... for his magnum opus, The Incredible Bus.

The council states: "With an 18.500-hp engine THE INCREDIBLE BUS goes directly through the heart of the reader with its epic tale of the importance of imagination and community (...). Flipping through drawings of the bus which after much effort finally soars, is a completely magical experience. Time suddenly seems to stop on this otherwise hectic road trip through Northern Lights, the North Pole, tundra, and The Last Land with its abandoned nuclear power plants and a horryfying octopus dictator who collects children's birthday presents. (...) It is without a doubt astonishing an nothing less than than a sublime masterpiece."

Congratulations, Jakob!

... for his momumental novel, Earthly.

The council states: “Something in the novel, its gaze on the characters, insists on describing them as humans and not just figures, despite the paralysis and the subsequent disillusioned prose. Herein lies perhaps the only hope: That EARTHLY is genuinely interested in the people it tells the story about, even though they may only be interested in themselves and the pull that the universe continually unfolds within them.”

Congratulations, Theis!