Solothurner Literaturpreis
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The Solothurner Literaturpreis is a literary award
for an 'literary achievement by a German language
writer
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Awarded since 1994, the annual prize is 20,000 Swiss franc
s. It is named after the city of Solothurn
in Switzerland
.
Literary award
A literary award is an award presented to an author who has written a particularly lauded piece or body of work. There are awards for forms of writing ranging from poetry to novels. Many awards are also dedicated to a certain genre of fiction or non-fiction writing . There are also awards...
for an 'literary achievement by a 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....
writer
Writer
A writer is a person who produces literature, such as novels, short stories, plays, screenplays, poetry, or other literary art. Skilled writers are able to use language to portray ideas and images....
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Awarded since 1994, the annual prize is 20,000 Swiss franc
Swiss franc
The franc is the currency and legal tender of Switzerland and Liechtenstein; it is also legal tender in the Italian exclave Campione d'Italia. Although not formally legal tender in the German exclave Büsingen , it is in wide daily use there...
s. It is named after the city of Solothurn
Solothurn
The city of Solothurn is the capital of the Canton of Solothurn in Switzerland. The city also comprises the only municipality of the district of the same name.-Pre-roman settlement:...
in Switzerland
Switzerland
Switzerland name of one of the Swiss cantons. ; ; ; or ), in its full name the Swiss Confederation , is a federal republic consisting of 26 cantons, with Bern as the seat of the federal authorities. The country is situated in Western Europe,Or Central Europe depending on the definition....
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Winners
- 1994: Monika MaronMonika MaronMonika Maron is a German author, formerly of the German Democratic Republic. She moved in 1951 from West to East Berlin with her stepfather, Karl Maron, the GDR Minister of the Interior. She studied theatre and spent time as a directing assistant and as a journalist. In the late 1970s, she began...
- 1995: 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...
- 1996: Klaus MerzKlaus Merz- Life :As a teacher , Merz has worked in adult education. He has won several prices, e.g. the famous „Hermann-Hesse-Literaturpreis“ in 1997, the „Gottfried Keller-Preis“ in 2004 and the „Werkpreis der schweizerischen Schillerstiftung“ in 2005....
- 1997: Christoph RansmayrChristoph RansmayrChristoph 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...
- 1998: Thomas HürlimannThomas HürlimannThomas Hürlimann is a Swiss playwright and novelist.His 1989 novel Das Gartenhaus was published as The Couple in the United States in 1991.-External links:*. Goethe-Instituts Website...
- 1999: Birgit VanderbekeBirgit VanderbekeBirgit Vanderbeke is a German writer.Vanderbeke grew up in Frankfurt am Main after her family moved to the western part of Germany in 1961. She studied Law, Germanic and Romanic languages...
- 2000: Christoph HeinChristoph HeinChristoph 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...
- 2001: Anna Mitgutsch
- 2002: Erich HacklErich HacklErich Hackl is an Austrian novelist and short-story writer. His works have been translated into English, Spanish, French and Czech, though he is significantly better known in the German-speaking world...
- 2003: Hanna JohansenHanna JohansenHanna Johansen, born Hanna Margarete Meyer , is a Swiss writer.She studied classical philology, education and German studies at the Universities of Marburg and Göttingen...
- 2004: Barbara HonigmannBarbara HonigmannBarbara Honigmann is a German author and artist.Barbara Honigmann is the daughter of German-Jewish emigrants, who returned to East Berlin in 1947 after a period of exile in Great Britain. Her mother, Litzi Friedman, was the first wife of Kim Philby and her father, Georg Honigmann, was the chief...
- 2005: Kathrin Röggla
- 2006: Matthias ZschokkeMatthias Zschokke-Life:He attended drama school at the Schauspielhaus Bochum.Since 1980, he living as a writer and filmmaker in Berlin.He has written nine volumes of prose, eight plays, and three films.-Awards :...
- 2007: Peter Weber
- 2008: Jenny ErpenbeckJenny Erpenbeck-Life:Jenny Erpenbeck is the daughter of the physicist, philosopher and writer John Erpenbeck and the Arabic translator Doris Kilias. Her grandparents are the authors Fritz Erpenbeck and Hedda Zinner. In Berlin she attended an Advanced High School, where she graduated in 1985...
- 2009: Juli ZehJuli ZehJuli Zeh is a German novelist.Her first book was Adler und Engel , which won the 2002 Deutscher Bücherpreis for best debut novel. She traveled through Bosnia-Herzegovina in 2001, which became the basis for the book Die Stille ist ein Geräusch...
- 2010: Ulrike Draesner
See also
- German literatureGerman literatureGerman literature comprises those literary texts written in the German language. This includes literature written in Germany, Austria, the German part of Switzerland, and to a lesser extent works of the German diaspora. German literature of the modern period is mostly in Standard German, but there...
- List of literary awards
- List of poetry awards
- List of years in literature
- List of years in poetry