Uwe Johnson - Honors

Honors

  • 1960 - Fontane Prize, West Berlin
  • 1962 - Prix International, awarded by the Formentor Group
  • 1971 - Georg Büchner Prize
  • 1975 - Wilhelm Raabe Prize, Braunschweig
  • 1978 - Thomas Mann Prize, Lübeck
  • 1983 - Literature prize from the city of Cologne

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