Weekendavisen Book Award
The Weekendavisen Book Award is an annual literary award presented by the Danish newspaper Weekendavisen. The nominees are selected om December by Weekendavisen's corps of literary critics and the final winner is selected by the readers. The ceremony takes place in January the following year. Recipients 1980: Suzanne Brøgger for Brøg 1981: Marie Hammer for Forsker i fem verdensdele 1982: Villy Sørensen for Ragnarok 1983: Jørgen Christian Hansen for Knæleren 1984: Poul Behrendt for Bissen og dullen 1985: Anna Sophie Seidelin for Genfortælling af det nye testamente 1986: Bent William Rasmussen for En dag i Amerika 1987: Peter Bastian for Ind i musikken 1988: Peter Høeg for Forestilling om det tyvende århundrede 1989: Ib Michael for Kilroy Kilroy 1990: Peter Seeberg for Rejsen til Ribe 1991: Søren Ulrik Thomsen for Hjemfalden 1992: Birgitte Possing for Natalie Zahle. Viljens styrke 1993: Benny Andersen for Denne kommen og gåen 1994: Pia Tafdrup for Territorialsang 1995: Peter Schepelern for Filmleksikon 1996: Bettina Heltberg for Hvor der handles 1997: Knud Sørensen for En tid 1998: Anne Marie Løn for Dværgenes dans 1999: Hans Edvard Nørregård-Nielsen for Mands minde 2000: Joakim Garff for SAK 2001: Kristian Ditlev Jensen for Det bliver sagt 2002: Bent Jensen