title: Hans Fallada Prize
text: # Hans Fallada Prize
  
  The Hans Fallada Prize is a German literary prize given by the city of Neumünster in the German state of Schleswig-Holstein. Since 1981 it typically awarded every two years to a young author from the German-speaking world. It is named in honor of Hans Fallada, a famous 20th-century German author known for addressing political and social problems of his day in fiction.
  
  The prize was first awarded in 1981, the fiftieth anniversary of the publication of Fallada's A Small Circus (Bauern, Bonzen und Bomben).
  
  The prize comes with an honorarium of 10,000 euros. In the case that two authors win the award, the prize money is halved.
  
  ## Award winners
  
  * 1981: Erich Loest
  * 1983: Ludwig Fels [de]
  * 1985: Sten Nadolny
  * 1988: Ralph Giordano
  * 1990: Jurek Becker
  * 1993: Helga Schubert
  * 1996: Günter Grass
  * 1998: Bernhard Schlink
  * 2000: Thomas Brussig
  * 2002: Birgit Vanderbeke
  * 2004: Wilhelm Genazino
  * 2006: Iris Hanika
  * 2008: Ralf Rothmann
  * 2010: Lukas Bärfuss
  * 2012: Wolfgang Herrndorf
  * 2014: Jenny Erpenbeck
  * 2016: Jonas Lüscher
  * 2018: Sandra Hoffmann [de]
  * 2020: Saša Stanišić
  * 2022: Arezu Weitholz [de]
  