Thomas Mann Prize
The Thomas Mann Prize is a German literary prize awarded jointly by Lübeck and the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts since 2010.
It is given in alternate years in Lübeck and in Munich. The award is the product of a merger of two prizes in 2010, the Thomas Mann Preis der Hansestadt Lübeck and the Großer Literaturpreis of the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts. The Thomas Mann Prize Lübeck was first awarded in 1975; the Great Literature Prize in 1950. The prize money is.
Recipients
- 2010: Christa Wolf
- 2011: Jan Assmann
- 2012: Thomas Hürlimann
- 2013: Juli Zeh
- 2014: Rüdiger Safranski
- 2015: Lars Gustafsson
- 2016: Jenny Erpenbeck
- 2017: Brigitte Kronauer
- 2018: Mircea Cărtărescu
- 2019: Claudio Magris
- 2020: Nora Bossong
- 2021: Norbert Gstrein
- 2022: Jonathan Franzen
- 2023: Ralf Rothmann
- 2024: Navid Kermani
- 2025: Katja Lange-Müller