German Literature

The German Book Prize is presented to the best German-language novel just before the start of the Frankfurt Book Fair as an annual award from the Foundation for Book Culture and the Promotion of Reading of the German Publishers and Booksellers Association.

Since 1956, the German Youth Literature Prize has been awarded annually for outstanding works of children's and young adult literature. It is endowed with a total of 72,000 euros, is sponsored by the Federal Ministry for Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth and organized by the Working Group for Youth Literature .

The Deutscher Science Fiction Prize was first awarded in 1985 and was founded by the Science Fiction Club Deutschland, the oldest and largest general science fiction club in the German-language area. It endows two awards, Best German-language story (Beste deutschsprachige Kurzgeschichte) and Best German-language novel (Bester deutschsprachiger Roman).

Named after the science fiction author, the Kurd Laßwitz Award is a science fiction award given to works published originally in the German language (with the exception of the Foreign Work award).