What is Georg Büchner Prize?
{{No footnotes|date=September 2015}} [[File:G Büchner - Franz-Ausgabe cropped.gif|thumb|upright|Georg Büchner]] The '''Georg Büchner Prize''' ([[German language|German]]: Georg-Büchner-Preis) is the most important literary [[prize]] of [[Germany]]. It was created in [[1923]] in memory of German writer [[Georg Büchner]] and was only given to artists who came from or were closely tied to Büchner's home of [[Hesse]]. In [[1951]], the prize changed to a general literary prize, given yearly by the ''Deutsche Akademie für Sprache und Dichtung''. It goes to German language authors, and the annual speech by the recipient takes place in [[Darmstadt]]. Since [[2002]], the prize has been [[endowed]] with 40,000 [[Euro]]s. == Famous recipients of the literary prize, since 1951 == [[File:Günter Grass auf dem Blauen Sofa.jpg|thumb|upright|[[Günter Grass]]]] *2004 [[Wilhelm Genazino]] (1943-2018) *1998 [[Elfriede Jelinek]] (born 1946) *1986 [[Friedrich Dürrenmatt]] (1921–1990) *1973 [[Peter Handke]] (born 1942) *1972 [[Elias Canetti]] (1905–1994) *1967 [[Heinrich Böll]] (1917–1985) *1965 [[Günter Grass]] (1927-2015) {{Clear}} == Famous recipients 1923-1950== [[File:Anna Seghers (Bundesarchiv-Bild 183-F0114-0204-003) – retouched by Carschten.jpg|thumb|upright|Anna Seghers]] *[[1947]] [[Anna Seghers]] (1900-1983) ==Other websites== * http://www.deutscheakademie.de/preise_buechner.html {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140630173028/http://www.deutscheakademie.de/preise_buechner.html |date=2014-06-30 }} * [http://www.signandsight.com/features/785.html ''The spell of a tender eel''], on 2006 prizewinner Oskar Pastior [[Category:Literary awards]] [[Category:Darmstadt]]