This year, the writer Tomer Gardi, born in Galilee in 1974, received the Leipzig Book Fair Prize in the Fiction category for his novel “A Round Thing”.
Half of the book, published by Graz-based Verlag Droschl and consisting of two mirror stories, was written by Gardi in German and half translated from Hebrew by Anne Birkenhauer.
Uljana Wolf, born in Berlin in 1979, was honored in the non-fiction category for her essays and speeches published by Kookbooks under the title "Etymological Gossip".
And the prize for the best translation went to Anne Weber, born in Offenbach in 1964, who translated Cécile Wajsbrot's novel "Nevermore" from the French for Wallstein Verlag.
441 works were submitted for this year's Leipzig Book Fair prize.
Five books were nominated in each category.
The prize is endowed with a total of 60,000 euros: All nominees receive 1,000 euros each, the winners 15,000 euros each.
The awards were presented in a face-to-face event in the glass hall of the Leipzig Exhibition Center on Thursday.
The jury, chaired by critic Insa Wilke, also includes Moritz Baßler, Anne-Dore Krohn, Miryam Schellbach, Shirin Sojitrawalla, Katharina Teutsch and Andreas Platthaus, the head of literature at the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.