International Literature Award

German literary award

International Literature Award (German: Internationaler Literaturpreis – Haus der Kulturen der Welt) is a German literary award for international prose translated into German for the first time.[1] The prize has been awarded annually by the Haus der Kulturen der Welt and the foundation “Elementarteilchen” since 2009.[1] Winning authors receive €20,000 and the translators €15,000.[2] The award has compared as the German near-equivalent of the Best Translated Book Award or Independent Foreign Fiction Prize.[2] In 2020, due to COVID-19 pandemic, the award was given to all six shortlisted titles, with the prize money divided equally.[3]

## Winners and shortlists

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Blue Ribbon () = winner

### 2009

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* Daniel Alarcón, Lost City Radio (English, trans. Friederike Meltendorf)[4][5]
* Mahmoud Dowlatabadi, زوال کلنل (Farsi, trans. Bahman Nirumand)
* Rawi Hage, De Niro's Game (English, trans. Gregor Hens)
* Aleksandar Hemon, Lazarus (English, trans. Rudolf Hermstein)
* Martín Kohan, Dos veces junio (Spanish, trans. Peter Kultzen)
* Dinaw Mengestu, The beautiful Things that Heaven bears (English, trans. Volker Oldenburg)

### 2010

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* Édouard Glissant, La terre magnétique: les errances de Rapa Nui, l'île de Pâques (French, trans. Beate Thill)
* Yasmina Khadra, Ce que le jour doit à la nuit (French, trans. Regina Keil-Sagawe)
* Yiyun Li, The Vagrants (English, trans. Anette Grube)
* Shahriar Mandanipour, Censoring an Iranian Love Story (English, trans. Ursula Ballin)
* Dinaw Mengestu, How to read the Air (English, trans. Volker Oldenburg)
* Daniyal Mueenuddin, In other Rooms, other Wonders (English, trans. Brigitte Heinrich)
* Marie NDiaye, Trois femmes puissantes (French, trans. Claudia Kalscheuer)[6]

### 2011

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* José Eduardo Agualusa, Barroco tropical (Portuguese, trans. Michael Kegler)
* Joanna Bator, Piaskowa góra (Polish, trans. Esther Kinsky)
* Edwidge Danticat, The Dew Breaker (English, trans. Susann Urban)
* Mathias Énard, Zone (French, trans. Holger Fock and Sabine Müller)
* Elias Khoury, يالو (Arabic, trans. Leila Chamman)
* Mikhail Shishkin, Венерин Волос (Russian, trans. Andreas Tretner)[7]

### 2012

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* Jaume Cabré, Jo confesso (Catalan, trans. Kirsten Brandt and Petra Zickmann)
* Mircea Cărtărescu, Corpul (Romanian, trans. Gerhardt Csejka and Ferdinand Leopold)
* Nedim Gürsel, Allah’ιn Kιzlarι (Turkish, trans. Barbara Yurtdas)
* Tom McCarthy, C (English, trans. Bernhard Robben)
* Péter Nádas, Párhuzamos történetek (Hungarian, trans. Christina Viragh)
* Téa Obreht, The Tiger’s Wife (English, trans. Bettina Abarbanell)

### 2013

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* Andrei Bitov, Преподаватель симметрии (Russian, trans. Rosemarie Tietze)
* Teju Cole, Open City (English, trans. Christine Richter-Nilsson)[8][9]
* Lloyd Jones, Hand me down World (English, trans. Grete Osterwald)
* Valeria Luiselli, Los Ingrávidos (Spanish, trans. Dagmar Ploetz-Timm)
* Zakhar Prilepin, Санькя (Russian, trans. Erich Klein and Susanne Macht)
* Jean Rolin, Un chien mort après lui (French, trans. Holger Fock and Sabine Müller)

### 2014

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* Zsófia Bán, Amikor még csak az állatok éltek (Hungarian, trans. Terézia Mora)
* Georgi Gospodinov, Физика на тъгата (Bulgarian, trans. Alexander Sitzmann)
* Mohsin Hamid, How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia (English, trans. Eike Schönfeld)
* Bernardo Kucinski, K. (Portuguese, trans. Sarita Brandt)
* Dany Laferrière, L'énigme du retour (French, trans. Beate Thill)[10]
* Madeleine Thien, Dogs at the Perimeter (English, trans. Almuth Carstens)

### 2015

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* NoViolet Bulawayo, We Need New Names (English, trans. Miriam Mandelkow)
* Patrick Chamoiseau, L'empreinte à Crusoé (French, trans. Beate Thill)
* Daša Drndić, Sonnenschein (Croatian, trans. Brigitte Döbert and Blanka Stipetić)
* Gilbert Gatore, Le passé devant soi (French, trans. Katja Meintel)
* Amos Oz, הבשורה על-פי יהודה (Hebrew, trans. Mirjam Pressler) [11]
* Krisztina Tóth, Akvárium (Hungarian, trans. György Buda)

### 2016

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* Johannes Anyuru, En storm kom från paradiset (Swedish, trans. Paul Berf)
* Joanna Bator, Ciemno, prawie noc (Polish, trans. Lisa Palmes)
* Alexander Ilitschewski, Перс (Russian, trans. Andreas Tretner)
* Valeria Luiselli, La historia de mis dientes (Spanish, trans. Dagmar Ploetz)
* Shumona Sinha, Assommons les pauvres! (French, trans. Lena Müller)[12]
* Ivan Vladislavić, Double Negative (English, trans. Thomas Brückner)

### 2017

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* Hamed Abboud, يصنع كعكة عيد (Arabic, trans. Larissa Bender)
* Alberto Barrera Tyszka, Patria o muerte (Spanish, trans. Matthias Strobel)
* Han Kang, 채식주의자 (Korean, trans. Ki-Hyang Lee)
* Amanda Lee Koe, Ministry of Moral Panic (English, trans. Zoë Beck)
* Fiston Mwanza Mujila, Tram 83 (French, trans. Katharina Meyer and Lena Müller) [13]
* Ziemowit Szczerek, Przyjdzie Mordor i nas zje, czyli Tajna historia Słowian (Polish, trans. Thomas Weiler)

### 2018

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* Anuk Arudpragasam, The Story of a Brief Mariage (English, trans. Hannes Meyer)
* Virginie Despentes, Vernon Subutex (French, trans. Claudia Steinitz)
* Maxim Ossipow, Nach der Ewigkeit (trans. Birgit Veit)
* Ivana Sajko, Ljubavni roman (Croatian, trans. Alida Bremer)
* Éric Vuillard, L'ordre du jour (French, trans. Nicola Denis)
* Eliot Weinberger, The Ghosts of Birds (English, trans. Beatrice Faßbender)

### 2019

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* Hélène Cixous, Homère est morte (French, trans. Claudia Simma)
* Zoltán Danyi, A dögeltakarító (Hungarian, trans. Terézia Mora)
* Ariana Harwicz, Mátate, amor (Spanish, trans. Dagmar Ploetz)
* Fernanda Melchor, Temporada de huracanes (Spanish, trans. Angelica Ammar)
* Gerald Murnane, Border Districts (English, trans. Rainer G. Schmidt)
* Yishai Sarid, מפלצת הזיכרון (Hebrew, trans. Ruth Achlama)

### 2020

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All six shortlisted titles were given the award.[3]

* Yevgenia Belorusets, Щасливі падіння (Ukrainian/Russian, trans. Claudia Dathe)
* Amir Hassan Cheheltan, محفل عاشقان ادب (Farsi, trans. Jutta Himmelreich)
* Angel Igov, Кротките (Bulgarian, trans. Andreas Tretner)
* James Noël, Belle Merveille (French, trans. Rike Bolte)
* Chigozie Obioma, An Orchestra of Minorities (English, trans. Nicolai von Schweder-Schreiner)
* Isabel Waidner, Gaudy Bauble (English, trans. Ann Cotten)

### 2021

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* Fatima Daas, La petite dernière (French, trans. Sina de Malafosse)
* Jonas Eika, Efter solen (Danish, trans. Ursel Allenstein)
* Fang Fang, 软埋 (Mandarin, trans. Michael Kahn-Ackermann)
* Ava Farmehri, Through the sad Wood our Corpses will hang (English, trans. Sonja Finck)
* Nastassja Martin, Croire aux fauves (French, trans. Claudia Kalscheuer)
* Jenny Offill, Weather (English, trans. Melanie Walz)

### 2022

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* Can Xue, 新世纪爱情故事 (Mandarin, trans. Karin Betz)
* Aleksandar Hemon, My Parents: An Introduction / This Does Not Belong to You (English, trans. Henning Ahrens)
* Juhani Karila, Pienen hauen pyydystys (Finnish, trans. Maximilian Murmann)
* Cristina Morales, Lectura fácil (Spanish, trans. Friederike von Criegern)[14]
* Adania Shibli, تفصيل ثانوي (Arabic, trans. Günther Orth)
* Andrea Tompa, Omertà. Hallgatások könyve (Hungarian, trans. Terézia Mora)

### 2023

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* Don Mee Choi, DMZ Colony (English, trans. Uljana Wolf)
* Verónica Gerber Bicecci, Conjunto vacío (Spanish, trans. Birgit Weilguny)
* Cherie Jones, How the One-Armed Sister Sweeps Her House (English, trans. Karen Gerwig)
* Péter Nádas, Rémtörténetek (Hungarian, trans. Heinrich Eisterer)
* Mariette Navarro, Ultramarins (French, trans. Sophie Beese)
* Mohamed Mbougar Sarr, La plus secrète mémoire des hommes (French, trans. Holger Fock and Sabine Müller)
* Maria Stepanova, Девушки без одежды (Russian, trans. Olga Radetzkaja)
* Eva Viežnaviec, Па што ідзеш, воўча? (Belarusian, trans. Tina Wünschmann)

Source: [15]

## References

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1. ^ a b International Literature Award Archived 2013-02-11 at archive.today, official website.
2. ^ a b "Internationaler Literaturpreis – HKW". complete review. May 29, 2014. Retrieved May 29, 2014.
3. ^ a b "Internationaler Literaturpreis 2020". HKW.de. Haus der Kulturen der Welt. Retrieved May 13, 2023.
4. ^ Heredia, J (2012). "The task of the translator: An interview with Daniel Alarcón". Latino Studies. 10 (3): 395–409\. doi:10.1057/lst.2012.22.395-409&rft.date=2012&rft_id=info:doi/10.1057/lst.2012.22&rft.aulast=Heredia&rft.aufirst=J&rfr_id=info:sid/en.wikipedia.org:International+Literature+Award" class="Z3988">
5. ^ "Literaturpreis für Daniel Alarcón Internationaler Literaturpreis erstmalig vergeben". Die Berliner Literaturkritik (in German). September 30, 2009. Retrieved October 11, 2012.
6. ^ "Internationaler Literaturpreis an Marie NDiaye". Boersenblatt (in German). September 30, 2010. Retrieved October 11, 2012.
7. ^ Von Sophie Werner (June 15, 2011). "Bekanntgabe Preisträger 2011 Internationaler Literaturpreis wird verliehen". Die Berliner Literaturkritik (in German). Retrieved October 11, 2012.
8. ^ Silke Bartlick (May 2, 2013). "Germany's International Literature Award honors world's best books". DW. Retrieved May 31, 2013.
9. ^ Aygül Cizmecioglu (May 31, 2013). "German literature prize for Teju Cole's debut NYC novel". DW. Retrieved May 31, 2013.
10. ^ "Internationaler Literaturpreis – Haus der Kulturen der Welt 2014". Haus der Kulturen der Welt. 2014. Retrieved June 23, 2014.
11. ^ Sabine Peschel (June 29, 2015). "Amos Oz wins major German literature award". DeutscheWelle. Retrieved June 30, 2015.
12. ^ "Erschlagt die Armen!" (German). hkw.de. Retrieved June 14, 2016.
13. ^ Sabine Peschel (June 20, 2017). "International Literature Aw goes to Fiston Mwanza Mujila's 'Tram 83'". DW. Retrieved July 20, 2017.
14. ^ "Internationaler Literaturpreis geht an Cristina Morales und Friederike von Criegern". Der Spiegel (in German). June 22, 2022. Retrieved August 16, 2022.
15. ^ "Shortlist Internationaler Literaturpreis 2023". hkw.de (in German). August 16, 2023. Retrieved August 17, 2023.

## External links

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* International Literature Award, official website.