The Alfred Döblin Prize () is a German literary award. Named after Alfred Döblin, it was endowed by Günter Grass in 1979. The prize is awarded every two years jointly by the Academy of Arts, Berlin and the Literary Colloquium Berlin for substantial unpublished literary works in progress.
The current prize level on offer is 15,000 Euros. It is a requirement of the award that finalists take part in a reading competition: nominees are invited to the Literary Colloquium Berlin where they read out their texts and open them to discussion. Since 2007, selected authors' presentations have been recorded and made available on the German literary portal Literaturport.
The prize winner is nominated by the jury directly after the reading; the awards ceremony then takes place traditionally the following day at the Academy of Arts, Berlin.
Winners
1979: Gerold Späth 1980: 1981: Gert Hofmann 1983: Gerhard Roth 1985: 1987: Libuše Moníková 1989: Einar Schleef, Edgar Hilsenrath 1991: Peter Kurzeck, Förderpreis: Norbert Bleisch 1993: Reinhard Jirgl, Förderpreis: 1995: Katja Lange-Müller, Förderpreis: Ingo Schulze 1997: , 1999: Norbert Gstrein 2001: Josef Winkler, Förderpreis: Heike Geißler 2003: 2005: 2007: Michael Kumpfmüller 2009: Eugen Ruge 2011: 2013: Saša Stanišić 2015: Natascha Wodin 2017: María Cecilia Barbetta 2019: 2021: Deniz Utlu 2023: 2025: Sophia Merwald
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