page_title: Aleida Assmann
section_title: Awards
hierarchical_section_title: Aleida Assmann / Awards
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Jan und Aleida Assmann, die Preisträger des Friedenspreises des deutschen Buchhandels 2018, bei einer Pressekonferenz im Rahmen der Frankfurter Buchmesse 2018
context_page_description: Aleida Assmann is a German professor of English and Literary Studies, who studied Egyptology and whose work has focused on cultural anthropology and Cultural and Communicative Memory.
context_section_description: In 2014, she received the Heineken Prize for history from the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 2017, she was awarded the Balzan Prize for Collective Memory together with her husband Jan Assmann. In 2018, she was awarded the Friedenspreis des Deutschen Buchhandels together with her husband, honouring their work "sustainable peace and understanding among the peoples of the world".
caption: Jan and Aleida Assmann at a press conference at the 2018 Frankfurt Book Fair
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