• The Leipzig Book Fair Prize (Preis der Leipziger Buchmesse) is a literary award assigned annually during the Leipzig Book Fair to outstanding newly released...
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    The Leipzig Book Fair (German: Leipziger Buchmesse) is the second largest book fair in Germany after the Frankfurt Book Fair. The fair takes place annually...
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  • Witsch. ISBN 978-3-462-04112-5. In 2010, Blumenbach received the Leipzig Book Fair Prize and the Kurd Laßwitz Award for the translation. Nesi, Edoardo;...
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    Nietzsche Prize of the State of Saxony-Anhalt 2003 Premio Internazionale Federico Nietzsche, the Italian Nietzsche Society 2005 Leipzig Book Fair Prize in the...
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  • Berlin at the time of the German reunification. The book received the 2020 Leipzig Book Fair Prize. Cranach, Xaver von (28 March 2020). "Weil die größte...
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    language novel of the year Leipzig Book Fair Prize – in three categories: fiction, non-fiction, and translation Ingeborg Bachmann Prize Aspekte-Literaturpreis...
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  • collection by the German writer Jan Wagner. It received the 2015 Leipzig Book Fair Prize for Fiction. Höppner, Stefan (21 April 2015). "Ein Barrel Styx"...
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  • 2011 novel by the German writer Wolfgang Herrndorf. It won the Leipzig Book Fair Prize in 2012. It is the last novel that Herrndorf was able to complete...
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    Clemens J. Setz (category Georg Büchner Prize winners)
    Die Frequenzen, was shortlisted for the German Book Prize. He won the 2011 Leipzig Book Fair Prize with the short story collection Die Liebe zur Zeit...
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    the Frankfurt Book Fair was the most important book fair in Europe.[citation needed] It was eclipsed in 1632 by the Leipzig Book Fair during the Enlightenment...
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  • published in 2016, winning the Wilhelm Raabe Literature Prize and nominated for the Leipzig Book Fair Prize. It tells the story of Fritz Honka and bears the...
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    the United States" (orig. 2005). In 2009 Münkler was awarded the Leipzig Book Fair Prize in the category "Non-fiction" for Die Deutschen und ihre Mythen...
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    of numerous highly acclaimed monographs and the winner of the Leipzig Book Fair Prize for non-fiction in 2018 for his most recent work. His earlier work...
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    Jean and was nominated for the prize of the Leipzig Book Fair. Teresa Präauer was nominated for the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize at the Days of German Literature...
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  • The Goethe Prize of the City of Frankfurt (German: Goethe-Preis der Stadt Frankfurt am Main) is an award for achievement "worthy of honour in memory of...
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    the Leipzig Book Fair Prize in 2012, ‘’Tschick’’ was nominated for the same prize the year before. Herrndorf's friend Robert Koall accepted the prize in...
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    London publisher And Other Stories in 2011. It won the Leipzig Book Fair Prize in 2008. His third book, Gewalten (Acts of Violence), is a diary of 2009 in...
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    stories that later became part of the book Betrachtung were published in the Easter edition of Bohemia. In Leipzig during 1913, Brod and publisher Kurt...
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    Döblin Prize in 2015 and the Leipzig Book Fair Prize in 2017 for Sie kam aus Mariupol, one of her best known books. Her book Irgendwo in diesem Dunkel is...
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    Berlin, and won the Belletristik (Belles Lettres) category of the Leipzig Book Fair Prize, 2018. This work has been published in an English translation by...
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    by Rowohlt Berlin. In 2019, Jähner won the Leipzig Book Fair Prize for Wolfszeit (Category: Non-fiction book / Essay writing) Wolfszeit, Rowohlt Berlin...
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    weißen Blätter under the editorship of René Schickele. The first edition in book form appeared in December 1915 in the series Der jüngste Tag, edited by Kurt...
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    National Book Centre, Dhaka (1975) Shilpakala Academy Award (1977) Ekushey Padak (1984) 6th Bangabandhu Award (1994) Leipzig Book Fair Prize for book illustration...
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    won the 2015 Independent Foreign Fiction Prize for The End of Days and the 2024 International Booker Prize for Kairos. Born in East Berlin, Erpenbeck...
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    Leipzig: Duncker & Humblot, pp. 678–688 Wilhelm Scherer (1879), "Grimm, Wilhelm (Karl)", Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (in German), vol. 9, Leipzig:...
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    attending the Gymnasium at Hof, in 1781 Jean Paul went to the University of Leipzig. His original intention was to enter his father's profession, but theology...
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    Jan Wagner (poet) (category Georg Büchner Prize winners)
    essayist and translator, recipient of the Georg Büchner Prize and Leipzig Book Fair Prize. Wagner was born in Hamburg, and grew up north of it, in the...
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    Nibelunge Liet, den Lesarten sämmtlicher Handschriften und einem Wörterbuche, Leipzig: F. A. Brockhaus, 1870–1880 Michael S. Batts. Das Nibelungenlied, critical...
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    further works. He fled Stuttgart in 1782, going via Frankfurt, Mannheim, Leipzig, and Dresden to Weimar. During the journey, he had an affair with Charlotte...
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  • Bücherpreis (English: German Book Prize) was a non-monetary prize for literature which was awarded at the Leipzig Book Fair by the German Publishers and...
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