Corine Literature Prize
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The Corine – International Book Prize, as it is officially called, is a German literature prize created by the
Bavarian Landesverband of the Börsenverein des Deutschen Buchhandels first awarded in 2001. It is awarded to German and international "authors for excellent literary achievements and their recognition by the public."
, was made in 1760 by Franz Anton Bustelli
and is one of the 16 figures of the commedia dell'arte
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Bavarian Landesverband of the Börsenverein des Deutschen Buchhandels first awarded in 2001. It is awarded to German and international "authors for excellent literary achievements and their recognition by the public."
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The "Corine", manufactured by Nymphenburg Porcelain ManufactoryNymphenburg Porcelain Manufactory
The Nymphenburg Porcelain Manufactory , manufacturer of Nymphenburg porcelain, is situated in the Nymphenburg Palace in Munich, capital of Bavaria, and since the mid-eighteenth century has been manufacturing porcelain of high artistic value.- History :After his accession in 1745 Maximilian III...
, was made in 1760 by Franz Anton Bustelli
Franz Anton Bustelli
Franz Anton Bustelli was a Swiss-born German modeller for the Bavarian Nymphenburg Porcelain Manufactory from 1754 to his death in 1763...
and is one of the 16 figures of the commedia dell'arte
Commedia dell'arte
Commedia dell'arte is a form of theatre characterized by masked "types" which began in Italy in the 16th century, and was responsible for the advent of the actress and improvised performances based on sketches or scenarios. The closest translation of the name is "comedy of craft"; it is shortened...
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Winners
- 2001
- Fiction: Zeruya ShalevZeruya ShalevZeruya Shalev is a bestselling Israeli author.Zeruya Shalev was born on Kibbutz Kinneret. She has an MA in Bible studies and works as a literary editor at Keshet publishing house...
for Mann und Frau - Fiction: Henning MankellHenning MankellHenning Mankell is a Swedish crime writer, children's author, leftist activist and dramatist, best known for a series of mystery novels starring his most famous creation, Inspector Kurt Wallander.-Life and career:...
for One Step BehindOne Step Behind (novel)One Step Behind is a crime novel by Swedish author Henning Mankell, the seventh in his acclaimed Inspector Wallander series.-Synopsis:... - Non-fiction: Pascale N. Bercovitch for Das Lächeln des Delphins
- Non-fiction: Simon SinghSimon SinghSimon Lehna Singh, MBE is a British author who has specialised in writing about mathematical and scientific topics in an accessible manner....
for The Code BookThe Code BookThis is about a book called The Code Book, for other uses see Codebook The Code Book: The Evolution of Secrecy from Mary, Queen of Scots to Quantum Cryptography is a book written by Simon Singh and published in 1999 by Doubleday of New York; ISBN 0-385-49531-5.The Code Book covers a diverse set of... - Illustrated Non-fiction: The BeatlesThe BeatlesThe Beatles were an English rock band, active throughout the 1960s and one of the most commercially successful and critically acclaimed acts in the history of popular music. Formed in Liverpool, by 1962 the group consisted of John Lennon , Paul McCartney , George Harrison and Ringo Starr...
for The Beatles Anthology - Children's Book: Joanne K. Rowling for Harry Potter and the Goblet of FireHarry Potter and the Goblet of FireHarry Potter and the Goblet of Fire is the fourth novel in the Harry Potter series written by J. K. Rowling, published on 8 July 2000.The novel won a Hugo Award in 2001, the only Harry Potter novel to do so...
- Prize of Honour from the Bavarian Minister-PresidentMinister-PresidentA minister-president is the head of government in a number of European countries or subnational governments, in which a parliamentary or semi-presidential system of government prevails, who presides over the council of ministers...
: Wolf Jobst SiedlerWolf Jobst SiedlerWolf Jobst Siedler is a German publisher and writer.He studied at the Freie Universität Berlin and worked as a journalist...
for Ein Leben wird besichtigt - Rolf Heyne First Book Prize: Manil SuriManil SuriManil Suri is an Indian-American mathematician and writer, most notable for his first novel, The Death of Vishnu, which was long-listed for the 2001 Booker Prize, short-listed for the 2002 PEN/Faulkner Award and won the Barnes & Noble Discover Prize that year...
for The Death of VishnuThe Death of VishnuThe Death of Vishnu is a novel by Indian-American writer Manil Suri. The book is about the spiritual journey of a dying man named Vishnu living on a landing of a Bombay apartment building, as well as the lives of the residents living in the building. The novel was nominated for the PEN/Faulkner... - Weltbild Readers’ Prize: Rosamunde PilcherRosamunde PilcherRosamunde Pilcher OBE is a British author of romance novels and mainstream women's fiction. Early in her career she was also published under the pen name Jane Fraser. Pilcher retired from writing in 2000.-Early years:...
for Winter SolsticeWinter solsticeWinter solstice may refer to:* Winter solstice, astronomical event* Winter Solstice , former band* Winter Solstice: North , seasonal songs* Winter Solstice , 2005 American film...
- Fiction: Zeruya Shalev
- 2002
- Fiction: Paulo CoelhoPaulo CoelhoPaulo Coelho is a Brazilian lyricist and novelist.-Biography:Paulo Coelho was born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He attended a Jesuit school. As a teenager, Coelho wanted to become a writer. Upon telling his mother this, she responded with "My dear, your father is an engineer. He's a logical,...
for The AlchemistThe Alchemist (novel)The Alchemist is an allegorical novel by Paulo Coelho first published in 1988. The Alchemist was originally written in Portuguese. It has sold more than 65 million copies in more than 150 countries, becoming one of the best-selling books in history.... - Non-fiction: Waris DirieWaris DirieWaris Dirie is a Somali model, author, actress and human rights activist.-Early years:Waris Dirie was born into a nomadic clan in Galkacyo, Somalia in 1965. At the age of thirteen, she fled her family in order to escape an arranged marriage to a much older man. She landed in London where she...
for Desert FlowerDesert FlowerDesert Flower is an autobiographical book published in 1998 about the life of Somali model, Waris Dirie.... - Illustrated Non-fiction: Jacques PerrinJacques PerrinJacques Perrin is a French actor and filmmaker. He is occasionally credited as Jacques Simonet. Simonet was his father's name and Perrin his mother's.-Life and career:...
for Nomaden der Lüfte – Das Geheimnis der Zugvögel - Children's Book: Astrid LindgrenAstrid LindgrenAstrid Anna Emilia Lindgren , 14 November 1907 – 28 January 2002) was a Swedish author and screenwriter who is the world's 25th most translated author and has sold roughly 145 million copies worldwide...
posthumously, for life's work - HypoVereinsbank Business Book Award: Prof. Meinhard Miegel for Die deformierte Gesellschaft. Wie die Deutschen ihre Wirklichkeit verdrängen
- Rolf Heyne First Book Prize: Sven RegenerSven RegenerSven Regener, born January 1, 1961 in Bremen, is a German musician and writer living in Berlin. In 1982 he recorded his first LP with the band Zatopek and in 1984 he joined Neue Liebe. In 1985 he founded the Berlin band Element of Crime together with Jakob Friderichs. He writes almost all their...
for Herr LehmannHerr LehmannHerr Lehmann is a German novel by Sven Regener, published in 2001, adapted for the screen in 2003. It has been translated into English by John Brownjohn under the title Berlin Blues.... - Prize of Honour from the Bavarian Minister-President: Siegfried LenzSiegfried LenzSiegfried Lenz is a German writer, who has written novels and produced several collections of short stories, essays, and plays for radio and the theatre. He was awarded the Goethe Prize in Frankfurt-am-Main on the 250th Anniversary of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's birth...
for his life's work - Weltbild Readers’ Prize: Barbara WoodBarbara WoodBarbara Wood is an American writer of historical -romance novels.-Biography:Barbara Wood was born January 30, 1947 in Lancashire, England...
for Sacred Ground
- Fiction: Paulo Coelho
- 2003
- Fiction: Donna LeonDonna LeonDonna Leon is the American author of a series of crime novels set in Venice and featuring the fictional hero Commissario Guido Brunetti.Leon has lived in Venice for over 25 years...
Wilful Behaviour - Non-fiction: Inge und Walter JensWalter JensWalter Jens is a German philologist, literature historian, critic, university professor, and writer.In the early 1940s, Jens joined the NSDAP. He denies having applied for membership actively and claims having been forced to join the party...
Frau Thomas Mann - Illustrated Non-fiction: Nina HagenNina HagenNina Hagen is a German singer and actress.-Early years:Hagen was born as Catharina Hagen in the former East Berlin, East Germany, the daughter of Hans Hagen , a scriptwriter, and Eva-Maria Hagen, an actress and singer...
/ Marcel Feige That's Why The Lady Is A Punk - Children's Book: Cornelia FunkeCornelia FunkeCornelia Funke is a multiple award-winning German author of children's fiction. She was born on 10 December 1958, in Dorsten, North Rhine-Westphalia. Funke is best known for her Inkworld trilogy, with the English translation of the third book, Inkdeath, released on 6 October 2008. Many of her...
Herr der Diebe - HypoVereinsbank Business Book Award: Hans-Olaf Henkel Die Ethik des Erfolgs
- Rolf Heyne First Book Prize: Jonathan Safran FoerJonathan Safran FoerJonathan Safran Foer is an American author best known for his novels Everything Is Illuminated and Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close...
Everything Is IlluminatedEverything Is IlluminatedEverything Is Illuminated is the first novel by the American writer Jonathan Safran Foer, published in 2002. It was adapted into a film by the same name starring Elijah Wood and Eugene Hütz in 2005.-Plot summary:... - Prize of Honour from the Bavarian Minister-President: Nadine GordimerNadine GordimerNadine Gordimer is a South African writer and political activist. She was awarded the 1991 Nobel Prize in Literature when she was recognised as a woman "who through her magnificent epic writing has – in the words of Alfred Nobel – been of very great benefit to humanity".Her writing has long dealt...
for her life's work - Weltbild Readers’ Prize: Ken FollettKen FollettKen Follett is a Welsh author of thrillers and historical novels. He has sold more than 100 million copies of his works. Four of his books have reached the number 1 ranking on the New York Times best-seller list: The Key to Rebecca, Lie Down with Lions, Triple, and World Without End.-Early...
JackdawsJackdawsJackdaws is a World War II spy thriller written by British novelist Ken Follett. It was published in hardcover format in 2001 by the Macmillan. It was reissued as a paperback book by Signet Books in 2002.- Plot teaser :...
- Fiction: Donna Leon
- 2004
- Fiction: Frank SchätzingFrank Schätzing' , is a German writer, mostly known for his best-selling science fiction novel The Swarm .- Life :Schätzing was born in Cologne and studied communication studies; he later ran his own company, an advertising agency named INTEVI, in Cologne. Schätzing became a writer in 1990, and penned several...
, Der Schwarm - Non-fiction: Frank SchirrmacherFrank SchirrmacherFrank Schirrmacher is a German journalist, doctored literature expert and essayist, writer, and since 1994 co-publisher of the national German newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.-Education:...
, Das Methusalem-Komplott - Children's Book: Ulrich Janßen, Ulla Steuernagel, Die Kinder-Uni
- Rolf Heyne First Book Prize: Louise WelshLouise WelshLouise Welsh is an author of short stories and novels, based in Glasgow, Scotland.Welsh studied History at Glasgow University and traded in second-hand books for several years before publishing her first novel....
, The Cutting RoomThe Cutting Room (book)The Cutting Room is the debut novel of Scottish author Louise Welsh. The book was first published in 2002 by Edinburgh-based publisher Canongate... - Economics Book: Hans-Werner SinnHans-Werner SinnHans-Werner Sinn is a German economist and President of the Ifo Institute for Economic Research.- Education and career :...
, Ist Deutschland noch zu retten? - Audiobook: Schönherz & Fleer, Rilke Projekt, 1 bis 3
- Prize of Honour from the Bavarian Minister-President: 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"....
for his life's work - Weltbild Readers’ Prize: Patricia ShawPatricia Shaw (novelist)Patricia Shaw is an Australian novelist and non-fiction writer. She currently lives on the Gold Coast, Queensland, in northeast Australia.-Biography:...
, The Five Winds - Future Prize: Tad WilliamsTad WilliamsRobert Paul "Tad" Williams, born in San Jose, California, is the author of several fantasy and science fiction novels, including Tailchaser's Song, the Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn series, the Otherland series, and The War of the Flowers....
, OtherlandOtherlandOtherland is a science fiction tetralogy written by Tad Williams and published between 1996 and 2001. The story is set on Earth near the end of the 21st century, probably between 2082 and 2089 , in a world in which...
- Fiction: Frank Schätzing
- 2005
- Fiction: Per Olov EnquistPer Olov EnquistPer Olov Enquist, better known as P. O. Enquist, is a Swedish author. He has worked as a journalist, playwright and novelist...
, Das Buch von Blanche und Marie - Non-fiction: Claus KleberClaus KleberClaus Kleber is a German journalist. He is the anchorman of the news show heute journal of ZDF, a German public TV station...
, Amerikas Kreuzzüge - Children's Book: Kai Meyer, Frostfeuer
- Rolf Heyne First Book Prize: Eva MenasseEva MenasseEva Menasse is an Austrian author and journalist. She has studied history and German literature. Menasse had a successful career as a journalist, writing for the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung in Frankfurt and as a correspondent from Prague and Berlin...
, Vienna - Economics Book: Jeremy RifkinJeremy RifkinJeremy Rifkin is an American economist, writer, public speaker, political advisor and activist. He is the founder and president of the Foundation On Economic Trends...
, The European Dream: How Europe's Vision of the Future Is Quietly Eclipsing the American DreamThe European DreamThe European Dream: How Europe's Vision of the Future Is Quietly Eclipsing the American Dream is a book, by Jeremy Rifkin published in September 2004. Rifkin describes the emergence and evolution of the European Union over the past five decades, as well as key differences between European and... - Prize of Honour from the Bavarian Minister-President: Walter KempowskiWalter KempowskiWalter Kempowski was a German writer. Kempowski was known for his series of novels called German Chronicle and the monumental Echolot , a collage of autobiographical reports, letters and other documents by contemporary witnesses of the Second World War.-Childhood :Walter Kempowski was born in...
for his life's work - Weltbild Readers’ Prize: Cecelia AhernCecelia AhernCecelia Ahern is an Irish novelist, since 2004. In addition to publishing several novels, she has also contributed a number of short stories to various anthologies, for which all her royalties go to charity.Ahern also created and produced the ABC comedy Samantha Who? starring Christina Applegate...
, Für immer vielleicht - Audiobook: Helma Sanders-BrahmsHelma Sanders-BrahmsHelma Sanders-Brahms is a German film director, screenwriter, producer and actress.She studied acting then German and English. She first worked in TV and then trained as a film director with Sergio Corbucci and Pier Paolo Pasolini making a large number of films often commissioned by German...
, Tausendundeine Nacht - Future Prize: Kurt G. Blüchel, Bionik
- Fiction: Per Olov Enquist
- 2006
- Fiction: Kazuo IshiguroKazuo IshiguroKazuo Ishiguro OBE or ; born 8 November 1954) is a Japanese–English novelist. He was born in Nagasaki, Japan, and his family moved to England in 1960. Ishiguro obtained his Bachelor's degree from University of Kent in 1978 and his Master's from the University of East Anglia's creative writing...
, Never Let Me Go - Non-fiction: Neclà KelekNecla KelekNecla Kelek is a German feminist and social scientist, holding a doctorate in this field, originally from Turkey. She gave lectures on migration sociology at the Evangelische Fachhochschule für Sozialpädagogik in Hamburg from 1999 until 2004.In 2006, the scientific community distanced itself from...
, Die verlorenen Söhne. Plädoyer für die Befreiung des türkisch-muslimischen Mannes - Children's Book: Jonathan StroudJonathan StroudJonathan Anthony Stroud is an author of fantasy books, mainly for children and young adults.-Biography:Born in 1970 in Bedford, England, Stroud began to write stories at a very young age. He grew up in St Albans where he enjoyed reading books, drawing pictures, and writing stories...
, Bartimäus. Die Pforte des Magiers - Rolf Heyne First Book Prize: Bertina Henrichs, Die Schachspielerin
- Economics Book: Kurt BiedenkopfKurt BiedenkopfKurt Hans Biedenkopf is a German politician. He was Ministerpräsident of the Free State of Saxony from 1990 until 2002, as such serving as President of the Bundesrat in 1999/2000.- Biography :...
, Die Ausbeutung der Enkel - Prize of Honour from the Bavarian Minister-President: Amos OzAmos OzAmos Oz is an Israeli writer, novelist, and journalist. He is also a professor of literature at Ben-Gurion University in Be'er Sheva....
for his life's work - Weltbild Readers’ Prize: Diana GabaldonDiana GabaldonDiana J. Gabaldon is an American author of Mexican-American and English ancestry. Gabaldon is the author of the Outlander Series. Her books they contain elements of romantic fiction, historical fiction, mystery, adventure, and science fiction.-Early life and science career:Diana J. Gabaldon was...
, Ein Hauch von Schnee und Asche - Audiobook: Klaus Maria BrandauerKlaus Maria BrandauerKlaus Maria Brandauer is an Austrian actor, film director, and professor at the Max Reinhardt Seminar in Vienna.-Personal life:...
und Birgit MinichmayrBirgit MinichmayrBirgit Minichmayr is an Austrian actress and singer born in Linz, Austria. Birgit Minichmayr studied drama at the Max-Reinhardt-Seminar in Vienna.-Career:...
, Brandauer liest Mozart - Future Prize: Tim FlanneryTim FlanneryTimothy Fridtjof Flannery is an Australian mammalogist, palaeontologist, environmentalist and global warming activist....
, Wir Wettermacher
- Fiction: Kazuo Ishiguro
- 2007
- Fiction: Wilhelm GenazinoWilhelm GenazinoWilhelm Genazino is a German journalist and author.In the 1960s, he studied German, philosophy and sociology at Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main. He worked as a journalist until 1965. During this time, he worked, inter alia, for the satirical magazine Pardon and co-edited the...
, Mittelmäßiges Heimweh - Non-fiction: Anne Siemens, Für die RAF war er das System, für mich der Vater - die andere Geschichte des deutschen Terrorismus
- Children's Book: Sergej Lukianenko, Das Schlangenschwert
- Rolf Heyne First Book Prize: Harald MartensteinHarald MartensteinHarald Martenstein is a German journalist and author.- Biography :Martenstein studied History and Romance Studies in Freiburg. From 1981 to 1988, he was a journalist at the Stuttgarter Zeitung and from 1988 to 1997 he was a journalist at Tagesspiegel in Berlin...
, Heimweg - Economics Book: Érik OrsennaÉrik OrsennaÉrik Orsenna is the pen-name of Érik Arnoult , a French politician and novelist. After studying philosophy and political science at the Institut d'Études Politiques de Paris , Orsenna specialized in economics at the London School of Economics...
, Weiße Plantagen – eine Reise durch unsere globalisierte Welt - Prize of Honour from the Bavarian Minister-President: Peter HärtlingPeter HärtlingPeter Härtling is a German writer and poet. He is a member of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany and he received the Großes Verdienstkreuz for his major contribution to German literature.-Biography:...
for his life's work - Weltbild Readers’ Prize: Andrea Maria SchenkelAndrea Maria SchenkelAndrea Maria Schenkel is a German writer. She published her debut novel Tannöd in 2006.Based on the Hinterkaifeck murder in the 1920s, Schenkel’s fictional account takes place in the 1950s...
(Author) and Monica BleibtreuMonica BleibtreuMonica Bleibtreu was an Austrian actress and screenwriter, best-known in the German-speaking world for her German film, television and stage roles.-Life and career:...
(Reader) for the boo and audiobook Tannöd - Audiobook: Hape KerkelingHape KerkelingHans Peter Wilhelm "Hape" Kerkeling is a well-known German actor, presenter and comedian.-Career:At secondary school in Recklinghausen, Hape Kerkeling and some fellow students formed a band and published a record .Kerkeling started his career as a comedian in radio, working for various German...
, Ein Mann, ein Fjord
- Fiction: Wilhelm Genazino
- 2008
- Fiction: Feridun ZaimogluFeridun 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...
, Liebesbrand - Non-fiction: Manfred Lütz, Gott. Eine kleine Geschichte des Größten
- Children's Book: Andreas SteinhöfelAndreas SteinhöfelAndreas Steinhöfel is a German author for children and young adult books, and a translator.- Biography :...
, Rico, Oskar und die Tieferschatten - Bilderwelten: Nadine Barth (Hrsg.), Verschwindende Landschaften
- Economics Book: Paul CollierPaul CollierPaul Collier, CBE is a Professor of Economics, Director for the Centre for the Study of African Economies at The University of Oxford and Fellow of St Antony's College. From 1998 – 2003 he was the director of the Development Research Group of the World Bank.-Life:Collier is a specialist in...
, The Bottom Billion - Prize of Honour from the Bavarian Minister-President: Martin WalserMartin WalserAt first the speech did not cause a great stir. Indeed, the audience present in Church of St. Paul received the speech with applause, though Walser's critic Ignatz Bubis did not applaud, as confirmed by television footage of the event...
for his life's work - Future Prize: Muhammad YunusMuhammad YunusMuhammad Yunus is a Bangladeshi economist and founder of the Grameen Bank, an institution that provides microcredit to help its clients establish creditworthiness and financial self-sufficiency. In 2006 Yunus and Grameen received the Nobel Peace Prize...
, Die Armut besiegen - Weltbild Readers’ Prize: Volker Klüpfel, Michael Kobr, Laienspiel. Kluftingers neuer Fall
- Audiobook: Henning MankellHenning MankellHenning Mankell is a Swedish crime writer, children's author, leftist activist and dramatist, best known for a series of mystery novels starring his most famous creation, Inspector Kurt Wallander.-Life and career:...
, The Man from Beijing (readed by Axel Milberg)
- Fiction: Feridun Zaimoglu
- 2009
- Fiction: Mohammed HanifMohammed HanifMohammed Hanif is a Pakistani writer and journalist.-Life:He was born in Okara. He graduated from Pakistan Air Force Academy as a pilot officer, but subsequently left to pursue a career in journalism...
, A Case of Exploding MangoesA Case of Exploding MangoesA Case of Exploding Mangoes is a comic novel by the Pakistani writer Mohammed Hanif based on the plane crash that killed General Muhammad Zia ul-Haq, former president of Pakistan... - Non-fiction: Richard von WeizsäckerRichard von WeizsäckerRichard Karl Freiherr von Weizsäcker , known as Richard von Weizsäcker, is a German politician . He served as Governing Mayor of West Berlin from 1981 to 1984, and as President of the Federal Republic of Germany from 1984 to 1994...
, Der Weg zur Einheit - Children's Book: Mirjam Pressler, Nathan und seine Kinder
- Bilderwelten: Alex MacLeanAlex MacLeanAlex S. MacLean is an American photographic artist who's best known for his spectacular aerial photographs.MacLean graduated as a BA in 1969 from Harvard. He continued his studies to become an architect in 1973. He became interested in aerial scenery while he studied community planning and got a...
, OVER: The American Landscape at the Tipping Point' - Economics Book: Reinhard MarxReinhard MarxReinhard Marx is a German Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. He currently serves as the incumbent Cardinal archbishop of Munich and Freising. Pope Benedict XVI elevated Cardinal Marx to the cardinalate in a consistory on 20 November 2010...
, Das Kapital. Ein Plädoyer für den Menschen - Future Prize: Nicholas SternNicholas SternNicholas Herbert Stern, Baron Stern of Brentford, Kt, FBA is a British economist and academic. He is IG Patel Professor of Economics and Government, Chair of the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at the London School of Economics , and 2010 Professor of Collège de...
, Der Global Deal - Audiobook: Fred VargasFred VargasFred Vargas is the pseudonym of the French historian, archaeologist and writer Frédérique Audoin-Rouzeau . Her crime fiction policiers have won three International Dagger Awards from the Crime Writers Association, for three successive novels: in 2006, 2008 and 2009. She is the first author to...
, Der verbotene Ort (gelesen von Barbara Nüsse) - Prize of Honour from the Bavarian Minister-President: Rüdiger SafranskiRüdiger SafranskiRüdiger Safranski is a German philosopher and author.- Life :...
for his life's work
- Fiction: Mohammed Hanif
- 2010
- Fiction: Hans Joachim Schädlich, Kokoschkins Reise
- Audience Award: Carla Federico, Im Land der Feuerblume
- Young Adult Novel: John Green, Paper TownsPaper TownsPaper Towns is the third young adult novel by John Green, published in October 2008 by Dutton Books. It debuted at number 5 on the New York Times bestseller list for children's books and was awarded the 2009 Edgar Award for best Young Adult novel....
- Bilderwelten: Herlinde Koelbl, Mein Blick
- Economics Book: Wolfgang Kersting, Verteidigung des Liberalismus
- Future Prize: William KamkwambaWilliam KamkwambaWilliam Kamkwamba is a Malawian inventor and author. He gained fame in his country when, in 2002, he built a windmill to power a few electrical appliances in his family's house in Masitala using blue gum trees, bicycle parts, and materials collected in a local scrapyard...
, Bryan Mealer, The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Creating Currents of Electricity and Hope - Audiobook: Jo NesbøJo NesbøJo Nesbø is an Edgar Award nominated Norwegian author and musician. As of September 2008 more than one and a half million copies of his novels have been sold in Norway, and his work has been translated into over forty languages....
, The Leopard (gelesen von Burkhart Klaußner) - Prize of Honour from the Bavarian Minister-President: Herbert Rosendorfer for his life's work
- 2011
- Zeit Publishing Literature Award: John BurnsideJohn BurnsideJohn Burnside is a Scottish writer, born in Dunfermline.-Background:Burnside studied English and European Languages at Cambridge College of Arts and Technology. A former computer software engineer, he has been a freelance writer since 1996...
, A Lie About My Father - Klassic Radio Audience Award: Juliane Koepcke, When I fell from the Sky
- Young Readers’ Award: Kate de Goldi, The 10 PM Question
- Bilderwelten: Elke HeidenreichElke HeidenreichElke Heidenreich is a German author, TV presenter and journalist.- Life :Heidenreich studied German studies in Munich, Hamburg and Berlin. Heidenreich works as German author and wrote several books...
, Tom Krausz, Dylan Thomas - Business Book Award: Peter D. SchiffPeter SchiffPeter David Schiff is an American investment broker, author and financial commentator. Schiff is CEO and chief global strategist of Euro Pacific Capital Inc., a broker-dealer based in Westport, Connecticut and CEO of Euro Pacific Precious Metals, LLC, a gold and silver dealer based in New York...
, Andrew J. Schiff, How an Economy Grows and Why it CrashesHow an Economy Grows and Why it CrashesHow an Economy Grows and Why it Crashes is an illustrated introduction to economic theory by Peter Schiff and Andrew Schiff. The book allegorically explores such topics as inflation, deficit spending, central banking, international trade, and the housing bubble and credit collapse of 2008... - Future Prize: António DamásioAntonio DamasioAntonio Damasio is David Dornsife Professor of Neuroscience at the University of Southern California, where he heads USC's Brain and Creativity Institute and Adjunct Professor at the Salk Institute. Prior to taking up his posts at USC, in 2005, Damasio was M.W...
, Self Comes to Mind : Constructing the Conscious Brain - Audiobook: Axel Hacke, Ursula Mauder, The Best of My Love Life
- Prize of Honour from the Bavarian Minister-President: Christine NöstlingerChristine NöstlingerChristine Nöstlinger is an Austrian writer.By her own admission, Nöstlinger was a wild and angry child. After finishing high school, she wanted to become an artist, and studied graphic arts at the Academy of Applied Arts in Vienna...
for her life's work
- Zeit Publishing Literature Award: John Burnside