Petrarca-Preis was a European literary and translation award named after the Italian Renaissance poet Francesco Petrarca or Petrarch. Founded in 1975 by German art historian and publisher Hubert Burda, it was primarily designed for contemporary European poets, but also epicists appear in the list of laureates, as well as some occasional non-Europeans. The award was first distributed over a twenty-year period (1975–95) and included the categories Literature and Translation.