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The Leipzig Book Fair 2021 was only postponed to May and then canceled, but the renowned Leipzig Book Fair Prize will also be given in this pandemic spring.
Good news for all reading fans, because there are always award-winning books.
As always, the Leipzig Prize with a total of 60,000 euros will be awarded in three categories.
And these are nominated books:
Fiction
Iris Hanika: "Echo's chambers" (Droschl)
Judith Hermann: "At home" (S. Fischer)
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Christian Kracht: "Eurotrash" (Kiepenheuer & Witsch)
Friederike Mayröcker: “Because I am moss green in the morning.
Step to the window "(Suhrkamp)
Helga Schubert: "From getting up: A life in stories" (dtv)
Non-fiction / essay writing
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Heike Behrend: “A monkey became human.
An autobiography of ethnographic research "(Matthes & Seitz)
Dan Diner: “Another war.
Jewish Palestine and the Second World War 1935–1942 "(DVA)
Michael Hagner: “Foucault's pendulum and us.
On the occasion of an installation by Gerhard Richter "(Verlag Walther König)
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Christoph Möllers: “Degrees of freedom.
Elements of a liberal political mechanism "(Suhrkamp)
Uta Ruge: "Farmers, Land: The history of my village in a world context" (Kunstmann)
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Ann Cotten: translated from English "Pippins Tochters Taschentuch" by Rosmarie Waldrop (Suhrkamp)
Sonja Finck and Frank Heibert: translated from French (Québec) “The great crash.
Stories from Kitchike "by Louis-Karl Picard-Sioui (Secession)
Hinrich Schmidt-Henkel: translated from the Norwegian "The Birds" by Tarjei Vesaas (Guggolz)
Nikolaus Stingl and Dirk van Gunsteren: translated from English “USA Trilogy.
The 42nd degree of latitude / 1919 / The big money "by John Dos Passos (Rowohlt Verlag)
Timea Tankó: translated from Hungarian “Apropos Casanova.
The Breviary of St. Orpheus ”by Miklós Szentkuthy (The Other Library)
Award ceremony on May 28th
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The list of nominees was drawn up from 389 submissions by a seven-member jury, which includes Jens Bisky (chairman) Anne-Dore Krohn, Tobias Lehmkuhl, Andreas Platthaus, WELT editor Marc Reichwein, Katrin Schumacher and Katharina Teutsch.
"Who are we?
Who do we want to be?
These questions run through numerous books in the pandemic year, ”said the jury chairman.
The announcement of the winners and the award ceremony will take place on May 28, 2021 at 4 p.m. in the Congress Hall at Leipzig Zoo and will be streamed on the website www.leipziger-buchmesse.de
The book fair website provides information on digital events with the shortlisted candidates.
The (digital) reading festival “Leipzig reads extra” will take place from May 27th to 31st.
The award of the Leipzig Book Prize for European Understanding to Johny Pitts will take place on the evening of May 26th in Leipzig's Nikolaikirche.
The laudation is given by the editor, publisher and literary agent Elisabeth Ruge.
As part of the ceremony, the 2020 winner László Földényi will be honored retrospectively due to the corona.