Friedenspreis des Deutschen Buchhandels
Friedenspreis des Deutschen Buchhandels is an international peace prize awarded annually by the Börsenverein des Deutschen Buchhandels, which runs the Frankfurt Book Fair. The award ceremony is held in the Paulskirche in Frankfurt. The prize has been awarded since 1950. The recipient is remunerated with.
According to its statutes, the association “is committed to peace, humanity, and understanding among all peoples and nations of the world. The Peace Prize promotes international tolerance by acknowledging individuals who have contributed to these ideals through their exceptional activities, especially in the fields of literature, science, and art. Prize winners are chosen without any reference to their national, racial or religious background.” Traditionally, the President of Germany and leading political, cultural and diplomatic personalities attend the ceremony, and German public television covers the event.
Recipients
Source:2020 – present
- 2025 – Karl Schlögel
- 2024 – Anne Applebaum
- 2023 – Salman Rushdie
- 2022 – Serhiy Zhadan
- 2021 – Tsitsi Dangarembga
- 2020 – Amartya Kumar Sen
2010–2019
- 2019 – Sebastião Salgado
- 2018 – Aleida and Jan Assmann
- 2017 – Margaret Atwood
- 2016 – Carolin Emcke
- 2015 – Navid Kermani
- 2014 – Jaron Lanier
- 2013 – Svetlana Alexievich
- 2012 – Liao Yiwu
- 2011 – Boualem Sansal
- 2010 – David Grossman
2000–2009
- 2009 – Claudio Magris
- 2008 – Anselm Kiefer
- 2007 – Saul Friedländer
- 2006 – Wolf Lepenies
- 2005 – Orhan Pamuk
- 2004 – Péter Esterházy
- 2003 – Susan Sontag
- 2002 – Chinua Achebe
- 2001 – Jürgen Habermas
- 2000 – Assia Djebar
1990–1999
- 1999 – Fritz Stern
- 1998 – Martin Walser
- 1997 – Yaşar Kemal
- 1996 – Mario Vargas Llosa
- 1995 – Annemarie Schimmel
- 1994 – Jorge Semprún
- 1993 – Friedrich Schorlemmer
- 1992 – Amos Oz
- 1991 – György Konrád
- 1990 – Karl Dedecius
1980–1989
- 1989 – Václav Havel
- 1988 – Siegfried Lenz
- 1987 – Hans Jonas
- 1986 – Władysław Bartoszewski
- 1985 – Teddy Kollek
- 1984 – Octavio Paz
- 1983 – Manès Sperber
- 1982 – George F. Kennan
- 1981 – Lev Kopelev
- 1980 – Ernesto Cardenal
1970–1979
- 1979 – Yehudi Menuhin
- 1978 – Astrid Lindgren
- 1977 – Leszek Kołakowski
- 1976 – Max Frisch
- 1975 – Alfred Grosser
- 1974 – Frère Roger, prior of Taizé
- 1973 – Club of Rome
- 1972 – Janusz Korczak
- 1971 – Marion Gräfin Dönhoff
- 1970 – Alva Myrdal and Gunnar Myrdal
1960–1969
- 1969 – Alexander Mitscherlich
- 1968 – Léopold Sédar Senghor
- 1967 – Ernst Bloch
- 1966 – Augustin Bea and W. A. Visser 't Hooft
- 1965 – Nelly Sachs
- 1964 – Gabriel Marcel
- 1963 – Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker
- 1962 – Paul Tillich
- 1961 – Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
- 1960 – Victor Gollancz
1950–1959
- 1959 – Theodor Heuss
- 1958 – Karl Jaspers
- 1957 – Thornton Wilder
- 1956 – Reinhold Schneider
- 1955 – Hermann Hesse
- 1954 – Carl Jacob Burckhardt
- 1953 – Martin Buber
- 1952 – Romano Guardini
- 1951 – Albert Schweitzer
- 1950 – Max Tau