Odile Kennel | |
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 Odile Kennel at a poetry festival in Berlin 2018 | |
| Born | 1967 Bühl (Baden), Germany |
| Nationality | German |
| Notable awards | Würth-Literaturpreis 1996 Alfred-Döblin-Stipendium 2011 |
Odile Kennel (born 1967) is a German writer of French origin known for her poetry and prose, as well as her translations.
Odile Kennel majored in cultural studies and also studied political sciences in Tübingen, Berlin and Lisbon and studied cultural management in Bucharest and Dijon. She grew up bilingual. Beside her own writing, which was represented often in the German media, [1] [2] Odile Kennel translates poetry from the French, Portuguese and Spanish language into German. She also worked for many years as a cultural mediator. [3] Odile Kennel does public readings of her own works on a regular basis. [4] Odile Kennel works and lives in Berlin.
René Karl Wilhelm Johann Josef Maria Rilke, better known as Rainer Maria Rilke, was an Austrian poet and novelist. He is "widely recognized as one of the most lyrically intense German-language poets". He wrote both verse and highly lyrical prose. Several critics have described Rilke's work as "mystical". His writings include one novel, several collections of poetry and several volumes of correspondence in which he invokes images that focus on the difficulty of communion with the ineffable in an age of disbelief, solitude and anxiety. These themes position him as a transitional figure between traditional and modernist writers.
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