Novelist and poet Lutz Seiler will receive the Georg Büchner Prize 2023. The prize, endowed with 50,000 euros, is to be awarded on 4 November at the Staatstheater Darmstadt. Seiler was awarded the German Book Prize in 2014 for his debut novel »Kruso« The award winners include Max Frisch (1958), Günter Grass (1965) and Heinrich Böll (1967) and, most recently, Rainald Goetz.
Author Emine Sevgi Özdamar will receive the Georg Büchner Prize 2022. In awarding her the prize, the “German Academy for Language and Literature is honouring an outstanding author to whom German language and literature owes new horizons, themes and a highly poetic sound,” the jury announced