Our Award-Winning Authors 2014 - A Selection

News
26.11.2014

We congratulate:

Juri Andruchowytsch: Hannah Arendt Prize
Jürgen Becker: Georg Büchner Prize
Marcel Beyer: Kleist Prize; Oskar Pastior Prize
Lily Brett: Prix Médicis Étranger
Ann Cotten: Adelbert von Chamisso Prize
Ulrike Edschmid: Johann Friedrich von Cotta Literaturpreis
Nuruddin Farah: South African Lifetime Achievement Award
Juan Goytisolo: Premio Miguel de Cervantes
Peter Handke: International Ibsen Award
Heinz Helle: Literaturpreis des Kantons Bern
Maylis de Kerangal: Grand Prix de Littérature Henri Gal
Phil Klay: National Book Award
Alexander Kluge: Heine Prize
György Konrád: Buber Rosenzweig Medal
Jaron Lanier: Friedenspreis des deutschen Buchhandels
Christian Lehnert: Hölty Prize for Poetry
Robert Menasse: Max Frisch Prize
Pankaj Mishra: Leipzig Book Award for European Understanding
Patrick Modiano: Nobel Prize for Literature
Evan Osnos: National Book Award
Amos Oz: Siegfried Lenz Prize
Katja Petrowskaja: »aspekte« Literaturpreis
Dana Ranga: Adelbert von Chamisso Förderpreis
Ralf Rothmann: Kunst- und Kulturpreis der deutschen Katholiken
Peter Schäfer: Dr. Leopold Lucas Prize
Judith Schalansky: Preis der Literaturhäuser
Robert Schindel: Heinrich Mann Prize
Lutz Seiler: German Book Prize; Uwe Johnson Prize
Stephan Thome: Kunstpreis Literatur der Akademie der Künste
Michael Tomasello: Helmuth Plessner Prize
Tomas Venclova: Petrarca Prize
Serhij Zhadan: Jan Michalski Prize


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Ann Cotten

Ann Cotten, born in Iowa in 1982, grew up in Vienna. She has been living in Berlin since 2006. In 2011, she spent four months in Nagoya, Japan. For her first poetry collection, Fremdwörterbuchsonette (2007), she was awarded the Reinhard Preissnitz Prize and the Clemens Brentano Prize for Literature of the City of Heidelberg. For Florida-Räume (2010) she received the Hermann Hesse Literature Prize. In 2014, Ann Cotten was awarded the Adelbert von Chamisso Prize; in 2015, she was the first recipient of the newly founded Klopstock Prize for Contemporary Literature. In 2017, she was awarded the Hugo-Ball-Prize for her oeuvre.

Ann Cotten, born in Iowa in 1982, grew up in Vienna. She has been living in Berlin since 2006. In 2011, she spent four months in Nagoya, Japan....

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Heinz Helle

Heinz Helle was born in 1978. He studied philosophy in Munich and New York. He has worked as a copywriter for advertising agencies and is a graduate of the Swiss Literature Institute in Biel. He was longlisted for the German Book Prize 2015 for his second novel, Eigentlich müssten wir tanzen. For his novel Die Überwindung der Schwerkraft he was awarded the Förderpreis zum Bremer Literaturpreis 2019 and was shortlisted for the Swiss Book Prize 2018. He lives in Zurich with his wife, writer Julia Weber, and their two daughters.
Heinz Helle was born in 1978. He studied philosophy in Munich and New York. He has worked as a copywriter for advertising agencies and is a graduate...
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Peter Handke

Peter Handke, born in 1942 in Griffen, Austria, lives near Paris. His books have been translated into more than 40 languages. In 2019, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.

Peter Handke, born in 1942 in Griffen, Austria, lives near Paris. His books have been translated into more than 40 languages. In 2019, he was...

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