Peace Prize of the German Book Trade
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The Peace Prize of the German Book Trade (German: Friedenspreis des Deutschen Buchhandels) is an international peace prize given yearly at the Frankfurt Book Fair in the Paulskirche in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. It has been awarded by the Börsenverein des Deutschen Buchhandels since 1950 and is endowed with 25,000 euros.
Traditionally, the President and leading political, cultural and diplomatic persons will attend the ceremony and ZDF TV will cover the event.
The committee for the prize currently includes members: Wolfgang Frühwald, Gottfried Honnefelder, Michael Krüger, Klaus-Dieter Lehmann, Jutta Limbach, Joachim Sartorius, Dieter Schormann (Director of the Börsenverein), Ole Schultheis, and Arnold Stadler.
Recipients
1950 - 1959
- 1950 - Max Tau
- 1951 - Albert Schweitzer
- 1952 - Romano Guardini
- 1953 - Martin Buber
- 1954 - Carl Jacob Burckhardt
- 1955 - Hermann Hesse
- 1956 - Reinhold Schneider
- 1957 - Thornton Wilder
- 1958 - Karl Jaspers
- 1959 - Theodor Heuss
1960 - 1969
- 1960 - Victor Gollancz
- 1961 - Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
- 1962 - Paul Tillich
- 1963 - Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker
- 1964 - Gabriel Marcel
- 1965 - Nelly Sachs
- 1966 - Augustin Bea and W. A. Visser't Hooft (together)
- 1967 - Ernst Bloch
- 1968 - Léopold Sédar Senghor
- 1969 - Alexander Mitscherlich
1970 - 1979
- 1970 - Alva Myrdal and Gunnar Myrdal (together)
- 1971 - Marion Gräfin Dönhoff
- 1972 - Janusz Korczak (posthumous)
- 1973 - Club of Rome
- 1974 - Frère Roger, prior of Taizé
- 1975 - Alfred Grosser
- 1976 - Max Frisch
- 1977 - Leszek Kolakowski
- 1978 - Astrid Lindgren
- 1979 - Yehudi Menuhin
1980 - 1989
- 1980 - Ernesto Cardenal
- 1981 - Lev Kopelev
- 1982 - George F. Kennan
- 1983 - Manès Sperber
- 1984 - Octavio Paz
- 1985 - Teddy Kollek
- 1986 - Władysław Bartoszewski
- 1987 - Hans Jonas
- 1988 - Siegfried Lenz
- 1989 - Václav Havel
1990 - 1999
- 1990 - Karl Dedecius
- 1991 - György Konrád
- 1992 - Amos Oz
- 1993 - Friedrich Schorlemmer
- 1994 - Jorge Semprún
- 1995 - Annemarie Schimmel
- 1996 - Mario Vargas Llosa
- 1997 - Yaşar Kemal
- 1998 - Martin Walser
- 1999 - Fritz Stern
2000 - 2009
- 2000 - Assia Djebar
- 2001 - Jürgen Habermas
- 2002 - Chinua Achebe
- 2003 - Susan Sontag
- 2004 - Péter Esterházy
- 2005 - Orhan Pamuk
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