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Anne Weber (born 13 November 1964) is a German-French author, translator and self-translator. [1]
Anne Weber | |
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| Born | 13 November 1964 Offenbach am Main, Germany |
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| Nationality | German |
| Period | 21st century |
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Anne Weber (born 13 November 1964) is a German-French author, translator and self-translator. [1]
Since 1983, Anne Weber has lived in Paris. She studied in Paris and worked for several editors. Anne Weber started writing and publishing in French, but immediately translated her first book Ida invente la poudre into German Ida erfindet das Schießpulver. [2] Since then she writes each of her books in French and German. Her self-translations are often published at the same time in France and Germany. In 2005 she received the 3Sat award at the Festival of German-Language Literature. [3] For her translation of Pierre Michon she received a European translation award, the Europäischer Übersetzerpreis Offenburg. [4] She was awarded the 2020 German Book Prize. [5] In 2021, Weber gave the “Schiller Speech” in the German Literature Archive in Marbach. [6] Her partner Antoine Jaccottet, a son of Philippe Jaccottet , works at the publishing house Le Bruit de Temps and was previously an editor at Gallimard. [7]
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