111 publishers nominate 172 books for the German Book Prize 2023. The award ceremony will take place in autumn as part of the Frankfurt Book Fair.
The German Book Trade Association announced that 111 publishers nominated exactly 172 titles for the German Book Prize this year.
The decision on the best new publication will not be made until the evening of the award ceremony at the Frankfurt Book Fair on October 16th.
The German Book Prize is an important award in the book industry and has been awarded since 2005.
Last year, 124 publishers submitted 202 works.
The prize was finally awarded to Kim de l'Horizon for the novel Blood Book.
German Book Prize: From Longlist to Shortlist
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In 2022, Kim de l'Horizon won the German Book Prize with "Blutbuch".
This year 172 titles have been nominated.
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In a multi-stage process, the jury first selects 20 titles for the so-called long list, which will be announced on August 22nd.
From this, the six best novels will then be selected for the shortlist, which will be published on September 19th.
The winner receives prize money of 25,000 euros, the other five authors on the shortlist each receive 2,500 euros.
Crime tip: The most exciting titles for Easter
Percival Everett "The Trees": Shortlisted for the 2022 Booker Prize. USA, early 21st century: In the southern town of Money, several men are murdered: mostly fat, stupid and white.
Next to each corpse appears a body bearing the features of Emmett Till, a black boy lynched in 1955.
© Hanser
Hubertus Borck "The Clinic" - in the style of Sebastian Fitzek: A bicycle accident, hospital, coma.
When a young father is no longer in acute danger, he suddenly dies.
The widow is convinced that he was killed.
Nobody believes her until forensic medicine confirms her suspicions © Rowohlt
Patricia Highsmith "Strangers on a Train": Two strangers on a New York-Texas train discover and plan the perfect alibi...for two murders.
From a moment of inattention, Guy becomes Bruno's accomplice, taking him down a slippery slope where there is no holding, morality or escape.
© Diogenes
The classic spy novel "The Spy Who Came in from the Cold" by John le Carré: British agent Alec Leamas is responsible for East Germany.
Undercover, he switches sides to protect his informants.
He realizes too late that he has become the plaything of an intrigue.
When the woman he loves is in danger, there is a dramatic showdown at the Berlin Wall.
© Ullstein
Cover of Kurt Palm's "The Shark in the System"Kurt Palm "The Shark in the System": The teacher Franziska Steinbrenner has finally won the custody battle over her daughter.
The policeman Philip Hoffmann is blackmailed by his ex-lover.
Meanwhile, a man is sitting in his apartment, plotting revenge.
Next to him is an assault rifle with 42 bullets in the magazine.
Three people whose lives are intertwined.
They don't know each other, but their paths will cross in a fatal way.
© Leykam
Cover to "Die Tote im Götakanal" by Sjöwall and WahlööThe founders of the Swedish police crime are a must: "Die Tote im Götakanal" - A body is recovered from the Göta Canal.
She could only have lain in the mud of the lock basin for a few days - you can still see that the young woman was dark-haired and pretty.
As the autopsy shows, she was abused before her death.
Crime scene: unknown.
© Rowohlt
Don't Miss Michael Robotham's Thy Will Be Done CoverMichael Robotham Thy Will Be Done Can't Be Missed.
The thriller series about psychotherapist Joe O'Loughlin, who suffers from Parkinson's disease, is more than exciting.
© Goldman
Cover of Agatha Christie's AlibiAgatha Christie's Alibi: A Case for Poirot: Roger Ackroyd's great love Mrs Ferrars is said to have murdered her first husband.
Now she is dead herself, died of a veronal overdose.
Was it suicide?
Has she been blackmailed?
In the newspaper, Ackroyd finds one final clue as to the circumstances of her death.
But before he can share his knowledge, he is murdered.
© Atlantic Verlag
Cover of Stieg Larsson's Infatuation"Infatuation" is the prelude to Stieg Larsson's grandiose trilogy: What Happened to Harriet Vanger?
Disappeared without a trace during a family reunion, her fate remains unclear for decades.
Until the journalist Mikael Blomkvist and the investigator Lisbeth Salander investigate on behalf of the uncle.
© Heyne
Cover of Jo Nesbø's Blood MoonBlood Moon is his best Harry Hole crime novel to date.
Harry Hole burned all bridges behind him.
In Los Angeles, he almost drinks himself to death as one of the countless stranded people.
At the same time, two young women are murdered in Oslo.
Inspector Katrine Bratt requests Harry Hole in vain, because the police are no longer interested in the specialist in serial murders.
© Ullstein
The speaker of the jury this year is the freelance critic Katharina Teutsch.
Other members are the publicist Shila Behjat, the literary scholar Heinz Drügh from the Frankfurt Goethe University, Melanie Mühl from the
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
, Lisa Schumacher from the Steinmetz'sche bookstore in Offenbach, Florian Valerius from the Gegenlicht bookstore in Trier and Matthias Weichelt from the magazine "Sense and Form".
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81 of the participating publishers come from Germany, 20 from Austria and 10 from Switzerland.
Each publisher may submit a maximum of two novels that have been published since October 2022 or will be published by mid-September.
Of the 172 books submitted, 5 were published last fall, 97 this spring and 70 are yet to be published.
The jury can also request additional titles from a list of 105 titles recommended by the publishers.
The German Book Prize is awarded by the Book Culture and Reading Promotion Foundation of the German Book Trade Association.
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