Buxtehude Bulle

The Buxtehude Bulle is a renowned prize for youth literature, established in 1971 by Winfried Ziemann, a book merchant from Buxtehude, a small, thousand year old city, located in the Hamburg Metropolitan Region, on the Este river a small tributary of the Elbe river, which took over the sponsorship of the prize in 1981. The prize is given annually to the best book for youth written the previous year in German language or translated into German. The endowed award of 5 thousand Euros, is named after a steel mill. The book author is given a small plastic statue of a bull.

Some of the awarded authors and books are:
*Michael Ende for "The Neverending Story" in 1979
*Jostein Gaarder for "Through a Glass, Darkly" in 1996
*Nancy Farmer for "The House of the Scorpion" in 2002
*Kevin Brooks for "Lucas" in 2005

References

* [http://buxtehude.wizard.de/default.cfm?mid=24350 Buxtehuder Bulle] : Information about the Buxtehude Bulle Award in the Buxtehude Stadt site.