Peter Gosse

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Peter Gosse (born 6 October 1938 in Leipzig) is a German poet, prose author and essayist.

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Life

Peter Gosse first completed a study of high frequency technology in Moscow. [1] After working as an engineer, he became a freelance writer in East Germany from 1968. Since 1985 he has been a lecturer of poetry at the German Institute for Literature in Leipzig, where he became the commissioned Director in 1993. Gosse is a member of the International PEN and since 2008, deputy President of the Sächsischen Akademie der Künste (Saxon Academy of the Arts).

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References

  1. Gerber, M. (1984). Studies in GDR Culture and Society 4: Selected Papers from the Ninth New Hampshire Symposium on the German Democratic Republic. Studies in GDR culture and society. University Press of America. ISBN   978-0-8191-4015-9 . Retrieved 17 Oct 2023.