Overview
- A seven‑member jury selected 15 titles—five per category—from 485 submissions entered by 177 publishers.
- The fiction list is female‑led with Helene Bukowski, Anja Kampmann, Katerina Poladjan and Elli Unruh, joined by the sole male nominee, Austria’s Norbert Gstrein.
- Nonfiction centers on National Socialism, exile and cultural history, featuring Ines Geipel, Marie‑Janine Calic, Jan Jekal and Manfred Pfister, plus a drawn work by Ulli Lust.
- Translations span Dutch, Icelandic, Spanish, Hungarian and Catalan, with past winner Timea Tankó returning for András Visky’s Die Aussiedlung.
- The prizes will be conferred at the Leipzig Book Fair’s opening in the Messe Glashalle, with a total endowment of €60,000 and the jury chaired by Katrin Schumacher.