrich Blumenbach, for David Foster Wallace's Unendlicher Spaß

2011

  • Fiction: Clemens J. Setz, Die Liebe zur Zeit des Mahlstädter Kindes
  • Non-fiction: Henning Ritter, Notizhefte
  • Translation: Barbara Conrad, for Leo Tolstoy's War and Peace

2012

  • Fiction: Wolfgang Herrndorf, Sand
  • Non-fiction: Jörg Baberowski, Verbrannte Erde. Stalins Herrschaft der Gewalt
  • Translation: Aus dem Ungarischen von Christina Viragh, for Péter Nádas's Parallelgeschichten

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