They've announced that Jürgen Habermas has been awarded the Heine-Preis 2012.
Among recent available-in-English Habermas titles is The Crisis of the European Union; see the Polity publicity page, or get your copy at Amazon.com or Amazon.co.uk (it seems to be selling quite well, by the way).
This biennial prize, worth €50,000, is -- as they put it -- one of the major German literary and personality prizes ('Literatur- und Persönlichkeitspreis'), and with previous winners that include W.G. Sebald, Elfriede Jelinek, and Amos Oz has a pretty decent track record.
Decent but not unblemished: the screwed up royally in naming Peter Handke the 2006 winner of the prize -- and then not following through; see my discussion of that mess.
Among recent available-in-English Habermas titles is The Crisis of the European Union; see the Polity publicity page, or get your copy at Amazon.com or Amazon.co.uk (it seems to be selling quite well, by the way).
This biennial prize, worth €50,000, is -- as they put it -- one of the major German literary and personality prizes ('Literatur- und Persönlichkeitspreis'), and with previous winners that include W.G. Sebald, Elfriede Jelinek, and Amos Oz has a pretty decent track record.
Decent but not unblemished: the screwed up royally in naming Peter Handke the 2006 winner of the prize -- and then not following through; see my discussion of that mess.