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Novelist Thomas Lehr, author of the novel September. Fata Morgana (Hanser, 2010), which made the shortlist for the German Book Prize, has won the Berliner Literaturpreis der Stiftung Preußische Seehandlung.Endowed at 30,000 euros, the prize honors authors who through narrative prose, drama or poetry have made a major contribution to contemporary German-language literature. The Berlin Prize for Literature will be awarded by Berlin Mayor Klaus Wowereit at the Rotes Rathaus in early January 2011.
Thomas Lehr, born in 1957 in Speyer, has lived in Berlin since 1979. Before becoming a writer he studied biochemistry and science at the Freie Universität Berlin and worked as a programmer in a science library. He has received a number of literary honors, including the Wolfgang-Koeppen-Preis (2000) and the Art Prize of Rheinland-Palatinate (2006). Keep your eye out here for news of a visit by Thomas Lehr to New York late this spring.
As this will be our last post as we move into the holidays, Katherine and I send you season's greetings. See you in 2011!
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Following on the success of his 
Truly putting the graphic in graphic novel, Haarmann depicts the last months in the life of Fritz Haarmann, arguably Germany's most notorious serial killer. Abusing his position as a police informant in 1920s Hanover, Haarmann brutally murdered over 20 young men. Meter and Kreitz have crafted a gripping thriller that details the scandals leading up to Haarmann's eventual arrest and trial. 
