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Georg Büchner Prize
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literature award in the German language area
Key facts
- Awarded for
- authors writing in the German language whose work is considered especially meritorious and who have made a significant contribution to contemporary German culture
- Location
- Darmstadt
- Country
- Germany
- Presented by
- Deutsche Akademie für Sprache und Dichtung
- Reward
- €50,000
- Website
- www .deutscheakademie .de /en /awards /georg-buechner-preis
via Wikipedia infobox
Official website
Georg-Büchner-Preis / Deutsche Akademie für Sprache und Dichtung
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- literary award
- Named after
- Georg Büchner
- Country
- Germany
- Location
- Darmstadt
- Official website
- www.deutscheakademie.de/de/auszeichnungen/georg-buechner-preis
- Image
- 816 georg-buechner-preis-1923-003.jpg
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- inception
- 1923-01-01
- category for recipients of this award
- Category:Georg Büchner Prize winners
- prize money
- 40000
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Encyclopedic overview
The Georg Büchner Prize (German: Georg-Büchner-Preis) is the most important literary prize for German language literature. The award is named after dramatist and writer Georg Büchner, author of Woyzeck and Leonce and Lena. The Georg Büchner Prize is awarded annually for authors "writing in the German language who have notably emerged through their oeuvre as essential contributors to the shaping of contemporary German cultural life".
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Georg Büchner Prize” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.