The six finalists for the German Book Prize 2011 have been chosen. They are: Against the World by Jan Brandt; Das Wunderhorn by Michael Buselmeier; The Girl by Angelika Klüssendorf; Blumenberg by Sibylle Lewitscharoff; In Times of Fading Light by Eugen Ruge; The Hurtress by Marlene Steeruwitz. The winner will receive 25,000 euros; the five finalists will each receive 2,500 euros. The Börsenverein des Deutschen Buchhandels Stiftung will award the German Book Prize 2011 to the best German-language novel of the year October 10 at the start of the Frankfurt Book Fair in the Kaisersaal of the Frankfurt Römer.