Hans Magnus Enzensberger was a German author, poet, translator, and editor. He also wrote under the pseudonyms Andreas Thalmayr, Elisabeth Ambras, Linda Quilt and Giorgio Pellizzi. Enzensberger was regarded as one of the literary founding figures of the Federal Republic of Germany and wrote more than 70 books, with works translated into 40 languages. He was one of the leading authors in Group 47, and influenced the 1968 West German student movement. He was awarded the Georg Büchner Prize and the Pour le Mérite, among many others.
Julia Franck is a German writer.
Marcel Beyer is a German writer.
Arnold Stadler is a German writer, essayist and translator.
Michael Krüger is a German writer, publisher and translator.
Ror Wolf was a German writer, poet, and artist who also published under the pseudonym Raoul Tranchirer. He wrote audio plays, novels, and poems and made collages.
Mirko Bonné is a German writer and translator.
Ernest Wichner is a German writer, editor, and literary translator of Banat Swabian origin.
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.
Judith Schalansky is a German writer, book designer and publisher.
Lutz Seiler is a German poet and novelist.
Burkhard Spinnen is a German author.
Klaus Modick is a German author and literary translator.
Marion Poschmann is a German author, novelist, and poet.
Norbert Gstrein is an Austrian writer. He was born in Mils in Tyrol, the son of the hotelier and ski school director Norbert Gstrein (1931–1988) and Maria Gstrein, née Thurner. He grews up with his five siblings in Vent and attended the secondary school from 1971 to 1979 in Imst. From 1979 to 1984, Gstrein studied mathematics in Innsbruck, Stanford and Erlangen. He not completed his PhD in 1988 at the University of Innsbruck, under the supervision of Roman Liedl and Gerhard Frey.
Peter Kurzeck was a German writer.
Robert Schindel is an Austrian lyricist, director and author.
Ulrike Almut Sandig is a German writer. She was born in Großenhain in the former GDR, and has lived in Riesa, Leipzig and Berlin. She studied religious studies and indology at university, and then studied at the German Institute for Literature in Leipzig.
Nina Jäckle is a German writer and filmmaker.
Ricarda Junge is a German writer.
