Recipients of the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade

Albert Schweitzer - Albert Schweitzer was an Alsatian German-French theologian, musician, philosopher, and physician.

Alexander Mitscherlich (psychologist) - Alexander Mitscherlich was a German Psychologist.

Alva Myrdal - Alva Myrdal was a Swedish sociologist and politician.

Amos Oz - Amos Oz is an Israeli writer, novelist, and journalist.

Annemarie Schimmel - Annemarie Schimmel, SI, HI, was a well known and very influential German Orientalist and scholar, who wrote extensively on Islam and Sufism.

Anselm Kiefer - Anselm Kiefer was born on March 8, 1945, in Donaueschingen.

Assia Djebar - Assia Djebar is the pen-name of Fatima-Zohra Imalayen, an Algerian novelist, translator and filmmaker.

Astrid Lindgren - Astrid Anna Emilia Lindgren Ericsson was a Swedish author and screenwriter who is the world's 25th most translated author and has sold roughly 145 million copies worldwide.

Augustin Bea - Augustin Bea, SJ was a German scholar at the Gregorian University specializing in bibical studies and bibical archeology.

Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker - Carl Friedrich Freiherr von Weizsäcker was a German physicist and philosopher.

Carl Jacob Burckhardt - Carl Jacob Burckhardt was a Swiss diplomat and historian.

Chinua Achebe - Chinua Achebe, born Albert Chinụalụmọgụ Achebe on 16 November 1930, is a Nigerian novelist, poet, professor at Brown University and critic.

Claudio Magris - Claudio Magris is an Italian scholar, translator and writer.

Club of Rome - The Club of Rome is a global think tank that deals with a variety of international political issues.

Ernesto Cardenal - Reverend Father Ernesto Cardenal Martínez is a Nicaraguan Catholic priest and was one of the most famous liberation theologians of the Nicaraguan Sandinistas, a party he has since left.

Ernst Bloch - Ernst Simon Bloch was a German Marxist philosopher.

Fritz Stern - Fritz Richard Stern is a German-born American historian of German history, Jewish history, and historiography.

Frère Roger - Frère Roger, baptised Roger Louis Schütz-Marsauche, also known as Brother Roger, was the founder and prior of the Taizé Community, an ecumenical monastic community.

Gabriel Marcel - Gabriel Honoré Marcel was a French philosopher, a leading Christian existentialist, and author of about 30 plays.

George F. Kennan - George Frost Kennan was an American advisor, diplomat, political scientist, and historian, best known as "the father of containment" and as a key figure in the emergence of the Cold War.

Gunnar Myrdal - Karl Gunnar Myrdal was a Swedish economist, politician, and Nobel laureate.

György Konrád - György Konrád is a Hungarian novelist and essayist, known as an advocate of individual freedom.

Hans Jonas - Hans Jonas was a German-born philosopher who was, from 1955 to 1976, Alvin Johnson Professor of Philosophy at the New School for Social Research in New York City.

Hermann Hesse - Hermann Hesse was a German-born Swiss poet, novelist, and painter.

Janusz Korczak - Janusz Korczak, the pen name of Henryk Goldszmit was a Polish-Jewish children's author, pediatrician, and child pedagogue, known as Pan Doktor or Stary Doktor.

Jorge Semprún - Jorge Semprún Maura is a Spanish writer and politician.

Jürgen Habermas - Jürgen Habermas is a German sociologist and philosopher in the tradition of critical theory and pragmatism.

Karl Dedecius - Karl Dedecius is a renowned German translator of Polish and Russian literature.

Karl Jaspers - Karl Theodor Jaspers was a German psychiatrist and philosopher who had a strong influence on modern theology, psychiatry and philosophy.

Leszek Kołakowski - Leszek Kołakowski was a Polish philosopher and historian of ideas.

Lev Kopelev - Lev Zalmanovich Kopelev was a Jewish author and a dissident.

Léopold Sédar Senghor - Léopold Sédar Senghor was a Senegalese poet, politician, and cultural theorist who served as the first president of Senegal.

Manès Sperber - Manès Sperber was an Austrian-French novelist, essayist and psychologist.

Mario Vargas Llosa - Jorge Mario Pedro Vargas Llosa is a Peruvian writer, politician, journalist, and essayist.

Marion Dönhoff - Marion Hedda Ilse Gräfin von Dönhoff was a German journalist who participated in the resistance against Hitler's National Socialists with Helmuth James Graf von Moltke, Peter Yorck von Wartenbur...

Martin Buber - Martin Buber was an Austrian-born Jewish philosopher best known for his philosophy of dialogue, a form of religious existentialism centered on the distinction between the I-Thou relationship and...

Martin Walser - Martin Walser is a German writer.

Max Frisch - Max Rudolf Frisch was a Swiss architect, playwright and novelist, regarded as highly representative of German literature after World War II. In his creative works Frisch paid particular attentio...

Max Tau - Max Tau was a German-Norwegian writer, editor, and publisher noted for his contribution to promoting literary exchange between Germany and Norway, especially in the context of reconciliation aft...

Nelly Sachs - Nelly Sachs was a German poet and dramatist whose experiences resulting from the rise of the Nazis in World War II Europe transformed her into a poignant spokesperson for the grief and yearnings...

Octavio Paz - Octavio Paz Lozano was a Mexican writer, poet, and diplomat, and the winner of the 1990 Nobel Prize for Literature.

Orhan Pamuk - Ferit Orhan Pamuk generally known simply as Orhan Pamuk, is a Turkish novelist.

Paul Tillich - Paul Johannes Tillich was a German-American theologian and Christian existentialist philosopher.

Péter Esterházy - Péter Esterházy is one of the most widely known contemporary Hungarian writers.

Reinhold Schneider - Reinhold Schneider was a German poet who also wrote novels.

Romano Guardini - Romano Guardini was a Catholic priest, author, and academic.

Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan - Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, OM, FBA; was an Indian philosopher and statesman.

Saul Friedländer - Saul Friedländer is an award-winning Israeli historian and currently a professor of history at UCLA.

Siegfried Lenz - Siegfried Lenz is a German writer, who has written novels and produced several collections of short stories, essays, and plays for radio and the theatre.

Susan Sontag - Susan Sontag was an American author, literary theorist, and political activist.

Teddy Kollek - Theodor "Teddy" Kollek was mayor of Jerusalem from 1965 to 1993, and founder of the Jerusalem Foundation.

Theodor Heuss - Theodor Heuss was a German politician.

Thornton Wilder - Thornton Niven Wilder was an American playwright and novelist.

Victor Gollancz - Sir Victor Gollancz was a British publisher, socialist, and humanitarian.

Václav Havel - Václav Havel is a Czech playwright, essayist, former dissident and politician.

Willem Visser 't Hooft - Willem Adolph Visser 't Hooft was a Dutch theologian who became the first secretary general of the World Council of Churches in 1948.

Wolf Lepenies - Wolf Lepenies is a German sociologist, political scientist, and author.

Władysław Bartoszewski - Władysław Bartoszewski – Polish politician, social activist, journalist, writer, historian, Auschwitz concentration camp inmate, soldier of Armia Krajowa, Polish underground activist, participa...

Yaşar Kemal - Yaşar Kemal is one of Turkey's leading writers.

Yehudi Menuhin - Yehudi Menuhin, Baron Menuhin, OM, KBE was a violinist and conductor who spent most of his performing career in the United Kingdom.