Congratulations:

Lower Rhine Literature Prize to Sascha Reh for his debut novel FALSCHER FRÜHLING

Wetzlar Fantasy Prize to Markus Orths for his latest novel DIE TARNKAPPE

Mondsee Poetry Prize to Nadia Küchenmeister for ALLE LICHTER

Hotlist Prize 2010 (Best Book of Independent Publishers) to Ulrike Almut Sandig for FLAMINGOS

LUCHS Award for Children's and Youth Literature to Jana Scheerer for MEIN INNERER ELVIS

Sylt Island Chronicler Stipend to Gunther Geltinger

Silberschwein Award of the lit.Cologne to Ulrike Almut Sandig

Marie-Luise Kaschnitz Prize to Mirko Bonné

Christian Wagner Prize to Helga M. Novak for her lifetime achievement in poetry

Würdigungspreis (Austrian State Prize) for Literature to Margit Schreiner

Hölty Poetry Prize to Paulus Böhmer

Robert Walser Prize to Patrick Hofmann for his debut DIE LETZTE SAU

Lower Rhine Literature Prize to Markus Orths

Solothurn Literature Prize to Juli Zeh in recognition of her »many-voiced and concise contemporary work«

Gerty Spies Prize to Juli Zeh for her novel CORPUS DELICTI

Droste Prize for Emerging Talent to Silke Scheuermann

Carl Amery Prize to Juli Zeh in recognition of her contribution to a critical contemporary literature

Rhenish Literature Prize to Burkhard Spinnen for his short fiction DER RESERVETORWART

Georg Konell Prize to Silke Scheuermann for her poetry volume ÜBER NACHT IST ES WINTER

Shortlisted for the 'aspekte Award' for Best Debut 2008: MENSCH ENGEL by Gunther Geltinger

Ernst Meister Lyric Prize for Emerging Talent to Mirko Bonné for DIE REPUBLIK DER SILBERFISCHE

Telekom Austria Award to Markus Orths for his forthcoming novel DAS ZIMMERMÄDCHEN (The Chambermaid), runner-up in the 2008 competition for the prestigious Ingeborg Bachmann Award at the German Literature Days in Klagenfurt, Austria

Prix Cévennes for best European novel 2008 to Juli Zeh for the French edition of SPIELTRIEB (La Fille sans Qualités, published by Actes Sud)

Prix Relay du Roman d'Evasion 2008 to Mirko Bonné for the French edition of DER EISKALTE HIMMEL (Un Ciel de Glace, published by Editions Rivages)

The stage production of SCHILF by Juli Zeh is winner of the Audience Award at the »Radikal Jung« Festival, one of the most important platforms of contemporary German theater.

Jürgen Bansemer & Ute Nyssen Prize for stage writing to Juli Zeh for her play CORPUS DELICTI commissioned for the Ruhr-Triennale 2007

Friedrich Hölderlin Prize to Ror Wolf in recognition of his contribution to German language and literature

The radio version of RAOUL TRANCHIRERS BEMRKUNGEN ÜBER DIE STILLE by Ror Wolf has been announced Best Radio Play 2007 (produced by SWR).

The Spanish edition of Mareike Krügel's novel DIE TOCHTER MEINES VATERS, published by Lengua de Trapo in Madrid, is nominated for the Premio Cálamo 2007.

Hermann Hesse Prize for Emerging Talent to Franziska Gerstenberg

Grimmelshausen Prize for Emerging Talent to Silke Scheuermann for DIE STUNDE ZWISCHEN HUND UND WOLF

German Audio Book Prize to Burkhard Spinnen for BELGISCHE RIESEN

Sir Walter Scott Prize (Golden Laurels) to Markus Orths for CATALINA for Best Historical Novel 2006.

Per Olov Enquist Prize to Juli Zeh.

Ingeborg Bachmann Prize to Inka Parei for the opening scene of her new novel WAS DUNKELHEIT WAR (What Darkness Was).

Hermann Hesse Prize for Emerging Talent to Silke Scheuermann.

Hebbel Prize to Mareike Krügel.