Awards
Nominees for the German Non-Fiction Prize have been announced
The eight nominated titles for the German Non-Fiction Prize. photo
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Eight book titles are nominated for the German Non-Fiction Prize 2024. Your topics cover a wide spectrum.
Climate change, garbage or the Stauffenberg assassination: eight non-fiction books with a wide variety of topics are in the running for the German Non-Fiction Prize 2024.
Above all, the relevance of non-fiction books guided the jury in selecting the nominees, said jury spokesman Stefan Koldehoff. “A careful research of facts is one prerequisite. The other is an idea of your own that has the right to be understood by everyone who deals with urgent and timeless questions,” he explained. Regardless of the variety of possible topics, a good non-fiction book always needs to have a connection to the present. “Then it’s relevant.”
Nominated are: Jens Beckert (“Sold Future. Why the fight against climate change threatens to fail”), Sebastian Conrad (“The Queen. Nefertiti’s global career”), Ruth Hoffmann (“The German Alibi. Myth”Stauffenberg assassination” – how July 20, 1944 is romanticized and politically exploited”), Roman Köster (“Garbage. A dirty history of humanity”), Christina Morina (“A thousand departures. The Germans and their democracy since the 1980s” ), Frauke Rostalski (“The Vulnerable Society. The New Vulnerability as a Challenge to Freedom”), Marcus Willaschek (“Kant. The Revolution of Thought”), Moshe Zimmermann (“Never Peace? Israel at a Crossroads”).
The jury selected them from 225 titles from 115 publishers that have been published since April 2023. The winner receives 25,000 euros, the seven nominees each receive 2,500 euros. The award is to be presented on June 11th in Hamburg.