They've announced that the biennial, €25,000 Würth-Preis für Europäische Literatur goes to Hungarian author Nádas Péter this year; see, for example, the (German) report in Der Standard.
It has a decent if German-centric winners-list (even the foreign winners like Nádas and Claudio Magris are particularly big-in-Germany); despite offering the same amount of prize money it certainly ranks considerably behind the (annual) Austrian State Prize for European Literature, which looks to be top-of-the-heap as far as pan-European author prizes go.
What is interesting, however, is that unlike the vast majority of continental and especially German-language literary prizes, the Würth-Prize is very much corporate, while European prizes tend to be entirely government/local run, and might be named after an author -- Goethe or Büchner Prize -- but rarely stoop to Man Booker/Orange-Baileys/Whitbread-Costa sponsorship-levels.
Nádas made quite the impression recently with his massive Parallel Stories -- though that looks to have been quite the (commercial) dud: Amazon.com currently offers both the hardcover and paperback at a 'bargain price' (i.e. it's been remainedered, because they printed way, way too many of these); at Amazon.co.uk you'll still have to pay full price.
It has a decent if German-centric winners-list (even the foreign winners like Nádas and Claudio Magris are particularly big-in-Germany); despite offering the same amount of prize money it certainly ranks considerably behind the (annual) Austrian State Prize for European Literature, which looks to be top-of-the-heap as far as pan-European author prizes go.
What is interesting, however, is that unlike the vast majority of continental and especially German-language literary prizes, the Würth-Prize is very much corporate, while European prizes tend to be entirely government/local run, and might be named after an author -- Goethe or Büchner Prize -- but rarely stoop to Man Booker/
Nádas made quite the impression recently with his massive Parallel Stories -- though that looks to have been quite the (commercial) dud: Amazon.com currently offers both the hardcover and paperback at a 'bargain price' (i.e. it's been remainedered, because they printed way, way too many of these); at Amazon.co.uk you'll still have to pay full price.