Leipzig Book Award for European Understanding

The City of Leipzig awards the Leipzig Book Award for European Understanding (Leipziger Buchpreis zur Europäischen Verständigung) which has been given since 1994.^[1][2] The award is endowed with prize money of 20,000 Euro and is presented every year during the official opening of Leipzig Book Fair.^[1]

Recipients

Source:^[1][3][4]

• 1994 Ryszard Kapuściński (Poland)
• 1994 Eckhard Thiele (Germany)
• 1995 Péter Nádas (Hungary)
• 1995 Svetlana Geier (Germany)
• 1996 Aleksandar Tišma (Serbia)
• 1996 Fritz Mierau (Germany)
• 1997 Imre Kertész (Hungary)
• 1997 Antonín J. Liehm (Czech Republic)
• 1998 Svetlana Alexievich (Belarus)
• 1998 Ilma Rakusa (Switzerland)
• 1998 Andreas Tretner (Germany)
• 1999 Eric Hobsbawm (United Kingdom)
• 1999 Nenad Popović (Serbia)
• 2000 Hanna Krall (Poland)
• 2000 Peter Urban (Germany)
• 2001 Claudio Magris (Italy)
• 2001 Norbert Randow (Germany)
• 2002 Bora Ćosić (Serbia)
• 2002 Ludvík Kundera (Czech Republic)
• 2003 Hugo Claus (Belgium)
• 2003 Barbara Antkowiak (Germany)
• 2004 Dževad Karahasan (Bosnia and Herzegovina)
• 2004 Gábor Csordás (Hungary)
• 2005 Slavenka Drakulić (Croatia)
• 2006 Yurii Andrukhovych (Ukraine)
• 2007 Gerd Koenen (Germany)
• 2007 Michail Ryklin (Russia)
• 2008 Geert Mak (Netherlands)
• 2009 Karl Schlögel (Germany)
• 2010 György Dalos (Hungary)
• 2011 Martin Pollack (Austria)
• 2012 Ian Kershaw (United Kingdom)
• 2012 Timothy D. Snyder (United States)
• 2013 Klaus-Michael Bogdal (Germany)
• 2014 Pankaj Mishra (India)
• 2015 Mircea Cărtărescu (Romania)^[5]
• 2016 Heinrich August Winkler (Germany)
• 2017 Mathias Énard (France)
• 2018 Åsne Seierstad (Norway)
• 2019 Masha Gessen (United States/Russia)^[6]
• 2020 László F. Földényi (Hungary)^[7]
• 2021 Johnny Pitts (United Kingdom/United States)^[8][9]
• 2022 Karl-Markus Gauß (Austria)^[10]
• 2023 Maria Stepanova (Russia)^[11]
• 2024 Omri Boehm (Germany/Israel)^[12]