German Booksellers Peace Prize 2009
Magris and Honnefelder
The Peace Prize of German booksellers ( German: Der Friedenspreis des Deutschen Buchhandels ) is an international award for literary, scientific and artistic figures for their contribution to the development of peace and mutual understanding between peoples. Established in 1949 , a prize of 25,000 euros is awarded annually by the German Book Exchange in the Frankfurt Book Fair . The award ceremony takes place at the Paulskirche church in Frankfurt .
Laureates
- 2017 - Margaret Atwood
- 2016 - Carolyn Emke
- 2015 - Navid Kermani
- 2014 - Jaron Lanier
- 2013 - Svetlana Aleksandrovna Aleksievich
- 2012 - Liao Yiwu
- 2011 - Boilem Sansal
- 2010 - David Grossman
- 2009 - Claudio Magris
- 2008 - Anselm Kiefer
- 2007 - Saul Friedlander
- 2006 - Wolf Lepenis
- 2005 - Orhan Pamuk
- 2004 - Peter Esterhazy
- 2003 - Susan Sontag
- 2002 - Chinua Achebe
- 2001 - Jürgen Habermas
- 2000 - Assia Jabar
- 1999 - Fritz Stern
- 1998 - Martin Walser
- 1997 - Yashar Kemal
- 1996 - Mario Vargas Llosa
- 1995 - Annemarie Schimmel
- 1994 - Jorge Semprun
- 1993 - Friedrich Schorlemmer
- 1992 - Amos Oz
- 1991 - György Conrad
- 1990 - Karl Dedetius
- 1989 - Vaclav Havel
- 1988 - Siegfried Lenz
- 1987 - Hans Jonas
- 1986 - Vladislav Bartoshevsky
- 1985 - Teddy Collek
- 1984 - Octavio Paz
- 1983 - Manes Sperber
- 1982 - George Kennan
- 1981 - Lev Kopelev
- 1980 - Ernesto Cardenal
- 1979 - Yehudi Menuhin
- 1978 - Astrid Lindgren
- 1977 - Leszek Kolakovsky
- 1976 - Max Frisch
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- 1973 - Club of Rome
- 1972 - Janusz Korczak
- 1971 - Marion Dengoff
- 1970 - Alva Myrdal and Gunnar Myrdal
- 1969 - Alexander Mitcherlich
- 1968 - Leopold Cedar Sengor
- 1967 - Ernst Bloch
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- 1965 - Nelly Sachs
- 1964 - Gabriel Marcel
- 1963 - Karl Friedrich von Weizsacker
- 1962 - Paul Johannes Tillich
- 1961 - Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
- 1960 - Victor Gollants
- 1959 - Theodore Hoyce
- 1958 - Karl Jaspers
- 1957 - Thornton Wilder
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- 1955 - Hermann Hesse
- 1954 - Karl Jacob Burkhardt
- 1953 - Martin Buber
- 1952 - Romano Guardini
- 1951 - Albert Schweitzer
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Literature
- Der Börsenverein des Deutschen Buchhandels 1825-2000. Ein geschichtlicher Aufriss / Hrsg. von Stephan Füssel, Georg Jäger und Hermann Staub. Frankfurt / Main: Buchhändler-Vereinigung, 2000