The Solothurner Literaturpreis is a literary award for a literary achievement by a German language writer. [1]
Awarded since 1994, the annual prize is 15,000 Swiss francs. [1] It is named after the city of Solothurn in Switzerland.
The Roswitha Prize is the oldest German language prize for literature that is given solely to women.
The Kleist Prize is an annual German literature prize. The prize was first awarded in 1912, on the occasion of the hundredth anniversary of the death of Heinrich von Kleist. The Kleist Prize was the most important literary award of the Weimar Republic, but was discontinued in 1933.
The Kassel Literary Prize for Grotesque Humor, established 1985, is an annual prize awarded by the city of Kassel and the Brückner-Kühner foundation in recognition of "grotesque and comic work" at a high artistic level. Prior to 1996, it was also given to literary professors whose work is connected to this theme. The prize includes an award of 10,000 euros.
Christoph Ransmayr is an Austrian writer.
Rheingau Literatur Preis is a literary prize of Hesse. It is awarded annually since 1994 by the Rheingau Literatur Festival which follows the Rheingau Musik Festival. An author is awarded whose prose gained the attention of the literary critics
The Aspekte-Literaturpreis is awarded annually for the best debut novel written in German, as judged by a panel of writers, critics, and scholars. The prize is sponsored by the ZDF television network through its arts program, Aspekte. It is valued at 10,000 Euros. Past recipients include Georg Büchner Prize-winner Felicitas Hoppe and Nobel Prize-winner Herta Müller. The award was established in 1979.
Eichendorff-Literaturpreis is a literary prize of Germany. It was first awarded in 1956 and was created in honour of Joseph Freiherr von Eichendorff. The prize, endowed with 5,000 euros, has been awarded annually by the Wangener Kreis – Society for Literature and Art of the East. The award goes to writers who are closely related to Silesian culture.
The Bremen Literature Prize is a German literary award. The prize money is €25,000.
Literaturpreis des Kulturkreises der deutschen Wirtschaft is a literary prize of Germany. It was established in 1951. From 2009 to 2016 the prize was awarded in the prose, poetry, drama and translation categories. Since 2017 the award was renamed to Literaturpreis "Text & Sprache". The prize is endowed with €20,000.
Thomas Mann Prize is a literary prize of Germany. In full the title is "Thomas Mann Prize of the city of Lübeck and the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts". It is given in alternate years in Lübeck and in Munich. The award is the product of a merger of two prizes in 2010, the Thomas Mann Preis der Hansestadt Lübeck and the Großer Literaturpreis of the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts. The Thomas Mann Prize Lübeck was first awarded in 1975; the Great Literature Prize was first awarded in 1950. The prize money is €25,000.
The Heimito von Doderer-Literaturpreis was established in 1996 to commemorate the 100th birthday of Heimito von Doderer. It was created as a memorial to "one of the most important writers of the 20th century", and to honor a single work or life work of a contemporary writer who excels in "language of high sensitivity and originality in the tradition of Doderer.
Kathrin Röggla is an Austrian writer, essayist and playwright. She was born in Salzburg and lives in Berlin since 1992 but moved to Cologne in 2020. She has written numerous prose works, including essays, as well as dramas and radio plays. For her literary works, she has won a wide range of awards.
Ulrike Draesner is a German author. She was awarded the 2016 Nicolas Born Prize.
Zsuzsanna Gahse is a Hungarian-born German-language writer and translator who lives in Switzerland.
Lukas Bärfuss is a Swiss writer and playwright who writes in German. He won the Georg Büchner Prize in 2019.
The Uwe Johnson Prize is an annual German literary award. The award is named after the writer Uwe Johnson (1934–1984) and was first awarded in 1994. It is awarded for "outstanding literary works in which there are links to the poetics of Uwe Johnson". Alternating the main prize for a work and the Förderpreis for the best debut is awarded by the Mecklenburg Literature Society, the Nordkurier (1994–2016), the Berlin law firm Gentz und Partner and the Humanistischer Verband Deutschlands. The prize is endowed with €20,000.
The Rauris Literature Prize is an annual Austrian literary award since 1972 by the Salzburg state government. The prize money is €10,000. It is awarded "for the best prose first publication by a German-speaking author from the previous year". The prize is presented at the opening of the Rauris Literature Days.
Monika Helfer is an Austrian writer. She was invested with the Austrian Decoration for Science and Art in 2016. She was the recipient of the Solothurner Literaturpreis in 2020, and the Schubart-Literaturpreis in 2021. She has been nominated twice for the German Book Prize in 2017 and 2021.
Iris Wolff is a German writer.