PEACE PRIZE OF THE GERMAN BOOK TRADE

The 'Peace Prize of the German Book Trade' (German: 'Friedenspreis des Deutschen Buchhandels') is an international peace prize given yearly at the Frankfurt Book Fair in the Paulskirche in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. It has been awarded by the Börsenverein des Deutschen Buchhandels since 1950 and is endowed with €25,000.
Traditionally, the President and leading political, cultural and diplomatic persons will attend the ceremony and ZDF TV will cover the event.
The committee for the prize currently includes the following members: Wolfgang Frühwald, Gottfried Honnefelder, Michael Krüger, Klaus-Dieter Lehmann, Jutta Limbach, Joachim Sartorius, Dieter Schormann (Director of the Börsenverein), Ole Schultheis, and Arnold Stadler.

Contents
Recipients
1950 - 1959
1960 - 1969
1970 - 1979
1980 - 1989
1990 - 1999
2000 - 2009

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 and W. A. Visser 't Hooft (together)

★ 1967 - Ernst Bloch

★ 1968 - Léopold Sédar Senghor

★ 1969 - Alexander Mitscherlich

1970 - 1979

★ 1970 - Alva Myrdal and 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 - Władysław 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 - Yaşar 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

★ 2006 - Wolf Lepenies

★ 2007 - Saul Friedländer