German Book Prize 2024: discover the shortlist – experience the award ceremony

hich of the six shortlisted titles will be the 20th German-language novel of the year? The jury’s decision will be announced on Monday. Those who wish to experience the award ceremony at the Frankfurt Römer can watch the livestream on www.deutscher-buchpreis.de on 14 October 2024 from 6 p.m. This year, for the first time, there will also be a stream with sign language translation at https://www.deutscher-buchpreis.de/livestream-dgs/.

At the same time, the radio stations Deutschlandfunk and Deutschlandfunk Kultur will broadcast the event live on the special digital radio channel “Dokumente und Debatten” and stream it on www.deutschlandradio.de/debatten. Frankfurter Buchmesse will also stream the award ceremony on its website, www.buchmesse.de.

Meet the finalists

Readers are invited to discover the selected novels in various ways. 

Thanks to the partnership between the German Book Prize and the Deutsche Zentrum für barrierefreies Lesen (dzb lessen: German Centre for Accessible Reading), all books on the shortlist, as well as many of the 20 nominated novels, are accessible to all. dzb lesen checked the accessibility of all titles nominated for the 2024 prize and provided the publishers with individual test reports with recommendations for optimisation. A list of all accessible titles nominated for the German Book Prize 2024 is available at https://www.medibus.info/.

The television network Deutsche Welle, media partner of the German Book Prize, produced short films to introduce the shortlisted authors and their titles. These can be viewed on the website of the German Book Prize: https://www.deutscher-buchpreis.de/videos. 

English translations of excerpts from the shortlisted titles and an English-language dossier on the shortlist are available on the internet portal www.new-books-in-german.com.

With the German Book Prize, which is being awarded for the 20th time this year, the Stiftung Buchkultur und Leseförderung des Börsenvereins des Deutschen Buchhandels (Foundation for Book Culture and the Promotion of Reading of the German Publishers and Booksellers Association) honours the best German-language novel of the year. Deutsche Bank Stiftung (Deutsche Bank Foundation) is the main sponsor of the award, and other partners include Frankfurter Buchmesse and the city of Frankfurt am Main.

The hashtag for the German Book Prize 2024 is #dbp24
The hashtag for the 20th anniversary of the prize is #dbp20Jahre