Erich Fried Prize
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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 Association for Literature and Language, based in Vienna
. The value of the prize, endowed by the office of the Chancellor of Austria
, is 14,600 euros. Each year the trustees of the Erich Fried Association select a juror, who nominates the winner of the prize for that year.
! Year
! Juror
! Recipient
|-
!1990
|Hans Mayer
|Christoph Hein
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!1991
|Ernst Jandl
|Bodo Hell
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!1992
|Christa Wolf
|Paul Parin
|-
!1993
|Walter Jens
|Robert Schindel
|-
!1994
|Adolf Muschg
|Jörg Steiner
|-
!1995
|Friederike Mayröcker
|Elke Erb
|-
!1996
|György Konrád
|Paul Nizon
|-
!1997
|Ilse Aichinger
|Gert Jonke
|-
!1998
|Volker Braun
|Bert Papenfuß
|-
!1999
|Elfriede Jelinek
|Elfriede Gerstl
|-
!2000
|György Dalos
|Klaus Schlesinger
|-
!2001
|Brigitte Kronauer
|Otto A. Böhmer
|-
!2002
|Christina Weiss
|Oskar Pastior
|-
!2003
|Robert Schindel
|Robert Menasse
|-
!2004
|Wilhelm Genazino
|Brigitte Oleschinski
|-
!2005
|Christoph Ransmayr
|Yaak Karsunke
|-
!2006
|Michael Krüger
|Marcel Beyer
|-
!2007
|Ilma Rakusa
|Peter Waterhouse
|-
!2008
|Katja Lange-Müller
|Alois Hotschnig
|-
|2009
|Josef Winkler
|Esther Dischereit>
|Urs Widmer
|Terézia Mora
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|Barbara Frischmuth
|Thomas Stangl (writer)>
Erich Fried
Erich Fried , an Austrian poet who settled in England, was known for his political-minded poetry. He was also a broadcaster, translator and essayist....
, and is awarded annually by the International Erich Fried Association for Literature and Language, based in Vienna
Vienna
Vienna is the capital and largest city of the Republic of Austria and one of the nine states of Austria. Vienna is Austria's primary city, with a population of about 1.723 million , and is by far the largest city in Austria, as well as its cultural, economic, and political centre...
. The value of the prize, endowed by the office of the Chancellor of Austria
Chancellor of Austria
The Federal Chancellor is the head of government in Austria. Its deputy is the Vice-Chancellor. Before 1918, the equivalent office was the Minister-President of Austria. The Federal Chancellor is considered to be the most powerful political position in Austrian politics.-Appointment:The...
, is 14,600 euros. Each year the trustees of the Erich Fried Association select a juror, who nominates the winner of the prize for that year.
Jurors and Recipients
! Juror
! Recipient
|-
!1990
|Hans Mayer
Hans Mayer
Hans Mayer was a German literary scholar. Mayer was also a jurist and social researcher and was internationally recognized as a critic, author and musicologist.- Life :...
|Christoph Hein
Christoph Hein
Christoph Hein is a German author and translator.He grew up in the village Bad Düben near Leipzig. Being a clergyman's son and thus not allowed to attend the Erweiterte Oberschule, he received secondary education at a gymnasium in the western part of Berlin. After his Abitur he jobbed inter alia...
|-
!1991
|Ernst Jandl
Ernst Jandl
Ernst Jandl was an Austrian writer, poet, and translator.- Poetry :Influenced by Dada he started to write experimental poetry, first published in the journal "Neue Wege" in 1952....
|Bodo Hell
Bodo Hell
Bodo Hell is an Austrian writer. He studied the organ with the Mozarteum, Salzburg, and in Vienna he studied Film and Television, Philosophy, German Studies and History. He lives in Vienna and Dachstein, Styria. He has worked with, among others, Friederike Mayröcker, Ernst Jandl, Liesl Ujvary...
|-
!1992
|Christa Wolf
Christa Wolf
Christa Wolf was a German literary critic, novelist, and essayist. She is one of the best-known writers to have emerged from the former East Germany.-Biography:...
|Paul Parin
Paul Parin
Paul Parin was a Swiss psychoanalyst, author and ethnologist.He was born in Polzela , near Celje, Slovenia, then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, into a family of assimilated Jews. He studied medicine in Zagreb, Graz and Zürich. In Zürich, he met Goldy Matthèy-Guenet who became his wife...
|-
!1993
|Walter Jens
Walter Jens
Walter 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...
|Robert Schindel
|-
!1994
|Adolf Muschg
Adolf Muschg
Adolf Muschg is a Swiss writer and professor of literature. Muschg was a member of the Gruppe Olten.- His life :...
|Jörg Steiner
|-
!1995
|Friederike Mayröcker
Friederike Mayröcker
Friederike Mayröcker is an Austrian poet.- Life :From 1946 to 1969 Mayröcker was an English teacher at several public schools in Vienna. In 1969 she took a release from working as a teacher and in 1977 she retired early.She started writing as a 15 year old...
|Elke Erb
|-
!1996
|György Konrád
György Konrád
György Konrád is a Hungarian novelist and essayist, known as an advocate of individual freedom. He was a dissident under the communist regime.- Life :...
|Paul Nizon
Paul Nizon
Paul Nizon is a Swiss art historian and writer.The son of a Russian chemist and a Swiss mother, after leaving school he studied history of art, classical archaeology and German language and literature in the universities of Berne and Munich. He obtained his doctorate in 1957 with a thesis on...
|-
!1997
|Ilse Aichinger
Ilse Aichinger
Ilse Aichinger is an Austrian writer noted for her accounts of her persecution by the Nazis because of her Jewish ancestry.- Life :...
|Gert Jonke
Gert Jonke
Gert Jonke was an Austrian poet, playwright and novelist.-Life:Jonke was born and educated in Klagenfurt, Austria. He attended the Gymnasium and the Conservatory...
|-
!1998
|Volker Braun
Volker Braun
Volker Braun is a German writer. His works include Provokation für mich -- a collection of poems written between 1959 and 1964 and published in 1965, a play, Die Kipper , and Das ungezwungne Leben Kasts .-Life:Volker Braun, who worked in...
|Bert Papenfuß
|-
!1999
|Elfriede Jelinek
Elfriede Jelinek
Elfriede Jelinek is an Austrian playwright and novelist. She was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2004 for her "musical flow of voices and counter-voices in novels and plays that, with extraordinary linguistic zeal, reveal the absurdity of society's clichés and their subjugating power."-...
|Elfriede Gerstl
Elfriede Gerstl
Elfriede Gerstl was an Austrian author and Holocaust-survivor. Gerstl, who was Jewish, was born in Vienna, where her father worked as a dentist.-Biography:...
|-
!2000
|György Dalos
György Dalos
György 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:...
|Klaus Schlesinger
|-
!2001
|Brigitte Kronauer
|Otto A. Böhmer
|-
!2002
|Christina Weiss
|Oskar Pastior
Oskar Pastior
Oskar Pastior was a Romanian-born German poet and translator. He was the only German member of Oulipo....
|-
!2003
|Robert Schindel
|Robert Menasse
Robert Menasse
Robert Menasse is an Austrian writer.As an undergraduate, Menasse studied in Vienna, Salzburg and Messina. In 1980 he completed his PhD thesis "Der Typus des Außenseiters im Literaturbetrieb...
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!2004
|Wilhelm Genazino
Wilhelm Genazino
Wilhelm 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...
|Brigitte Oleschinski
|-
!2005
|Christoph Ransmayr
Christoph Ransmayr
Christoph Ransmayr is an Austrian writer.- Life :Born in Wels, Upper Austria Ransmayr grew up in Roitham near Gmunden and the Traunsee. From 1972 to 1978 he studied philosophy and ethnology in Vienna...
|Yaak Karsunke
Yaak Karsunke
Yaak Karsunke is a German author and actor.The son of an engineer and the procurer of a publishing house, he grew up in the borough of Pankow. In 1949 his family moved to Friedenau. Here Karsunke attended Gymnasium . In 1953 he passed the Abitur and studied jurisprudence for three semesters...
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!2006
|Michael Krüger
Michael Krüger (writer)
Michael Krüger is a German writer, publisher and translator.Michael Krüger grew up in Berlin. After the graduating he was apprenticed to a publisher and later studied philosophy and literature...
|Marcel Beyer
Marcel Beyer
Marcel Beyer is a German writer.-Life:Marcel Beyer grew up in Kiel and Neuss. From 1987 to 1991 he studied German language and literature, English studies and Literary studies at the University of Siegen; in 1992 he obtained a Magister degree with a work on Friederike Mayröcker. Since 1987 he has...
|-
!2007
|Ilma Rakusa
|Peter Waterhouse
Peter Waterhouse
Peter Waterhouse is an Austrian writer and translator.Born in Berlin of a British father and an Austrian mother, he studied German and English literature at the University of Vienna, and later in Los Angeles, where he completed a PhD on Paul Celan...
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!2008
|Katja Lange-Müller
Katja Lange-Müller
Katja Lange-Müller is a German writer living in Berlin. Her works include several short stories and novellas, radio dramas, and dramatic works....
|Alois Hotschnig
Alois Hotschnig
Alois Hotschnig is an Austrian writer, whose stories have been described as having "the weird, creepy, and ambiguous quality of disturbing dreams". He was winner of the Erich Fried Prize in 2008, and shortlisted for the Jan Michalski Prize for Literature in 2010.-Works:* Leonardos Hände, 1992. Tr...
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|2009
|Josef Winkler
Josef Winkler
Josef Philip Winkler is a German politician and member of the German Green Party "Bündnis 90/Die Grünen". He has been a member of the Deutscher Bundestag, the German Parliament, since 2002. He is deputy head of the Greens in the German parliament since 2009.- Family :Winkler's mother, Chinnamma,...
|Esther Dischereit>
|Urs Widmer
|Terézia Mora
Terézia Mora
Terézia 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...
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|Barbara Frischmuth
Barbara Frischmuth
Barbara Frischmuth is an Austrian writer of poetry and prose.She is a member of the Grazer Gruppe , along with Peter Handke.- Books :*Die Klosterschule, 1968...
|Thomas Stangl (writer)>