Franz Nabl Prize

The Franz Nabl Prize is an biennial Austrian literature award. The prize was first awarded in 1975 by the city of Graz. The prize money is €14,500 (since 2019: €15,000). It is awarded as part of a jury meeting in cooperation with the Franz Nabl Institute for Literary Research at the Karl Franzens University of Graz.

Recipients

 * 1975 Elias Canetti
 * 1977 Manès Sperber
 * 1979 Ilse Aichinger
 * 1981 Hermann Lenz
 * 1983 Christa Wolf
 * 1985 Peter Handke (Prize passed on to Michael Donhauser and Walter Grond)
 * 1987 Wolfgang Koeppen
 * 1989 H.C. Artmann
 * 1991 Wilhelm Muster
 * 1993 Martin Walser
 * 1995 Christoph Ransmayr
 * 1997 Herta Müller
 * 1999 Barbara Frischmuth
 * 2001 Urs Widmer
 * 2003 Norbert Gstrein
 * 2005 Josef Winkler
 * 2007 Terézia Mora
 * 2009 Alfred Kolleritsch
 * 2011 Angela Krauß
 * 2013 Florjan Lipuš
 * 2015 Marlene Streeruwitz
 * 2017 Dževad Karahasan
 * 2019 Olga Flor
 * 2021 Kathrin Röggla