The Georg Büchner Prize is the most important literary prize for German language literature, along with the Goethe Prize. The award is named after dramatist and writer Georg Büchner, author of Woyzeck and Leonce and Lena. The Georg Büchner Prize is awarded annually for authors "writing in the German language who have notably emerged through their oeuvre as essential contributors to the shaping of contemporary German cultural life".
Paul Nizon is a Swiss art historian and writer.
Heinrich Heine Prize refers to three different awards named in honour of the 19th-century German poet Christian Johann Heinrich Heine:
Adolf Muschg is a Swiss writer and professor of literature. Muschg was a member of the Gruppe Olten.
The Erich Fried Prize is a literary prize in honour of the Austrian poet Erich Fried, and is awarded annually by the International Erich Fried Society for Literature and Language, based in Vienna. The value of the prize, endowed by the office of the Chancellor of Austria, is 15,600 euros. Each year the trustees of the Erich Fried Society select a juror, who nominates the winner of the prize for that year.
Durs Grünbein is a German poet and essayist.
Marcel Beyer is a German writer.
Friederike Mayröcker was an Austrian writer of poetry and prose, audio plays, children's books and dramatic texts. She experimented with language, and was regarded as an avantgarde poet, and as one of the leading authors in German. Her work, inspired by art, music, literature and everyday life, appeared as "novel and also dense text formations, often described as 'magical'." According to The New York Times, her work was "formally inventive, much of it exploiting the imaginative potential of language to capture the minutiae of daily life, the natural world, love and grief".
Ursula Krechel is a German writer.
Ann Cotten is an American-born Austrian writer.
The Calw Hermann Hesse Prize is a literary prize awarded since 1990. It is named after the German-Swiss poet, novelist, and painter Hermann Hesse. Alternating every year since 2017, the International Hermann Hesse Prize of the Foundation and the Hermann Hesse Prize of the International Hermann Hesse Society are awarded in Calw. The first prize is awarded for "a literary achievement of international standing in connection with its translation". The latter is intended to promote the examination of the work of the poet, who was born in Calw in 1877. In 2017, the first recipient was Adolf Muschg.
Franz-Hessel-Preis or Franz Hessel Prize for Contemporary Literature is a literary prize of France and Germany for French and German authors. The prize was created as a tribute to the writer and translator Franz Hessel.
Kranichsteiner Literaturpreis is a literary prize of Germany. The Deutsche Literaturfonds based in Darmstadt has been awarding the prize since 1983. The prize money was raised in 2019 from €20,000 to €30,000. In addition to the main prize, the Kranichsteiner Literaturförderpreis is also awarded. In 2020 the Deutsche Literaturfonds renamed the prize to Großer Preis des Deutschen Literaturfonds and the prize money has been raised to €50,000. It is awarded for an outstanding literary work, taking into account the current book.
Lutz Seiler is a German poet and novelist.
Gertrud Leutenegger is a German-speaking Swiss poet, novelist, playwright and theatre director.
Jan Wagner, is a German poet, essayist and translator, recipient of the Georg Büchner Prize and Leipzig Book Fair Prize.
Esther Kinsky is a German literary translator and the author of novels and poetry.
Ilma Rakusa is a Swiss writer and translator. She translates French, Russian, Serbo-Croatian and Hungarian into German.
Robert Schindel is an Austrian lyricist, director and author.
Nicolas Mahler is an Austrian cartoonist and illustrator. Die Zeit, NZZ am Sonntag, Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung and Titanic print his comics. He is known for his comics Flaschko and Kratochvil and for his literary adaptations in comic form. His comics have been adapted into films and theatre plays. He was awarded the Max & Moritz Prize and the Preis der Literaturhäuser.
