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The Best German Novels of the Twentieth Century is a list of books compiled in 1999 by Literaturhaus München and Bertelsmann, in which 99 prominent German authors, literary critics, and scholars of German ranked the most significant German-language novels of the twentieth century. [1]
Why We Took the Car (German: Tschick [ˈtʃɪk]) is a youth novel by Wolfgang Herrndorf first published in German by Rowohlt Verlag in 2010. The English edition, translated by Tim Mohr, was published by Scholastic in 2014. It deals with the unconventional friendship between a 14-year-old middle class boy and a Russian late repatriate youngster.
The winner is awarded €25,000, while the five shortlisted authors receive €2,500 each. It is presented annually during the Frankfurt Book Fair. The prize was created in 2005, as a successor to the Deutscher Bücherpreis, to heighten awareness for authors writing in German.
Friedenspreis des Deutschen Buchhandels is an international peace prize awarded annually by the Börsenverein des Deutschen Buchhandels (English: German Publishers and Booksellers Association), [1] which runs the Frankfurt Book Fair. The award ceremony is held in the Paulskirche in Frankfurt. The prize has been awarded since 1950.
Based on the BBC version of Big Read, it was designed as a game show to determine the top 50 books read and liked by the German people. An initial list of 200 books was sent to more than 10,000 bookshops to start the survey. 60,000 votes were already cast within the first week. Four weeks later, the list had grown to 12,615 book nominations ...
Der Kanon (German pronunciation: [deːɐ̯ ˈkaːnɔn], "The Canon") or more precisely Marcel-Reich-Ranickis Kanon is a large anthology of exemplary works of German literature. Edited by the literary critic Marcel Reich-Ranicki (1920–2013), he called the anthology, announced on 18 June 2001 in the German news magazine Der Spiegel under the ...
Guide to the Study and Use of Reference Books (3rd ed.). American Library Association. Albert Ward (1974). Book production, fiction and the German reading public: 1740-1800. Clarendon Press. ISBN 0198181574. Ronald A. Fullerton (1977). "Creating a Mass Book Market in Germany: The Story of the "Colporteur Novel" 1870-1890". Journal of Social ...
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