Nora Wagener

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Nora Wagener
Born (1989-03-21) 21 March 1989 (age 36)
Luxembourg City
Citizenship Luxembourgish
Education
Occupation(s) Novelist, children's writer, playwright
Awards Prix Servais

Nora Wagener (born 1989) is a Luxembourgish short story writer, novelist, children's writer and playwright who writes mainly in German. She has won many awards including the 2017 Prix Servais for Larven (Larvae), a collection of short stories, which was judged to be the most significant literary work published in Luxembourg in 2016. [1] [2]

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Biography

Born in Luxembourg City on 21 March 1989, she was brought up in Mersch. After matriculating from the Lycée Robert-Schuman in 2008, she studied creative literature and journalism at the University of Hildesheim, Germany, graduating in 2012. The following year, she received a diploma in Luxembourg language and culture from Luxembourg's Institut National des Langues. [1]

In 2011, she published the novel Menschenliebe und Vogel, schrei in which the narrator reflects on life and her own identity while staying with her grandmother. In 2015, she wrote Visions, a play featuring a depressed woman, which was presented in Esch-sur-Alzette under the direction of Claire Thill. The same year she published E. Galaxien with short stories about Erwin, Edgar and Eleonore whose lives develop in different environments. [1]

In 2016, after collaborating with fellow writer Luc Caregari on the children's story d’Glühschwéngchen in Luxembourgish, she published Larven, a collection of 16 romantic short stories. [1] The book earned her the Prix Servais but also the Prix Coup de coeur, under the Lëtzebuerger Bircerhpräis. [3]

Wagener appeared at the 6th EU-China International Literary Festival in a panel discussion with Marie Gamillscheg from Austria and Lu Min from China. [4] Wagener described herself as obsessed with people, "Humans are the most fascinating thing in the world. I´m a huge fan, so to speak". [4]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 Jehin, Ludvine. "Nora Wagener" (in French). Centre national de littérature, Mersch. Archived from the original on 9 April 2023. Retrieved 23 November 2017.
  2. ↑ "Nora Wagener remporte le prix Servais 2017" (in French). Le Quotidien. 17 May 2017. Retrieved 23 November 2017.
  3. ↑ "Die Gewinner des "Lëtzebuerger Buchpräis"". Tageblatt (in German). 16 November 2017. Archived from the original on 19 Dec 2024. Retrieved 23 November 2017.
  4. 1 2 Zoe. "Interview with Nora Wagener – Literary festival". eu-china.literaryfestival.eu. Retrieved 2025-04-21.
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