The German Book Prize, awarded at the (fall) Frankfurt Book Fair is the biggest German book award, but the Preis(e) der Leipziger Buchmesse, awarded at the (spring) Leipzig Book Fair -- in three categories: fiction, non, and translation -- are the runners-up, and they've now announced this year's winners.
In fact the 'fiction' prize isn't exclusively a fiction prize, but rather one for 'Belletristik' -- a more all-encompassing 'popular literature' sort of thing -- and this year's winner is actually a poetry-volume, Jan Wagner's Regentonnenvariationen -- 'Variations on a Rain Barrel', as the Hanser foreign rights page has it .....
In fact the 'fiction' prize isn't exclusively a fiction prize, but rather one for 'Belletristik' -- a more all-encompassing 'popular literature' sort of thing -- and this year's winner is actually a poetry-volume, Jan Wagner's Regentonnenvariationen -- 'Variations on a Rain Barrel', as the Hanser foreign rights page has it .....