Odile Kennel

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Odile Kennel
Odile Kennel auf dem Poesiefestival Berlin.jpg
Odile Kennel at a poetry festival in Berlin 2018
Born1967
Bühl (Baden), West Germany
NationalityGerman
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.

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Life and work

Odile Kennel majored in cultural studies and studied political sciences in Tübingen, Berlin and Lisbon. She studied cultural management in Bucharest and Dijon. She grew up bilingual. Besides 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.

Publications

Prose

Poetry

Translations (selected works)

Awards and stipends

References

  1. "Interview with Odile Kennel". Bavarian TV . Archived from the original on 14 May 2014.
  2. "Odile Kennel reading from a novel". Die Zeit online. Archived from the original on 21 May 2014. Retrieved 6 September 2017.
  3. "Author's portrait". dtv Verlagsgesellschaft . Archived from the original on 30 July 2016. Retrieved 6 September 2017.
  4. "Reading schedule of Odile Kennel". Blogspot.
  5. "Preisträgerinnen 5. Autorinnenforum 2004". autorinnenvereinigung.de. Archived from the original on 27 December 2016.
  6. "Präsentation von Odile Kennel als Stipendiatin im Stuttgarter Schriftstellerhaus".
  7. Ramsteiner, Claudia. "Odile Kennel ist "Autorin des Jahres"". Bo.de (in German).