The City of Leipzig awards the Leipzig Book Award for European Understanding (Leipziger Buchpreis zur Europäischen Verständigung) which has been given since 1994.[1][2] The award is endowed with prize money of 20,000 euros and is presented every year during the official opening of the Leipzig Book Fair.[1]
Recipients
- 1994: Ryszard Kapuściński (Poland)
- 1994: Eckhard Thiele (Germany)
- 1995: Péter Nádas (Hungary)
- 1995: Svetlana Geier (Germany)
- 1996: Aleksandar Tišma (Serbia)
- 1996: Fritz Mierau (Germany)
- 1997: Imre Kertész (Hungary)
- 1997: Antonín J. Liehm (Czech Republic)
- 1998: Svetlana Alexievich (Belarus)
- 1998: Ilma Rakusa (Switzerland)
- 1998: Andreas Tretner (Germany)
- 1999: Eric Hobsbawm (United Kingdom)
- 1999: Nenad Popović (Serbia)
- 2000: Hanna Krall (Poland)
- 2000: Peter Urban (Germany)
- 2001: Claudio Magris (Italy)
- 2001: Norbert Randow (Germany)
- 2002: Bora Ćosić (Serbia)
- 2002: Ludvík Kundera (Czech Republic)
- 2003: Hugo Claus (Belgium)
- 2003: Barbara Antkowiak (Germany)
- 2004: Dževad Karahasan (Bosnia and Herzegovina)
- 2004: Gábor Csordás (Hungary)
- 2005: Slavenka Drakulić (Croatia)
- 2006: Yurii Andrukhovych (Ukraine)
- 2007: Gerd Koenen (Germany)
- 2007: Michail Ryklin (Russia)
- 2008: Geert Mak (Netherlands)
- 2009: Karl Schlögel (Germany)
- 2010: György Dalos (Hungary)
- 2011: Martin Pollack (Austria)
- 2012: Ian Kershaw (United Kingdom)
- 2012: Timothy D. Snyder (United States)
- 2013: Klaus-Michael Bogdal (Germany)
- 2014: Pankaj Mishra (India)
- 2015: Mircea Cărtărescu (Romania)[5]
- 2016: Heinrich August Winkler (Germany)
- 2017: Mathias Énard (France)
- 2018: Åsne Seierstad (Norway)
- 2019: Masha Gessen (United States/Russia)[6]
- 2020: László F. Földényi (Hungary)[7]
- 2021: Johnny Pitts (United Kingdom/United States)[8][9]
- 2022: Karl-Markus Gauß (Austria)[10]
- 2023: Maria Stepanova (Russia)[11]
- 2024: Omri Boehm (Germany/Israel)[12]
- 2025: Alhierd Bacharevič (Belarus)[13]
- 2026: Miljenko Jergović (Croatia/Bosnia)[14]
References
- 1 2 3 "Leipzig Book Award for European Understanding". City of Leipzig. Archived from the original on 22 September 2024. Retrieved 9 December 2016.
- ↑ "Kulturpreise.de : Leipziger Buchpreis zur Europäischen Verständigung". Handbuch der Kulturpreise – Handbook of Cultural Awards (in German). Archived from the original on 7 January 2021. Retrieved 4 January 2021.
- ↑ "Leipziger Buchpreis zur Europäischen Verständigung". Stadt Leipzig (in German). Archived from the original on 26 March 2019. Retrieved 4 January 2021.
- ↑ "Leipziger Buchpreis". Literaturpreis Gewinner (in German). 28 July 2011. Archived from the original on 22 September 2024. Retrieved 4 January 2021.
- ↑ "Leipziger Buchpreis zur Europäischen Verständigung geht an Mircea Cartarescu". LVZ – Leipziger Volkszeitung (in German). 5 December 2014. Retrieved 4 January 2021.
- ↑ "Masha Gessen erhält Leipziger Buchpreis zur Europäischen Verständigung". Zeit Online (in German). Archived from the original on 22 September 2024. Retrieved 4 January 2021.
- ↑ Fitzek; Rossmann; Link; Suter; Heidenreich (5 December 2019). "Leipziger Buchpreis zur Europäischen Verständigung geht an László Földényi". buchreport (in German). Archived from the original on 6 January 2021. Retrieved 4 January 2021.
- ↑ "Leipziger Buchpreis zur Europäischen Verständigung für Johny Pitts". mdr.de (in German). 8 December 2020. Retrieved 4 January 2021.
- ↑ "Johny Pitts erhält Leipziger Buchpreis zur Europäischen Verständigung – Kultur". Der Spiegel (in German). 8 December 2020. Archived from the original on 3 January 2021. Retrieved 4 January 2021.
- ↑ "Leipziger Buchpreis zur Europäischen Verständigung: Karl-Markus Gauß wird ausgezeichnet". Der Spiegel (in German). 6 December 2021. Archived from the original on 6 December 2021. Retrieved 6 December 2021.
- ↑ "Leipzig: Maria Stepanova erhält Buchpreis zur Europäischen Verständigung 2023". MDR.DE (in German). 7 December 2022. Archived from the original on 7 December 2022. Retrieved 7 December 2022.
- ↑ "Omri Boehm wird mit Leipziger Buchpreis zur Europäischen Verständigung geehrt". Der Spiegel (in German). 18 December 2023. Archived from the original on 18 December 2023. Retrieved 19 December 2023.
- ↑ "Bisherige Preisträger". boersenverein-sasathue.de (in German). Retrieved 8 December 2025.
- ↑ "Leipziger Buchpreis zur Europäischen Verständigung geht an Miljenko Jergović". deutschlandfunkkultur.de, 8 December 2025 (in German). Retrieved 8 December 2025.
External links
- Official website (in English and German)