The German Book Prize is awarded annually by the Börsenverein des Deutschen Buchhandels, the German Publishers and Booksellers Association, to the best German language

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....

 novel of the year. The winner is awarded € 25,000, the five shortlisted authors receive € 2,500 each. It is presented annually on 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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The prize was created in 2005 to heighten awareness for authors writing in German. It is based on literary prizes as the Man Booker Prize

Man Booker Prize

The Man Booker Prize for Fiction is a literary prize awarded each year for the best original full-length novel, written in the English language, by a citizen of the Commonwealth of Nations, Ireland, or Zimbabwe. The winner of the Man Booker Prize is generally assured of international renown and...

 or the Prix Goncourt

Prix Goncourt

The Prix Goncourt is a prize in French literature, given by the académie Goncourt to the author of "the best and most imaginative prose work of the year"...

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Award winners

• 2011 Eugen Ruge, In Zeiten des abnehmenden Lichts (In Times of Fading Light)
• 2010 Melinda Nadj Abonji, Tauben fliegen auf
• 2009 Kathrin Schmidt, Du stirbst nicht
• 2008 Uwe Tellkamp
  Uwe Tellkamp
  Uwe Tellkamp is a German writer and physician. He practised medicine until 2004. Before the fall of communism, he was enlisted in the National People's Army as a tank commander and imprisoned when he refused to break up a demonstration in October 1989...
  
  , Der Turm
• 2007 Julia Franck
  Julia Franck
  Julia Franck is a German writer.In 1978 Julia Franck and her family moved to West Berlin and later to Schleswig-Holstein. She studied German Literature and American Studies at the Free University of Berlin and spent some time in the United States, Mexico and Guatemala...
  
  , Die Mittagsfrau, translated as The Blindness of the Heart
• 2006 Katharina Hacker
  Katharina Hacker
  Katharina Hacker is a German author best known for her award-winning novel Die Habenichtse . Hacker studied philosophy, history and Jewish studies at the University of Freiburg and the University of Jerusalem...
  
  , Die Habenichtse, translated as The Have-Nots
• 2005 Arno Geiger
  Arno Geiger
  Arno Geiger is an Austrian novelist.Geiger grew up in the village of Wolfurt near Bregenz. He studied German studies, ancient history and comparative literature at the universities of Innsbruck and Vienna. He has worked as a freelance writer since 1993...
  
  , Es geht uns gut

External links

• The German Book Prize, official website.
• The German Book Prize, official website