Peace Prize of the German Book Trade

The Peace Prize of the German Book Trade (German: Friedenspreis des Deutschen Buchhandels) is a peace prize given yearly at the Frankfurt Book Fair in the Paulskirche in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. It is awarded by the Börsenverein des Deutschen Buchhandels and endowed with 15,000 Euros.

Recipients

1950 - 1959

• 1950 - Max Tau
• 1951 - Albert Schweitzer
• 1952 - Romano Guardini
• 1953 - Martin Buber
• 1954 - Carl Jacob Burckhardt
• 1955 - Hermann Hesse
• 1956 - Reinhold Schneider
• 1957 - Thornton Wilder
• 1958 - Karl Jaspers
• 1959 - Theodor Heuss

1960 - 1969

• 1960 - Victor Gollancz
• 1961 - Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
• 1962 - Paul Tillich
• 1963 - Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker
• 1964 - Gabriel Marcel
• 1965 - Nelly Sachs
• 1966 - Augustin Bea & W. A. Visser't Hooft (together)
• 1967 - Ernst Bloch
• 1968 - Léopold Sédar Senghor
• 1969 - Alexander Mitscherlich

1970 - 1979

• 1970 - Alva Myrdal und Gunnar Myrdal (together)
• 1971 - Marion Gräfin Dönhoff
• 1972 - Janusz Korczak (posthumous)
• 1973 - Club of Rome
• 1974 - Frère Roger, prior of Taizé
• 1975 - Alfred Grosser
• 1976 - Max Frisch
• 1977 - Leszek Kolakowski
• 1978 - Astrid Lindgren
• 1979 - Yehudi Menuhin

1980 - 1989

• 1980 - Ernesto Cardenal
• 1981 - Lev Kopelev
• 1982 - George F. Kennan
• 1983 - Manès Sperber
• 1984 - Octavio Paz
• 1985 - Teddy Kollek
• 1986 - W?adys?aw Bartoszewski
• 1987 - Hans Jonas
• 1988 - Siegfried Lenz
• 1989 - Václav Havel

1990 - 1999

• 1990 - Karl Dedecius
• 1991 - György Konrád
• 1992 - Amos Oz
• 1993 - Friedrich Schorlemmer
• 1994 - Jorge Semprún
• 1995 - Annemarie Schimmel
• 1996 - Mario Vargas Llosa
• 1997 - Yasar Kemal
• 1998 - Martin Walser
• 1999 - Fritz Stern

2000 - 2009

• 2000 - Assia Djebar
• 2001 - Jürgen Habermas
• 2002 - Chinua Achebe
• 2003 - Susan Sontag
• 2004 - Péter Esterházy
• 2005 - Orhan Pamuk