Nora Bossong

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Nora Bossong
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Bossong at Leipzig Book Fair 2017
Born (1982-01-09) 9 January 1982 (age 43)
Bremen, Germany
OccupationNovelist, poet
LanguageGerman
NationalityGerman
Genrepoetry

Nora Bossong (born 9 January 1982) is a German writer. She lives in Berlin. [1]

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Career

Bossong studied literature at the German Institute for Literature, [2] as well as cultural studies, philosophy and comparative literature at the Humboldt University of Berlin, the University of Potsdam, and the Sapienza University of Rome. She was a 2001 Fellow of the first Wolfenbüttel literature laboratory.

Bossong's poetry and prose have been published in individual newspapers, anthologies and literary journals. In 2006, she published her debut novel. In 2022, she published a non-fiction book about her generation, Die Geschmeidigen: Meine Generation und der neue Ernst des Lebens (The Smooth Ones: My generation and life's new seriousness). [3]

An advocate for democracy, peace and human rights, Bossong was also a member of the presidium of the PEN Centre Germany for two years. [3]

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