The Goethe Book Awards recognize emerging new talent in post-1750s Historical Fiction. The Goethe Book Awards is a division of the Chanticleer International Book Awards (The CIBAs).

The Goethe Book Awards competition is named for Johann Wolfgang von Goethe who was born at the dawn of the new era of enlightenment on August 28, 1749.

Chanticleer International Book Awards is looking for the best books featuring Late Period Historical Fiction. Regency, Victorian,18th Century, 19th Century, 20th Century, World and other wars, history of non-western cultures, set after the 1750s. These books have advanced to the Premier Level of Achievement in the 2020 CIBAs.

We have received a large number of Historical Fiction in the last years to the point that we need a new division! See Hemingway Awards for our new division!

The 2020 GOETHE Book Awards First Place Category Winners and the GOETHE Grand Prize Winner were announced by Gregory Erich Phillips on Saturday, June 5, 2021 at the Hotel Bellwether and broadcast via ZOOM webinar and Facebook Live.

NOTE: We received so many wonderful historical novels that we decided that another division was needed—the Hemingway Book Awards for 20-century Wartime Novels—to recognized these important works. If you entered the Goethe Book Awards with a wartime novel (WWI, WWII, Vietnam Conflict, etc), please check the Hemingway Book Awards post.

It is our privilege and profound honor to announce the 1st in Category winners of the 2020 GOETHE Awards, a division of the 2020 CIBAs.

This is the OFFICIAL 2020 LIST of the GOETHE BOOK AWARDS First Place Category Winners and the GOETHE Grand Prize Winner.

Congratulations to all!

Congratulations to the 2020 1st Place Winners in the GOETHE Book Awards! 

• Linda Ulleseit – The Aloha Spirit     
• Wendy Long Stanley – The Power to Deny       
• Ben Wyckoff Shore – Terribilita      
• Donna Scott – The London Monster   
• Michelle Cameron – Beyond the Ghetto Gates    
• Pamela Jonas – For Love of Family: A Slovak Immigrant Novel     
• Dorothea Hubble Bonneau – Once in a Blood Moon  
• Jule Selbo – Breaking Barriers: A Novel Based on the Life of Laura Bassi

The Grand Prize Winner for the CIBA 2020 Goethe Awards is:

Linda Ulleseit for

The Aloha Spirit

The 2021 GOETHE Book Awards winners will be announced at CAC22 on April 10, 2022. Save the date for CAC22, scheduled April 7-10, 2022, our 10 year Conference Anniversary!

Submissions for the 2021 GOETHE Book Awards are open. Enter here!

Don’t delay! Enter today! 

A Note to ALL the WINNERS: The coveted CIBA Blue Ribbons will be mailed out starting in July. We will contact you with an email to verify your mailing address and other items. We thank you for your patience and understanding.