Overview
- The shortlist, unveiled Tuesday, features eight titles picked by a seven-member jury from 239 submissions by 132 publishers.
- Jurors stressed linguistic quality in an age of AI-generated text and looked for works that give readers practical orientation on current issues.
- The topics span artificial intelligence, medical ethics, free speech and law enforcement, geopolitics, business history, and literary biography.
- Authors on the list include Roberto Simanowski on AI, Bettina Schöne-Seifert on medical ethics, and Ronen Steinke on free speech in the justice system.
- The winner will be named on June 8 at Hamburg’s Elbphilharmonie, with €25,000 for the top prize and €2,500 for each of the other nominees.