Anna Seghers Preis is a literary prize of Germany. The prize goes back to the German writer Anna Seghers (1900–1983), who stated in her testament that the revenues from her work should be used to encourage promising young writers. The award is endowed with 25,000 euros, to be awarded in equal parts to an author from the German and the Latin American region. The prize has been awarded since 1986 by the Akademie der Künste der DDR, in 1994 by the Academy of Arts, Berlin, and since 1995 by the Anna Seghers Foundation. Each year, the board of the Anna Seghers Foundation names prominent representatives of cultural life as jurors to independently select the two winners.
Winners
1986: Ingeborg Arlt, Omar Saavedra Santis 1987: Kerstin Hensel, Ramón Díaz Eterovic, Gioconda Belli 1988: Kathrin Schmidt, Jens Sparschuh 1989: Annett Gröschner, Jörg Kowalski 1990: Arturo Arias, Daína Chaviano, Johannes Jansen, Reinhard Jirgl, Sonja Voß-Scharfenberg. 1991: Haus für Strassenkinder (Brazil) 1992: Ines Eck 1993: Alois Hotschnig 1994: João Ubaldo Ribeiro 1995: Marion Titze 1996: Michael Kleeberg, Miguel Vitagliano 1997: Ulrich Peltzer, Carmen Boullosa 1998: Róža Domašcyna, David Mitrani Arenal 1999: Stefanie Menzinger, Hermann Bellinghausen 2000: Melanie Gieschen, Alonso Cueto 2001: Ana Teresa Torres, Carsten Probst 2002: Rafael Gumucio, Lutz Seiler 2003: Catalin Dorian Florescu 2004: Claudia Hernández, Jan Wagner 2005: Cristina Rivera-Garza, Ulf Stolterfoht 2006: Nico Bleutge, Pedro Lemebel 2007: Fabián Casas, Katja Oskamp 2008: Lukas Bärfuss, Alejandra Costamagna 2009: Daniela Dröscher, Guadalupe Nettel 2010: Félix Bruzzone, Andreas Schäfer 2011: Sabrina Janesch, Lina Meruane (Chile) 2012: Olga Grjasnowa, Wilmer Urrelo Zaráte 2015: Nino Haratischwili 2016: Yuri Herrera (Mexico) 2017: Maren Kames 2018: Julián Fuks, Manja Präkels 2019: Fernanda Melchor, Joshua Groß 2020: Ivna Žic, Hernán Ronsino 2021: Francis Nenik, Magela Baudoin 2022: Yael Inokai, Alia Trabucco Zeran 2023: Makenzy Orcel, Bonn Park 2024: Carlos Fonseca, Johannes Herwig 2025: Enrique Winter, Marlen Hobrack 2026: Daniela Catrileo, Sonja M. Schultz"Anna-Seghers-Preis geht an Daniela Catrileo und Sonja M. Schultz". deutschlandfunkkultur.de, 2 May 2026 (in German). Retrieved 2 May 2026.
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