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Heinrich-Böll-Preis

Literary prize of Germany, awarded by the City of Cologne

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The Heinrich-Böll-Preis is a literary prize of Germany, awarded by the City of Cologne in memory of Nobel Prize winner Heinrich Böll. The prize money is €30,000.^[1] The prize is awarded "for outstanding achievements – even by still unknown authors – in the field of German-language literature".^[1]^[2]

Recipients

1980 Hans Mayer
1981 Peter Weiss
1982 Wolfdietrich Schnurre
1983 Uwe Johnson
1984 Helmut Heißenbüttel
1985 Hans Magnus Enzensberger
1986 Elfriede Jelinek
1987 Ludwig Harig
1988 Dieter Wellershoff [de]
1989 Brigitte Kronauer
1990 Günter de Bruyn
1991 Rainald Goetz
1992 Hans Joachim Schädlich
1993 Alexander Kluge
1995 Jürgen Becker
1997 W. G. Sebald
1999 Gerhard Meier
2001 Marcel Beyer
2003 Anne Duden
2005 Ralf Rothmann
2007 Christoph Ransmayr
2009 Uwe Timm
2011 Ulrich Peltzer
2013 Eva Menasse
2015 Herta Müller^[3]
2017 Ilija Trojanow^[3]
2019 Juli Zeh^[3]
2021 José F. A. Oliver [de]
2023 Kathrin Röggla

References

^ ^a ^b "Heinrich-Böll-Preis". Literaturpreis Gewinner (in German). 30 July 2011. Retrieved 26 January 2021.
^ "Heinrich-Böll-Preis – Preise & Stipendien". literaturport.de (in German). Retrieved 26 January 2021.
^ ^a ^b ^c "Heinrich-Böll-Preis für Literatur". www.stadt-koeln.de.