Leipzig – The Croatian-Bosnian writer Miljenko Jergović receives a prize for his volume of short stories The crazy heart. Sarajevo Marlboro Remastered (Suhrkamp) the Leipzig Book Prize for European Understanding 2026. The award, worth 20,000 euros, will be presented at the opening of the Leipzig Book Fair on March 18th in the Gewandhaus in Leipzig, and the laudatory speech will be given by the Serbian-Austrian writer Barbi Marković.
