2001 in literature

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Literary Awards

  • Bertolt Brecht literature Price: Urs Widmer
  • Danuta Gleed Literary Award: Barbara Lambert, A Message for Mr. Lazarus
  • Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize: Eden Robinson, Monkey Beach
  • Peace Prize of the German Book Trade: Jürgen Habermas
  • Ingeborg Bachmann Prize: Michael Lentz, mother dying
  • Kurd - Laßwitz Price: Michael Marrak, Lord Gamma
  • Gabrielle Roy Prize for Criticism ( Association for Canadian and Quebec Literatures ): Fred Wah, Faking It
  • Georg Büchner Prize: Mayröcker
  • Great Literature Prize of the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts: Uwe Timm
  • Hubert Evans Non- Fiction Prize: Terry Glavin, The Last Great Sea: A Voyage Through the Human and Natural History of the North Pacific Ocean
  • Johann- Gottfried - Seume Literature Prize: Götz- Ulrich Coblenz, My walk from Arkona to Pisa. A diary
  • National Book Award: Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections ( Fiction ); Andrew Solomon, Saturn's Shadow: The dark world of depression ( Nonfiction ); Alan Dugan: Poems Seven: New and Complete Poetry ( Poetry ); Virginia Euwer Wolff: Hard to believe it (Young People's Literature)
  • Nobel Prize for Literature: V. S. Naipaul
  • Prix ​​Goncourt: Jean -Christophe Rufin, Rouge Brésil
  • Toucan Price: Uwe Timm for red
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