Publishers in Austria, Switzerland, and Germany have submitted more than 200 nonfiction titles for the 2021 German Nonfiction Prize the program’s COVID-delayed first edition.
A skier on December 29 at Schladming in Austria – one of the three markets sending titles to the German Nonfiction Prize jury for the competition. Image – iStockphoto: Dietmar Rauscher
Publishers Submit 220 Titles
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Publishing Perspectives readers will remember, the German Nonfiction Prize was created in May 2019 by the Börsenverein des Deutschen Buchhandels Germany’s publishers and booksellers association but has yet to be awarded. It has been warmly awaited, however, not least because a criterion of its honor is that the winning title is not only to be a work of nonfiction written in German but one that “inspires social debate.”