The Germans have two big book fairs -- Leipzig in the spring and Frankfurt in the fall -- and the two big German book prizes (as opposed to the many German author prizes ...) are announced at these, the German Book Prize, for best work of fiction, in Frankfurt, and the Prize of the Leipzig Book Fair (Preis der Leipziger Buchmesse) in Leipzig.
The PLM is in fact a trio of prizes, as they hand one out each in the categories of fiction, non, and translation. 430 titles were submitted (though unfortunately I can't find the breakdown of submissions by category), and they've now announced the fifteen finalists.
I don't think any of the fiction finalists are likely to be familiar to English-language readers; the book most likely to eventually appear in English translation is probably the non-fiction finalist by Götz Aly (subtitled 'Euthanasia 1939-1945' ....).
As to the translation shortlist, it includes a translation of Pound's Cantos (by no-not-that-Eva Hesse, this one (who was actually born over a decade before the other Eva Hesse -- and has now outlived her by over forty years), a new translation of The Master and Margarita, and of yet another Mikhail Shishkin book (the Germans are a few ahead of US/UK publishers with Shishkin).
The PLM is in fact a trio of prizes, as they hand one out each in the categories of fiction, non, and translation. 430 titles were submitted (though unfortunately I can't find the breakdown of submissions by category), and they've now announced the fifteen finalists.
I don't think any of the fiction finalists are likely to be familiar to English-language readers; the book most likely to eventually appear in English translation is probably the non-fiction finalist by Götz Aly (subtitled 'Euthanasia 1939-1945' ....).
As to the translation shortlist, it includes a translation of Pound's Cantos (by no-not-that-Eva Hesse, this one (who was actually born over a decade before the other Eva Hesse -- and has now outlived her by over forty years), a new translation of The Master and Margarita, and of yet another Mikhail Shishkin book (the Germans are a few ahead of US/UK publishers with Shishkin).