| 2004 |  |
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Jonathan Franzen “The Corrections” (Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2001) |
| 2003 |
Hermann Kant “Der Aufenthalt” (Aufbau) |
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| 2002 | |
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Sherman Alexie “Indian Killer” (Atlantic Monthly 1996) |
| 2001 |  |
Theodor Plievier “Stalingrad” (Aufbau 1945) |
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| 1999 |  |
E. Annie Proulx “Schiffsmeldungen (The Shipping News)” (Fischer 1993) |
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Toni Morrison “Beloved” (Alfred A. Knopf 1987) |
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Jerome D. Salinger “The Catcher in the Rye” (Little, Brown 1951) |
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| 1998 | |
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Louise Erdrich “Love Medicine” (1984) |
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Christa Wolf “Kindheitsmuster” (Aufbau 1976) |
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| 1996 |
Erwin Strittmatter “Schulzenhofer Kramkalender” (Aufbau 1966) |
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| 1995 | |
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John Steinbeck “Früchte des Zorns (The Grapes of Wrath)” (1939) |