Karen Duve is a German author. After secondary school, she worked as a proof-reader and taxi driver in Hamburg. Since 1990 she has been a freelance writer.
Christoph Meckel was a German author and graphic artist. He received awards for his works which connect illustrations with the written text, sometimes texts by others.
Annette Pehnt is a German writer and literary critic. She lives in Freiburg in Baden-Württemberg.
Franz Hohler is a Swiss author and cabaret performer based in Zürich.
Zoë Jenny is a Swiss writer. Her first novel, The Pollen Room, was published in German in 1997 and has been translated into 27 languages. She lived in London. In 2008, she married Matthew Homfray, a British veterinary surgeon and pharmaceuticals consultant. Her newest novel, The Sky is Changing, was her first written in English and was published by Legend Press in June 2010. She was awarded the Aspekte-Literaturpreis.
Christoph Hein is a German author and translator. He grew up in the village Bad Düben near Leipzig. Being a clergyman's son and thus not allowed to attend the Erweiterte Oberschule in the GDR, he received secondary education at a gymnasium in the western part of Berlin. After his Abitur he jobbed inter alia as assembler, bookseller and assistant director. From 1967 to 1971 Hein studied philosophy in Leipzig and Berlin. Upon graduation he became dramatic adviser at the Volksbühne in Berlin, where he worked as a resident writer from 1974. Since 1979 Hein has worked as a freelance writer.
Ursula Krechel is a German writer.
Terézia Mora is a Hungarian writer, screenwriter and translator.
Josef Haslinger is an Austrian writer.
Rheingau Literatur Preis is a literary prize of Hesse. It is awarded annually since 1994 by the Rheingau Literatur Festival which follows the Rheingau Musik Festival. An author is awarded whose prose gained the attention of the literary critics
The Aspekte-Literaturpreis is awarded annually for the best debut novel written in German, as judged by a panel of writers, critics, and scholars. The prize is sponsored by the ZDF television network through its arts program, Aspekte. It is valued at 10,000 Euros. Past recipients include Georg Büchner Prize-winner Felicitas Hoppe and Nobel Prize-winner Herta Müller. The award was established in 1979.
Reinhard Jirgl is a German writer.
Silke Scheuermann is a German poet and novelist. She was educated in Frankfurt, Leipzig, and Paris. She is best known for her debut novel Die Stunde zwischen Hund und Wolf, which has been translated into ten languages including English. She has won numerous German and European literary prizes and fellowships, including the Georg-Christoph-Lichtenberg-Preis, the Leonce-und-Lena-Preis, the Hölty Prize, the Bertolt-Brecht-Literaturpreis, and a Villa Massimo fellowship.
Marica Bodrožić is a German writer of Croatian descent. She was born in Svib in Cista Provo, Croatia in the former Yugoslavia. She moved to Germany as a child and currently lives in Berlin.
Ulrike Draesner is a German author. She was awarded the 2016 Nicolas Born Prize.
Anna Mitgutsch is an Austrian writer and educator. Her name also appears as Waltraud Anna Mitgutsch.
Günter Herburger was a German writer. He was initially counted among the "New Realists" funded by Dieter Wellershoff, became the author of socialist, imaginative utopian worlds since the 1970s and took an outsider position in German-language contemporary literature. He was a writer of poems, children's books, radio plays and a member of the PEN Center Germany.
Dörte Hansen is a German linguist, journalist and writer.
Peter Kurzeck was a German writer.
Natascha Wodin is a German writer of Ukrainian origin. She was born in Fürth, Bavaria in 1945 to parents who had been forced labourers under the Nazi regime. She grew up in a camp for displaced persons. Following her mother's suicide, she was raised in a Catholic home for girls. She worked as a telephone operator and stenographer before becoming an interpreter and translator of Russian in the early 1970s.
