Auszeichnung: Jugendliteraturpreis für Buchpreis-Gewinner Stanišić

Saša Stanišić is chosen as the winner of the German Jugendliterature Prize 2024. The Federal Family Ministry receives a prize at the Frankfurt Book Fair in this category and the amount of 72,000 euros is raised.

In Kinderbuch, «Wolf» by Saša Stanišić won the German Book Prize in 2019 with «Herkunft». The book originated from a Mobbing-Vorfall among the Jugendlichen in a Waldcamp.

“The author and the heritage figure were responsible for the damage to the social and business interests of the Frage, were own of the mobbing fuhrt. Trotz der Schwere des Themas besticht der Roman by Wortwitz, and the jury.

Jugend take seriousness

In the Sparte Jugendbuch Eva Rottmann was able to continue with “Kurz vor dem Rand”. In the middle of the Romans, a skater dies, who lives with my father in a high standard of living. “A more memorable Coming-of-Age novel, serious in all facets of the youth,” said the jury.

Like the best Bilderbuch-überzeugte «Wünsche», an escape story from South Vietnam. A theme migration at Sachbuch-Sieger is the documentary Comic «Games. Auf den Sprüchtenden des Afghanistan».

Special prize for Übersetzer

The Übersetzer Rolf Erdorf works with the Sonderpreis Gesamtwerk. 200 children’s and youth books from the Niederländischen have been included in the German übertragen. Der Sonderpreis Neue Talente went to Astrid Bührle-Gallet for his translation of the French novel «Möge der Tigris um dich weinen».

The Preisbuch der Jugendjury went and Alice Winn’s historical novel «Durch das große Feuer». There is talk of a secret love affair with friends in the first world war.

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