Großer Literaturpreis der Bayerischen Akademie der Schönen Künste

The Grand Literature Award of the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts is awarded by the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts for the significant body of work of a writer since 1986. The award is endowed with 15,000 euros. Since 2008, the award is presented under the name of Thomas Mann's Literature Prize of the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts.

2009, the German Thomas Mann Society in Lübeck and the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts have agreed to give a common Mann price in the future. Under the name " Thomas Mann price of the Hanseatic city of Lübeck and the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts ", the price every year, awarded alternately in Lübeck and Munich.

Background

The Grand Prize for Literature is the successor of the literary prize, which was awarded from 1950 to 1985. The winners of the Grand Prize for Literature, and now the Thomas Mann Prize for Literature will be selected by an independent jury, which is elected every three years. It consists of three members of the Academy and two outsiders from academia or free literary life (writer, literary scholar and critic ).

In conjunction with the Grand Prize for Literature, the Wilhelm- house stone ceremony for services is awarded to cultural mediation. It is endowed with 5,000 € and replaces the literary gift of honor, which was awarded in 1952 to 1985.

Winners of the ( Great) literary prize

Laureate Thomas Mann Prize for Literature

• 2008 Peter Handke ( Foundation of the prize money back to the Academy )