Adelbert von Chamisso Prize
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The Adelbert von Chamisso Prize (German
, Adelbert-von-Chamisso-Preis) is a German
literary award established in 1985, given to a work whose author's mother tongue is not German, as was the case for Adelbert von Chamisso
. The 15,000 € (2007) prize is awarded during the Frankfurt Book Fair
.
German language
German is a West Germanic language, related to and classified alongside English and Dutch. With an estimated 90 – 98 million native speakers, German is one of the world's major languages and is the most widely-spoken first language in the European Union....
, Adelbert-von-Chamisso-Preis) is a German
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Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...
literary award established in 1985, given to a work whose author's mother tongue is not German, as was the case for Adelbert von Chamisso
Adelbert von Chamisso
Adelbert von Chamisso was a German poet and botanist.- Life :He was born Louis Charles Adélaïde de Chamissot at the château of Boncourt at Ante, in Champagne, France, the ancestral seat of his family...
. The 15,000 € (2007) prize is awarded during the Frankfurt Book Fair
Frankfurt Book Fair
The Frankfurt Book Fair is the world's largest trade fair for books, based on the number of publishing companies represented. As to the number of visitors, the Turin Book Fair attracts about as many visitors, viz. some 300,000....
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Winners
In addition to the main prize one or more "promotional prizes" (Förderpreis) are awarded, shown in this list as "(PP)".- 2011 - Jean KrierJean KrierJean Krier is a Luxembourg poet who in 2011 was awarded both the Adelbert von Chamisso Prize for the best work by a non-German author and the Servais Prize for the best literary work written by a Luxembourger. In both cases, the work in question was Herzens Lust Spiele...
; Olga MartynovaOlga MartynovaOlga Martynova is a Russian-German writer. She writes poems in Russian, prose and essays in German....
and Nicol Ljubić (PP) - 2010 - Terézia MoraTerézia MoraTerézia Mora is a Hungarian writer, screenwriter and translator.Terézia Mora was born in Sopron, Hungary but moved to Germany after the political changes in Hungary in 1990. She studied Hungarian studies and drama at the Humboldt University in Berlin and trained as a screenwriter at the Deutsche...
; Abbas Khider and Nino Haratischwili (PP) - 2009 - Artur Becker; María Cecilia Barbetta and Tzveta Sofronieva (PP)
- 2008 - Saša Stanišić; Michael Stavarič and Léda Forgó (PP)
- 2007 - Magdalena Sadlon; Que Du Luu and Luo Lingyuan (PP)
- 2006 - Zsuzsanna Gahse; Sudabeh Mohafez and Eleonora Hummel (PP)
- 2005 - Feridun ZaimoğluFeridun ZaimogluFeridun Zaimoğlu is a German author and visual artist of Turkish origin.Zaimoğlu has developed since 1995 to have become one of the important poets of contemporary German language...
; Dimitré DinevDimitré DinevDimitré Dinev is a Bulgarian-born Austrian writer. He is best known for his play Kozha i nebe , which controversially won the Askeer prize in 2007.-References:...
(PP) - 2004 - Asfa-Wossen AsserateAsfa-Wossen AsseratePrince Asfa-Wossen Asserate , is a management consultant and an author writing in German, and a member of the Solomonic dynasty, the deposed royal family of Ethiopia...
and Zsuzsa BánkZsuzsa BánkZsuzsa Bánk is a German writer.Her parents moved to Germany after the Hungarian Revolution of 1956 and she studied at the Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz and in Washington....
; Yadé KaraYadé KaraYadé Kara is a Turkish-German writer.Born in Eastern Anatolia, she grew up in West Berlin. She studied English and German studies and also drama at the Schiller Theater...
(PP) - 2003 - Ilma Rakusa; Hussain al-Mozany and Marica Bodrozic (PP)
- 2002 - SAID; Francesco Micieli and Catalin Dorian Florescu (PP); Harald WeinrichHarald WeinrichHarald Weinrich is a German classical scholar, scholar of Romance philology and philosopher, known for the breadth of his writings. He is emeritus professor of the Collège de France, and held the chair of Romance literature from 1992 to 1998.His doctorate and Habilitation were from the University...
(Honour Prize) - 2001 - Zehra Cirak; Radek Knapp y Vladimir Vertlib (PP); Imre KertészImre KertészImre Kertész is a Hungarian Jewish author, Holocaust concentration camp survivor, and winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2002 "for writing that upholds the fragile experience of the individual against the barbaric arbitrariness of history"....
(Honour Prize) - 2000 - Ilija Marinow TrojanowIlija Trojanowthumb|Ilija Trojanow Ilija Trojanow , is a Bulgarian-German writer, translator and publisher.-Life:...
; Terézia MoraTerézia MoraTerézia Mora is a Hungarian writer, screenwriter and translator.Terézia Mora was born in Sopron, Hungary but moved to Germany after the political changes in Hungary in 1990. She studied Hungarian studies and drama at the Humboldt University in Berlin and trained as a screenwriter at the Deutsche...
and Aglaja Veteranyi (PP) - 1999 - Emine Sevgi ÖzdamarEmine Sevgi ÖzdamarEmine Sevgi Özdamar , is a Turkish-German actress, director and author.Özdamar has received a lot of recognition for her work. A lover of poetry, she found great inspiration in the works of Heinrich Heine and Bertolt Brecht, especially from an album of the latter's songs which she had bought in the...
; Selim Özdogan (PP) - 1998 - Natascha Wodin; Abdellatif Belfellah (PP)
- 1997 - Güney Dal y José F. A. Oliver; Jiří GrušaJirí GrušaJiří Gruša was a Czech poet, novelist, translator, diplomat and politician.-Biography:...
(Honour Prize) - 1996 - Yōko TawadaYoko TawadaYōko Tawada is a Japanese writer currently living in Berlin, Germany.Tawada was born in Tokyo, received her undergraduate education at Waseda University in 1982 with a major in Russian literature, then studied at Hamburg University where she received a master's degree in contemporary German...
; Marijan Nakić (PP) - 1995 - György DalosGyörgy DalosGyörgy Dalos is a Hungarian Jewish writer and historian. He is best known for his novel 1985, and The Guest from the Future: Anna Akhmatova and Isaiah Berlin.-Life:...
; László Csiba (PP) - 1994 - Dante Andrea Franzetti; Dragica Rajcić (PP)
- 1993 - Rafik SchamiRafik SchamiRafik Schami is a Syrian-German author, storyteller and critic.-Biography:Born in Damascus, Syria in 1946, Schami is the son of a baker from an Syriac-Christian family. His schooling and university studies took place in Damascus. From 1965, Schami wrote stories in Arabic...
; Ismet Elci (PP) - 1992 - Adel KarasholiAdel KarasholiAdel Karasholi is a German and Arabic writer of Syrian origin.-Life:Adel Karasholi was born in a family of Kurdish extraction. Already a published poet in his youth, he founded a literary magazine in Damascus which was banned by the Syrian government...
and Galsan TschinagGalsan TschinagGalsan Tschinag , born Irgit Shynykbai-oglu Dshurukuwaa, is internationally known as a Mongolian writer of novels, poems, and essays in the German language, though he hails from a Tuvan background... - 1991 - Libuše MoníkováLibuše MoníkováLibuše Moníková was a Czech writer, publishing in German language. In 1968, following the Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia, she left to Western Germany.- References :...
; SAID (PP) - 1990 - Cyrus Atabay; Alev Tekinay (PP)
- 1989 - Yüksel Pazarkaya; Zehra Cirak (PP)
- 1988 - Elazar Benyoëtz; Zafer Şenocak (PP)
- 1987 - Franco Biondi and Gino Chiellino
- 1986 - Ota FilipOta FilipThis article is on the Czech novelist, there is a minor actor by the name Ota Filip who is not the same personOta Filip , is a Czech novelist and journalist. He has written in both German and Czech. His novels have also been translated into French, Italian, Spanish and Polish...
- 1985 - Aras Ören; Rafik SchamiRafik SchamiRafik Schami is a Syrian-German author, storyteller and critic.-Biography:Born in Damascus, Syria in 1946, Schami is the son of a baker from an Syriac-Christian family. His schooling and university studies took place in Damascus. From 1965, Schami wrote stories in Arabic...
(PP)
Sources
- Robert Bosch Stiftung (edit.): Viele Kulturen eine Sprache. Adelbert-von-Chamisso-Preisträgerinnen und Preisträger 1985-2007, Stuttgart 2007