Leipzig Book Award for European Understanding
The City of Leipzig awards the Leipzig Book Award for European Understanding which has been given since 1994. The award is endowed with prize money of 20,000 euros and is presented every year during the official opening of the Leipzig Book Fair.
Recipients
Source:- 1994: Ryszard Kapuściński
- 1994: Eckhard Thiele
- 1995: Péter Nádas
- 1995: Svetlana Geier
- 1996: Aleksandar Tišma
- 1996: Fritz Mierau
- 1997: Imre Kertész
- 1997: Antonín J. Liehm
- 1998: Svetlana Alexievich
- 1998: Ilma Rakusa
- 1998: Andreas Tretner
- 1999: Eric Hobsbawm
- 1999: Nenad Popović
- 2000: Hanna Krall
- 2000: Peter Urban
- 2001: Claudio Magris
- 2001: Norbert Randow
- 2002: Bora Ćosić
- 2002: Ludvík Kundera
- 2003: Hugo Claus
- 2003: Barbara Antkowiak
- 2004: Dževad Karahasan
- 2004: Gábor Csordás
- 2005: Slavenka Drakulić
- 2006: Yurii Andrukhovych
- 2007: Gerd Koenen
- 2007: Michail Ryklin
- 2008: Geert Mak
- 2009: Karl Schlögel
- 2010: György Dalos
- 2011: Martin Pollack
- 2012: Ian Kershaw
- 2012: Timothy D. Snyder
- 2013: Klaus-Michael Bogdal
- 2014: Pankaj Mishra
- 2015: Mircea Cărtărescu
- 2016: Heinrich August Winkler
- 2017: Mathias Énard
- 2018: Åsne Seierstad
- 2019: Masha Gessen
- 2020: László F. Földényi
- 2021: Johnny Pitts
- 2022: Karl-Markus Gauß
- 2023: Maria Stepanova
- 2024: Omri Boehm
- 2025: Alhierd Bacharevič
- 2026: Miljenko Jergović