Albatros Literaturpreis

The international Albatros Literature Prize of the Günter Grass Foundation Bremen is awarded for contemporary narrative prose, poetry or essay writing in foreign languages, authors and their translators since 2006 every two years.

Selection and price

The award "goes to authors from around the world whose work is characterized by high literary quality and cultural and socio-political relevance ." In addition to " the excellent work of open thinking and the free discussion of all aspects of our lives, carrying with our world and our time " (quoted according to the guidelines for the award ). Is also awarded the outstanding translation into German.

The panel shall be convened by the Günter Grass Foundation. The right to nominate the winners lies exclusively with the jury. The award ceremony will take place in Bremen. The prize money of 25,000 euros for the author and 15,000 euros for the one or translators.

Award winners

  • 2006 Lidia Jorge (Author ), Karin von Schweder - Schreiner ( translator ), for her previous novels
  • 2008 Bora Cosic ( Author), Catherine Wolf Grießhaber ( translator ), for his work to date
  • 2010 David Grossman (Author ), Anne Birch Hauer ( translator ) flees for his novel A woman in front of a message
  • 2012 Dave Eggers (Author), Ulrike Wasel and Klaus Timmermann ( Translator ), for Zeitoun - Eggers did not take because of the debates on the Grass Poem What needs to be said participated in the ceremony.
  • 2014 Julie Otsuka (Author ), Katja Scholtz ( translator ) for the novel What we dreamed

Jury

The seven-person jury since 2006 include:

  • Immacolata Amodeo (Professor of Literature, Jacobs University Bremen)
  • Frankness Duve ( editor, publisher, editor, politician)
  • Michael Hulse (Professor of Literature, University of Warwick, Kent)
  • Wilfried F. Schoeller (author, literary critic, Secretary General of the German PEN )

The jury 2006, 2008 and 2010 also included:

  • Helmut D. Frielinghaus (formerly publishing director Luchterhand, editor, translator )
  • Peter Ripken (Director of the Society for the Advancement of Literature from Africa, Asia and Latin America / Frankfurt at the Frankfurt Book Fair)
  • Dietrich Simon (former publishing director of "people and the world," Managing Director of the S. Fischer Stiftung )

The 2012 jury was composed of:

  • Immacolata Amodeo (Professor of Literature, Jacobs University Bremen)
  • Frankness Duve ( editor, publisher, editor, politician)
  • Michael Hulse (Professor of Literature, University of Warwick, Kent)
  • Wilfried F. Schoeller (author, literary critic, Secretary General of the German PEN )
  • Peter Ripken (Director of the Society for the Advancement of Literature from Africa, Asia and Latin America / Frankfurt at the Frankfurt Book Fair)
  • Dietrich Simon (former publishing director of "people and the world," Managing Director of the S. Fischer Stiftung )
  • Joachim Sartorius (Author, Translator, Managing Berliner Festspiele GmbH)
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