Ceremony October 14th 2024
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2024
Prize winner
The jury has decided: The winner of the German Book Prize 2024
Martina Hefter prevailed against Maren Kames: Hasenprosa (Suhrkamp Verlag, March 2024), Clemens Meyer: Die Projektoren (S. Fischer Verlag, August 2024), Ronya Othmann: Vierundsiebzig (Rowohlt Verlag, March 2024), Markus Thielemann: Von Norden rollt ein Donner (Verlag C.H.Beck, July 2024), Iris Wolff: Lichtungen (Klett-Cotta, January 2024).
She will receive 25,000 euros in prize winnings; the five finalists will each receive 2,500 euros. The winner was determined in several selection stages. The seven members of the jury reviewed a total of 197 titles published between October 2023 and 17 September 2024.
A longlist of 20 titles was then compiled from these novels. From this list, the jurors selected six titles for the shortlist. The Stiftung Buchkultur und Leseförderung des Börsenvereins des Deutschen Buchhandels – the Foundation for Book Culture and the Promotion of Reading of the German Publishers and Booksellers Association – awarded the German Book Prize 2024 to the best German-language title of the year to coincide with the start of the Frankfurt Book Fair.