Juli Zeh
Juli Zeh is a German novelist.
Her first book was Adler und Engel (in English: Eagles and Angels), which won the 2002 Deutscher Bücherpreis for best debut novel.
Juli Zeh has lived in Leipzig since 1995. Zeh studied human rights law in Passau and Leipzig, passing the Zweites Juristisches Staatsexamen - comparable equivalent to the U.S. bar exam - in 2003. She also has a degree from the Deutsches Literaturinstitut Leipzig.
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Gail Honeyman
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Joanna Glen
I am a former teacher and headteacher, now a novelist, who lives by the sea in Brighton, on the south coast of England.
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I'm a lifelong hispanophile, with a passion for Andalusia, all of it, but in particular the beguiling city of Córdoba and the glorious coast of Cádiz.
You can expect Spain and sunshine and sea and beach and snowstorms and octopi and wildness and birds and travel and wonder as the backdrop to my characters' lives.
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Rebecca Gablé
Rebecca Gablé wurde am 25. September 1964 in einer Kleinstadt am Niederrhein geboren. Nach dem Abitur 1984 machte sie eine Lehre als Bankkauffrau. In diesem Beruf hat sie anschließend auch vier Jahre gearbeitet, meistens auf einem Stützpunkt der Royal Air Force, wo sie viel über England, seine Sprache und seine Menschen gelernt hat. Aber die Lust am Erzählen hatte Rebecca Gablé immer schon, und 1990, nachdem sie ihren ersten Roman geschrieben hatte, gab sie ihren erlernten Broterwerb auf, um aus der Lust einen Beruf zu machen. Sie begann ein Literaturstudium in Düsseldorf, dessen Schwerpunkt sich mehr und mehr zur Mediävistik - der Lehre vom Mittelalter - verlagerte.
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André Aciman
André Aciman was born in Alexandria, Egypt and is an American memoirist, essayist, novelist, and scholar of seventeenth-century literature. He has also written many essays and reviews on Marcel Proust. His work has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books, The New York Times, The Paris Review, The New Republic, Condé Nast Traveler as well as in many volumes of The Best American Essays. Aciman received his Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from Harvard University, has taught at Princeton and Bard and is Distinguished Professor of Comparative Literature at The CUNY Graduate Center. He is currently chair of the Ph. D. Program in Comparative Literature and founder and director of The Writers' Institute at the Graduate Center.
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Christoph Hein
Christoph Hein is a German author and translator.
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Matt Ruff
I was born in New York City in 1965. I decided I wanted to be a fiction writer when I was five years old and spent my childhood and adolescence learning how to tell stories. At Cornell University I wrote what would become my first published novel, Fool on the Hill, as my senior thesis in Honors English. My professor Alison Lurie helped me find an agent, and within six months of my college graduation Fool on the Hill had been sold to Atlantic Monthly Press. Through a combination of timely foreign rights sales, the generous support of family and friends, occasional grant money, and a slowly accumulating back list, I’ve managed to make novel-writing my primary occupation ever since.
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Georg Büchner
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Wolfgang Herrndorf
Wolfgang Herrndorf studied painting at the Academy of Fine Arts, Nuremberg. After graduating, he moved to Berlin, where he worked as a magazine illustrator and posted frequently on the Internet forum Wir höflichen Paparazzi (We Polite Paparazzi). In 2001, Herrndorf joined the art and writing collective Zentrale Intelligenz Agentur, eventually contributing to their blog, Riesenmaschine (Giant Machine).
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He published his first novel, In Plüschgewittern (Storm of Plush), in 2002. This was followed by a collection of short stories, Diesseits des Van-Allen-Gürtels (This Side of the Van Allen Belt, 2007), which received the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize Audience Award.
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Karen Duve
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Christa Wolf
Novelist, short-story writer, essayist, critic, journalist, and film dramatist Christa Wolf was a citizen of East Germany and a committed socialist, and managed to keep a critical distance from the communist regime. Her best-known novels included “Der geteilte Himmel” (“Divided Heaven,” 1963), addressing the divisions of Germany, and “Kassandra” (“Cassandra,” 1983), which depicted the Trojan War.
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She won awards in East Germany and West Germany for her work, including the Thomas Mann Prize in 2010. The jury praised her life’s work for “critically questioning the hopes and errors of her time, and portraying them with deep moral seriousness and narrative power.”
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Markus Werner (December 27, 1944 in Eschlikon, canton of Thurgau) was a German-speaking Swiss writer, the author of Zündels Abgang (Zündel’s Departure).
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Markus Werner was born in Eschlikon (canton of Thurgau). In 1948 the family moved to Thayngen (canton of Schaffhausen) where Werner finished school and passed the general qualification for university entrance in 1965. At the University of Zürich he studied German, Philosophy, and Psychology. In 1974 he completed a doctorate on Max Frisch, whose writing has an important influence on Werner. From 1975 to 1985, he worked as a main teacher, and from 1985 to 1990 as an assistant professor at the Kantonsschule (= preparatory high school) in Schaffhausen. He has dedicated himself exclusively to -
Rachel Aviv
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Caroline Wahl
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Dörte Hansen
Dörte Hansen (heute Dörte Hansen-Jaax; * 1964 in Husum) ist eine deutsche Linguistin, Journalistin und Schriftstellerin.
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Benedict Wells
Benedict Wells was born in Munich in 1984. At the age of six he was sent to a state boarding school due to family and other problems at home. Following his graduation from high school in 2003, he decided not to go to university but instead moved to Berlin to pursue his writing. He made a living doing odd jobs. His fourth novel, ›The End of Loneliness‹, spent more than a year and a half on the Spiegel Bestseller list, was awarded the 2016 ›European Union Prize for Literature‹, among other awards, and has been published in 38 languages. After several years in Barcelona, Benedict Wells now lives in Zurich.
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Mariana Leky
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Ewald Arenz
Der Autor Ewald Arenz kam 1965 in Nürnberg zur Welt und studierte englische und amerikanische Literatur und Geschichte. Seit Beginn der 1990er Jahre ist er als Autor tätig und hat neben einigen Glossen und Kindergeschichten auch Theaterstücke und historische Kriminalromane.
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Martin Suter
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Petra Hammesfahr
Hailed as Germany’s Patricia Highsmith, Petra Hammesfahr has written more than twenty crime and suspense novels, and also writes scripts for film and television. She has won numerous literary prizes, including the Crime Prize of Wiesbaden and the Rhineland Literary Prize. Her breakthrough novel, The Sinner, was a major critical and commercial success internationally, including in Germany, where it stayed on the bestseller list for more than fifteen months. The Sinner has been adapted for television as a limited series on USA starring Jessica Biel and Bill Pullman.
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Daniele Ganser
Daniele Ganser (born August 29, 1972 in Lugano) is a Swiss historian, author, 9/11 truther and Peak Oil lecturer. He is best known for his 2005 book NATO's Secret Armies, an adaption of his 2001 dissertation.
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Daniele Ganser was Senior Researcher at the ETH Zurich, Center for Security Studies (CSS). He was president (2006-2012) of the Swiss branch of the "Association for the Study of Peak Oil and Gas" (ASPO), and taught a course (2012-2017) titled History and Future of Energy Systems at the University of St. Gallen.
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Friedrich Schiller
People best know long didactic poems and historical plays, such as Don Carlos (1787) and William Tell (1804), of leading romanticist German poet, dramatist, and historian Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller.
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This philosopher and dramatist struck up a productive if complicated friendship with already famous and influential Johann Wolfgang von Goethe during the last eighteen years of his life and encouraged Goethe to finish works that he left merely as sketches; they greatly discussed issues concerning aesthetics and thus gave way to a period, now referred to as classicism of Weimar. They also worked together on Die Xenien ( The Xenies ), a collection of short but harsh satires that verbally attacked perceived enemies of the -
Meera Syal
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Jiang Rong
Jiang Rong (real name Lü Jiamin) was born in Beijing in 1946 and is a Chinese dissident and author, most famous for his best-selling 2004 novel Wolf Totem. He is married to fellow novelist Zhang Kangkang.
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Gunter Pauli
Gunter A. Pauli (1956–) es un emprendedor belga, autor del libro La Economía Azul. Actualmente vive desde 1994 en Japón. Esta casado con Katherina Bach, y tiene cinco hijos y su hija adoptada. Habla siete idiomas y ha vivido en cuatro continentes.
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Como presidente de la asociación estudiantil AIESEC conoció en 1978 a Aurelio Peccei, el fundador y anterior presidente del Club de Roma. En 1979 siguió a su invitación al encuentro anual del Club en Salzburgo (Austria). Aurelio Peccei se hizo su mentor y encargó a Pauli el desarrollo del programa juvenil del Club, el cual se conoció bajo el nombre de Forum Humanum.
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Robert Seethaler
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Anthony McCarten
Anthony McCarten’s debut novel, Spinners, won international acclaim, and was followed by The English Harem and the award winning Death of a Superhero, and Show of Hands, all four books being translated into fourteen languages. McCarten has also written twelve stage plays, including the worldwide success Ladies’ Night, which won France’s Molière Prize, the Meilleure Pièce Comique, in 2001, and Via Satellite, which he adapted into a feature film and directed, premiered at the 1999 Cannes Film Festival. Also a filmmaker, he has thrice adapted his own plays or novels into feature films, most recently Death Of A Superhero (2011) which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival. Anthony divides his time between London and Los Angeles.
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Irma Joubert
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Ödön von Horváth
Ödön von Horváth was a German-writing, Austro-Hungarian-born, playwright and novelist. Important topics in Horváth's works were popular culture, politics and history. He especially tried to warn of the dawn of fascism and its dangers. Among Horváth's most enduringly popular works, Jugend ohne Gott describes the youth in Nazi Germany from a disgruntled teacher's point of view, who, himself at first an opportunist, is helpless against the racist and militaristic Nazi propaganda that his pupils are subjected to and that dehumanizes them and, at last, loses his job but gains his identity.
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Nina George
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Born 1973 in Bielefeld, Germany, Nina George is a prize-winning and bestselling author (“Das Lavendelzimmer” – “The Little Paris Bookshop”) and freelance journalist since 1992, who has published 26 books (novels, mysteries and non-fiction) as well as over hundred short stories and more than 600 columns. George has worked as a cop reporter, columnist and managing editor for a wide range of publications, including Hamburger Abendblatt, Die Welt, Der Hamburger, “politik und kultur” as well as TV Movie and Federwelt. Georges writes also under three pen-names, for ex “Jean Bagnol”, a double-andronym for provence-based mystery novels.
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Pascal Mercier
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Lea-Lina Oppermann
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Ingeborg Bachmann
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Sadie Jones
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As a young woman, Sadie opted out of attending university, preferring instead to work an assortment of odd jobs (video production, temping, waiting tables) and to travel. After visiting America, the Caribbean and Mexico, Sadie settled in Paris, where she taught English and wrote her first screenplay. She eventually moved to London, where she -
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Christoph Hein
Christoph Hein is a German author and translator.
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Heinrich Mann
A German novelist who wrote works with social themes whose attacks on the authoritarian and increasingly militaristic nature of post-Weimar German society led to his exile in 1933.
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Born in Lübeck as the oldest child of Thomas Johann Heinrich Mann and Júlia da Silva Bruhns. He was the elder brother of Thomas Mann. His father came from a patrician grain merchant family and was a Senator of the Hanseatic city. After the death of his father, his mother moved the family to Munich, where Heinrich began his career as a freier Schriftsteller or free novelist. -
Stéphane Carlier
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Afin que son patronyme n'influence pas les éditeurs, il signe son premier roman « Antoine Jasper » et l'envoie par la poste, depuis Los Angeles, où il vit à l'époque. Sylvie Genevoix, alors éditrice chez Albin Michel, est la première à le contacter.
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Volker Kutscher
Volker Kutscher ist ein deutscher Schriftsteller. 1995 veröffentlichte er mit Bullenmord seinen ersten Kriminalroman im Kölner Verlag Emons. 2008 erschien unter dem Titel Der nasse Fisch der erste Band einer auf mehrere Bände angelegten Reihe von historischen Kriminalromanen um die literarische Figur des Kölner Kommissars Gereon Rath, die im Berlin der späten Weimarer Republik und des Nationalsozialismus spielen. Die bis 2019 erschienenen ersten 7 Bände spielen in den Jahren 1929 bis 1935.
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Gaby Hauptmann
Gaby Hauptmann is a German writer.
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Gaby Hauptmann has written, since the mid-1990s, a series of bestsellers on the gender battle. Today, her books have been translated and appear in over 40 countries. In Germany alone, their circulation is about 6 million. -
Antoine Wilson
Antoine Wilson is the author of the novel Mouth to Mouth from Avid Reader Press (Simon & Schuster), and the novels The Interloper and Panorama City, from Other Press and Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, respectively.
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He is a contributing editor of the literary journal A Public Space as well as the Los Angeles Review of Books. His fiction and essays have appeared in The Paris Review, StoryQuarterly, Quarterly West, and Best New American Voices, among other publications.
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Janet Lewis
Janet Loxley Lewis was an American novelist and poet.
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She was a graduate of the University of Chicago, where she was a member of a literary circle that included Glenway Wescott, Elizabeth Madox Roberts, and her future husband Yvor Winters. She was an active member of the University of Chicago Poetry Club. She taught at both Stanford University in California, and the University of California at Berkeley. -
Ingrid Noll
Ingrid Noll, the German queen of crime fiction is one of the most appreciated German female authors. Her writing consists of imagination and the experiences she gathered while living in postwar Germany.
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Ivonne Keller
Ivonne Keller lebt und schreibt in der Nähe von Frankfurt am Main. Im Genre Psychologische Spannung hat die Autorin drei Romane veröffentlicht, außerdem ist sie in über zwanzig Krimi-Anthologien vertreten. Die gelernte Bankkauffrau studierte nach ihrer Ausbildung in Spanien und arbeitete einige Jahre als Personalerin, bis sie sich hauptberuflich dem Schreiben widmete. Sie engagiert sich in den Autorenvereinigungen Mörderische Schwestern und Syndikat.
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Georg Büchner
Karl Georg Büchner was a German dramatist and writer of prose. He was the brother of physician and philosopher Ludwig Büchner. Georg Büchner's talent is generally held in great esteem in Germany. It is widely believed that, but for his early death, he might have attained the significance of such central German literary figures as Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and Friedrich Schiller.
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Jakob Arjouni
Jakob Arjouni (alias of Jakob Bothe) published his first novel Happy Birthday, Türke! (1985) at the age of 20.Later he wrote his first play Die Garagen. He became famous after publishing his criminal novel Kayankaya, which was then translated into 10 different languages.
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In 1987, he received the Baden-Württembergischen Autorenpreis für das deutschsprachige Jugendtheater for his play Nazim schiebt ab. In 1992, he received the German Crime Fiction Prize for One Man, One Murder. He died, aged 48, in Berlin, after a long fight against pancreatic cancer. -
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Monika Fagerholm
Monika Fagerholm’s much-praised first novel, Wonderful Women by the Sea, became one of the most widely translated Scandinavian literary novels of the mid-nineties and was nominated for the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. In 1998 it was followed by the cult novel Diva, which won the Swedish Literature Society Award. Her third novel, The American Girl, became a number-one best seller and won the premier literary award in Sweden, the August Prize, as well as the Aniara Prize and the Gothenburg Post Award.
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Stefanie Stahl
Stefanie Stahl ist es gelungen, sich im Dschungel der psychologischen Ratgeber Literatur einen Namen zu machen. Sie begeistert durch ihren unterhaltsamen und verständlichen Stil und die vielen Aha-Erlebnisse, die sie ihren Lesern und Leserinnen vermittelt. Ihr Buch "Jein! Bindungsängste erkennen und bewältigen" wird nicht nur von Laien mit Begeisterung aufgenommen, sondern gilt auch in Fachkreisen als Standardwerk.
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Stefanie Stahl, Jahrgang 63, ist in Hamburg geboren und aufgewachsen und hat an der Universität Trier Psychologie studiert. Sie arbeitet als Psychotherapeutin, psychologische Sachverständige und Buchautorin in freier Praxis in Trier. Zudem hält sie im deutschsprachigen Raum Seminare zum Thema Bindungsangst. Weitere Informationen f -
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Brigitte Reimann
Brigitte Reimann (1933 - 1973) was a German writer who is best known for her posthumously published novel, Franziska Linkerhand.
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Brigitte Reimann wrote her first amateur play at the age of fifteen. In 1950 she was awarded the first prize in an amateur drama comeptition by the Berlin theater Volksbühne. After graduating, Reimann worked as teacher, bookseller and reporter. After a miscarriage in 1954, she attempted suicide. In 1960, she started to work at the brown coal mine Schwarze Pumpe, where she and her second husband Siegfried Pitschmann headed a circle of writing workers. There, she writes the narrative Ankunft im Alltag, which is regarded as a masterpiece of socialist realism.
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Sibylle Berg
Sibylle Berg was born at and spent her childhood in Weimar where she also worked as a puppeteer until moving to the West in 1984. She studied briefly at the Dimitri theatre school in Ticino and then had various jobs. She began to write, published her first articles and reportage, and was a columnist for the "Zeit-Magazin". Her first book appeared in 1997, and other novels and stories followed. "Helges Leben" was her first play. Sibylle Berg lives in Zurich.
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Sindiwe Magona
Sindiwe Magona is a South African writer.
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Magona is a native of the former Transkei region. She grew up in Bouvlei near Cape Town, where she worked as a domestic and completed her secondary education by correspondence. Magona later graduated from the University of South Africa and earned her Masters of Science in Organisational Social Work from Columbia University.
She starred as Singisa in the isiXhosa classic drama Ityala Lamawele.
She worked in various capacities for the United Nations for over 20 years, retiring in 2003.
In the 2013 computer-animated adventure comedy film Khumba she was the voice actor for the character Gemsbok Healer.
She is Writer-in-Residence at the University of the Western Cape and has been a visiting Professor working -
Elke Heidenreich
Elke Heidenreich is a German author, TV presenter and journalist.
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Bastian Sick
Bastian Sick ist ein deutscher Journalist, Lektor und Übersetzer, der insbesondere als Autor der sprachpflegerischen Kolumne Zwiebelfisch und der daraus entstandenen Buchreihe "Der Dativ ist dem Genitiv sein Tod" bekannt wurde.
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Daniil Kharms
Daniil Ivanovich Yuvachev (Даниил Хармс) was born in St. Petersburg, into the family of Ivan Yuvachev, a well known member of the revolutionary group, The People's Will. By this time the elder Yuvachev had already been imprisoned for his involvement in subversive acts against the tsar Alexander III and had become a religious philosopher, acquaintance of Anton Chekhov during the latter's trip to Sakhalin.
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Daniil invented the pseudonym Kharms while attending high school at the prestigious German "Peterschule". While at the Peterschule, he learned the rudiments of both English and German, and it may have been the English "harm" and "charm" that he incorporated into "Kharms". Throughout his career Kharms used variations on his name and the pseud -
John Ironmonger
I'm the author of 'Not Forgetting the Whale', (also called 'The Whale at the End of the World',) 'The many Lives of Heloise Starchild,' The Coincidence Authority,' ('Coincidence' in the USA), and 'The Notable Brain of Maximilian Ponder.'
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I'm a Cornishman who was born in Kenya, schooled in Kent, studied in Nottingham and Liverpool, and worked in Nigeria, Slough, Manchester, Edinburgh, Warrington, Warwick and Glasgow. Now I live in Parkgate on the Wirral peninsula overlooking the RSPB marshes.
My lovely wife Sue and I are possibly the only non Indonesians ever to have seen a Javan rhino and her calf. True. You can read about it on my blog at http://notablebrain.blogspot.co.uk/20...
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Dirk Reinhardt
Dirk Reinhardt, Jahrgang 1963, studierte Geschichte und Germanistik. Nach seiner Promotion war er als wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter und als freier Journalist tätig. 2009 erschien sein erstes Kinderbuch, dem bald weitere folgten. 2016 wurde er mit dem Friedrich-Gerstäcker-Preis für Jugendliteratur ausgezeichnet.
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Dirk Reinhardt, born in 1963, studied history and German studies. After his doctorate, he worked as a research assistant and as a freelance journalist. His first children's book was published in 2009 and was soon followed by others. In 2016 he was awarded the Friedrich Gerstäcker Prize for Youth Literature. -
Kai Kupferschmidt
Er ist ein deutscher Wissenschaftsjournalist.
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Arno Geiger
Geiger grew up in the village of Wolfurt near Bregenz. He studied German studies, ancient history and comparative literature at the universities of Innsbruck and Vienna. He has worked as a freelance writer since 1993. From 1986 to 2002, he also worked as a technician at the annual Bregenzer Festspiele summer opera festival.
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In 1996 and in 2004, he took part in the Ingeborg-Bachmann-Preis competition at Klagenfurt.
In October 2005, he was the recipient of the first Deutscher Buchpreis[1] literature prize (awarded by the booksellers' association of Germany) for his novel Es geht uns gut.
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Constantin Schreiber
Constantin Schreiber is a German journalist, news anchor, nonfiction author, and writer. Since January 2017, he has been working for ARD-aktuell and moderates editions of the Tagesschau, the Nachtmagazin and news in the Tagesthemen.
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Golineh Atais
Deutsche Fernseh-Korrespondentin. Sie machte sich insbesondere als Russlandexpertin einen Namen.
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Mascha Kaléko
Mascha Kaléko war eine deutschsprachige, der Neuen Sachlichkeit zugerechnete Dichterin.
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Charakteristisch für Mascha Kalékos Arbeit ist die Großstadtlyrik mit ironisch-zärtlichem, melancholischem Ton. Als einzige bekannte weibliche Dichterin der Neuen Sachlichkeit wurde sie häufig mit ihren männlichen Kollegen verglichen, so bezeichnete man sie als „weiblichen Ringelnatz“ oder nannte sie einen „weiblichen Kästner“. Die auch Montagsgedichte genannten Strophen rühren durch ihre schnörkellose und direkte Sprache an. Ihre Gedichte wurden – als Chansons vertont – von Diseusen wie Hanne Wieder gesungen oder werden von Sängern wie Rainer Bielfeldt noch heute vorgetragen. -
Zoë Beck
Zoë Beck is the pseudonym commonly used by Henrike Heiland, a German author, translator and publisher.
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Dörte Hansen
Dörte Hansen (heute Dörte Hansen-Jaax; * 1964 in Husum) ist eine deutsche Linguistin, Journalistin und Schriftstellerin.
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Dörte Hansen, born in Husum in 1964, worked as a radio and print editor and author for NDR after completing her linguistics degree. She lives in North Frisia with her family to this day. -
Wolfgang Koeppen
Wolfgang Arthur Reinhold Koeppen (June 23, 1906 – March 15, 1996) was a German novelist and one of the best known German authors of the post-war period.
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Koeppen was born out of wedlock in Greifswald, Pomerania to Marie Köppen, a seamstress who also worked as a prompter at the Greifswald theater. He did not have contact with his father, ophthalmologist Reinhold Halben, who never formally accepted the fatherhood. In 1920, Koeppen left Greifswald permanently, and after 20 years of moving about, settled in Munich, living there the remainder of his life.
He started out as a journalist. In 1934 his first novel appeared while he was in the Netherlands. In 1947, Koeppen received a book contract to rewrite the memoirs of the philatelist and Holocaus -
Peter Bieri
Peter Bieri is a Swiss writer and philosopher, who is better known by his pseudonym, Pascal Mercier.
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Uwe Laub
Uwe Laub worked as a broker at the German stock exchange and as a pharmaceutical representative for well known pharmaceutical companies. He is married and father of a daughter. He lives in Munich, Germany. He is a well-known bestselling author in Germany when it comes to suspense, thriller books, crime and climate fiction.
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Gianna Molinari
Gianna Molinari wurde 1988 in Basel geboren und lebt in Zürich. Sie studierte von 2009 bis 2012 Literarisches Schreiben am Schweizerischen Literaturinstitut Biel und danach Neuere Deutsche Literatur an der Universität Lausanne. Sie war Stipendiatin der Autorenwerkstatt Prosa 2012 am Literarischen Colloquium Berlin und erhielt im selben Jahr den Preis sowie den Publikumspreis des 17. MDR-Literaturwettbewerbs. Bei den „Tagen der deutschen Literatur“ 2017 in Klagenfurt wurde sie für einen Auszug aus ihrem Debüt „Hier ist noch alles möglich“ mit dem 3sat-Preis ausgezeichnet.
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Vea Kaiser
Vea Kaiser wurde 1988 in St. Pölten geboren. Sie arbeitete als Übersetzerin, Fremdenführerin und Fotomodell. Seit 2007 studiert sie Klassische und Deutsche Philologie an der Universität Wien. Für ein Jahr studierte sie Kreatives Schreiben und Kulturjournalismus in Hildesheim. Sie lebt in Wien und Zürich.
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Für ihre belletristischen Arbeiten erhielt sie u.a. das Start-Stipendium des österreichischen Kultusministeriums, das Hans-Weigel-Literaturstipendium sowie den Theodor-Körner-Preis 2011 (Preis der Stadt Wien für Blasmusikpop oder Wie die Wissenschaft in die Berge kam). Kaiser war Finalistin beim 17. Open Mike und nahm 2010 an der Autorenwerkstatt Prosa des Literarischen Colloquiums Berlin teil. Ihr Debütroman Blasmusikpop oder Wie die Wissen -
Stefan Aust
Stefan Aust (born 1 July 1946 in Stade, Lower Saxony) is a German journalist and was the editor-in-chief of the weekly news magazine Der Spiegel from 1994 to February 2008.
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Arno Van Vlierberghe
Arno Van Vlierberghe (1990) is dichter. Hij woont, werkt en leeft in Gent. In 2017 verscheen zijn debuutbundel Vloekschrift, die werd genomineerd voor de C. Buddingh'-prijs. In 2022 verscheen de tweede bundel, Ex Daemon, die werd genomineerd voor de J.C. Bloemprijs. Momenteel werkt hij aan pornoverhalen.
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Jens Balzer
Jens Balzer (Alemania, 1969) es escritor y periodista. Doctorado en la Universidad de Hamburgo, ahora enseña crítica pop en la Universidad de las Artes de Berlín. Ha trabajado como columnista y redactor en distintos medios de comunicación, entre los que se encuentran Die Zeit, Berliner Zeitung, Rolling Stone y radioeins. Además, codirige el Popsalon del Deutsches Theatre y es asesor artístico del Donaufestival Krems. Es autor de una extensa bibliografía sobre crítica pop.
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Marlo Morgan
Marlo Morgan is a controversial American novelist best known for her book Mutant Message Down Under concerning Aboriginal Australians, a book which was originally promoted as nonfiction but has since been republished as fiction.
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Julia von Lucadou
Julia von Lucadou wurde 1982 in Heidelberg geboren und ist promovierte Filmwissenschaftlerin. Sie arbeitete als Regieassistentin, Redakteurin beim Fernsehen und als Simulationspatientin; sie lebt in Biel, New York und Köln. "Die Hochhauspringerin" ist ihr erster Roman.
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Harald Welzer
Harald Welzer ist Direktor des Center for Interdisciplinary Memory Research am Kulturwissenschaftlichen Institut in Essen und Forschungsprofessor für Sozialpsychologie an der Universität Witten/Herdecke.
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"Der Spiegel" stellte ihn im August 2007 in seiner Serie herausragender Wissenschaftler als "produktiven Quergeist" einem breiten Publikum vor.
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Robert Menasse
Robert Menasse is an Austrian writer and essayist. His work has received various awards, including the European Book Prize and the prestigious German Book Prize.
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Irena Brežná
Irena Brežná, born in 1950 in Bratislava. In 1968, she emigrated to Switzerland with her parents. Since graduating from the Faculty of Arts at Basel University (lic. phil. in Slavonic studies, philosophy and psychology) in 1975, she has worked as a teacher of Russian, a translator and interpreter of Slavonic languages and for 10 years as a psychologist at psychology research institutes in Munich and Basel. More recently, she has begun to work increasingly as an independent journalist and author.
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She continues to be actively involved in a variety of areas on a voluntary basis. For 12 years during the 1970s and 1980s she campaigned for the release of Soviet political prisoners in her role as a coordinator for the Swiss chapter of Amnesty inte -
Jan Costin Wagner
Jan Costin Wagner is a German crime fiction writer. His novels are set in Finland and feature detective Kimmo Joentaa.
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Wagner studied German Literature and History at university in Frankfurt, and later worked as a journalist. His first novel, "Nachtfahrt" (Night Trip) was published to much acclaim in 2002 and won the Marlowe Prize for Best Crime Novel. His wife is a native of Finland, and they spend time both there and in Germany.His 2007 novel The Silence (German: Das Schweigen) has been adapted to a 2010 German film of the same name in English; the original name of the film in German is Das letzte Schweigen, i.e. The last Silence. -
Fionnuala Kearney
Fionnuala discovered, age six, that she had in fact been christened Ann (that’s Ann with no ‘e’) and that her parents had decided, for some reason, to saddle her with a life of dealing with unnecessary vowels. At twenty she moved to London and marrying Mr. Kearney proved to be the best thing she ever did, apart from the fact that the vowel thing escalated further. Two daughters, both with deliberately simple mono syllabic names followed.
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She worked, for many years, in London as a home search agent (like Phil and Kirstie without the cameras) until she decided, one fateful day, that it was time for a change – time to pursue the dream of being a writer.
Seven years on; time spent in her garret learning her craft, she is often found talking to -
Charlie Stella
Carmelo Stella is an author long familiar with the street life of New York City, which figures substantially in his writing. His work includes plays, performed off-off-Broadway, his debut novel called Eddie's World and Jimmy Bench-press, also published by Hale. He lives in New Jersey.
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Sven Böttcher
Sven Böttcher is a German author, translator, and screenwriter.
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Karina Reiss
Karina Reiss was born in Germany and studied biology at the University of Kiel where she received her PhD in 2001. She became assistant professor in 2006 and associate professor in 2008 at the University of Kiel. She has published over sixty articles in the fields of cell biology, biochemistry, inflammation, and infection, which have gained international recognition and received prestigious honors and awards.
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Milena Moser
Milena Moser wurde 1963 in Zürich geboren. Nach einem kurzen Gastspiel am Gymnasium schloss sie mit knapper Not die Diplommittelschule ab. Nach einer Buchhändlerlehre lebte sie zwei Jahre lang in Paris und gründete dann mit ihrem ersten Mann, dem Buchhändler René Moser “Sans Blague, Magazin für Schund und Sünde”, wo sie bei einer Auflage von 500 Stück ihre ersten Geschichten veröffentlichte.
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In Paris schrieb sie auch ihre ersten drei Romane, die allerdings nie veröffentlicht wurden. Sechs Jahre lang sammelte sie Absgen von Verlegern. Ihr erstes Buch, “Gebrochene Herzen”, erschien 1990 im Krösus Verlag, den ihre Freunde eigens gegründet hatten. Seither lebt sie vom Schreiben. Sie hat sechzehn Bücher sowie zahlreiche Essays, Artikel, Hörspiele -
Albert Vigoleis Thelen
Albert Vigoleis Thelen (28 September 1903 in Süchteln, Lower Rhine region, Germany - 9 April 1989 in Dülken, Germany) was a German author and translator (from Portuguese).
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Thelen was the son of booksellers Louis Thelen and Johanna Scheifes. After the primary school (1909–1913) he attended the Kaiser-Wilhelm-Schule (1913–1918).
Thelen's main work, The Island of Second Sight, which has been praised by many as one of the great achievements in German literature of the 20th century, appeared in 1953. It was soon translated into Spanish and French, later also into Dutch. Not until 2010 when it was published by Galileo Publishing in Cambridge, through the efforts of Isabelle Weiss, was it made available to English readers. The award winning translat -
Pitigrilli
Pitigrilli was the pseudonym for Dino Segre (9 May 1893 - 8 May 1975), an Italian writer who made his living as a journalist and novelist. His most noted novel was Cocaïne (1921), published under his pseudonym and placed on the "forbidden books" list by the Catholic Church because of his treatment of drug use and sex. It has been translated into several languages and re-issued in several editions. Pitigrilli published novels up until 1974, the year before his death.
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He founded the literary magazine Grandi Firme, which was published in Turin from 1924 to 1938, when it was banned under the newly enacted anti-Semitic Race Laws of the Fascist government. Although baptized as a Catholic, Segre was classified as Jewish at that time. He had worked -
Harald Lesch
Harald Lesch is a German physicist, astronomer, natural philosopher, author, television presenter, professor of physics at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (LMU) and professor of natural philosophy at the Munich University of Philosophy. In the German speaking world, Lesch serves a similar role to that of Neil deGrasse Tyson, as a bridge between the scientific community and the public.
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John Wray
John Wray is the author of five critically acclaimed novels, Godsend, The Lost Time Accidents, Lowboy, The Right Hand of Sleep and Canaan's Tongue. He was named one of Granta's Best Young American Novelists in 2007. The recipient of a Whiting Award and a Guggenheim Fellowship, he lives in Brooklyn and Mexico City.
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David Blum
David Blum, geboren 1983 in Potsdam, studierte Germanistik, Komparatistik und Medienwissenschaft in Potsdam und Leipzig. Masterstudium am Deutschen Literaturinstitut Leipzig. Er veröffentlichte Prosa in Zeitschriften und Anthologien und erhielt diverse Preise und Stipendien. Sein Debütroman KOLLEKTORGANG (Beltz & Gelberg) wurde mit dem Peter-Härtling-Preis 2023 ausgezeichnet. Schreibt auch Reiseführer (Reise Know-How, E. A. Seemann) und Gebrauchstexte (Zweitausendeins). Lebt mit seiner Familie in Leipzig.
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David Blum, born in Potsdam in 1983, studied German, comparative literature and media studies in Potsdam and Leipzig. Master's degree at the German Literature Institute Leipzig. He has published prose in journals and antholo -
Dora Heldt
Dora Heldt is the pen name of Bärbel Schmidt, a popular German author. Her 2009 novel, Tidal Shift, reached second place on the bestseller list in Germany.
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Sahra Wagenknecht
Sahra Wagenknecht is a prominent German politician, economist, author, and public intellectual, known for her distinctive blend of leftist economic policies and socially conservative views. Born in Jena, East Germany, she pursued studies in philosophy and literature at Humboldt University in Berlin and later earned a doctorate in economics. Her academic background has significantly influenced her political ideology and public discourse.
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Wagenknecht began her political career with the Socialist Unity Party (SED) and continued her involvement through its successor, the Party of Democratic Socialism (PDS). She was a member of the PDS's leadership and its Communist Platform, advocating for traditional Marxist principles. In 2007, following the -
Mechthild of Magdeburg
Mechthild (or Mechtild) of Magdeburg (c. 1207 – c. 1282/1294), a Beguine, was a medieval mystic, whose book Das fließende Licht der Gottheit (The Flowing Light of Divinity) described her visions of God.
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Definite biographical information about Mechthild is scarce; what is known of her life comes largely from scattered hints in her work. She was probably born to a noble Saxon family, and claimed to have had her first vision of the Holy Spirit at the age of twelve. In 1230 she left her home to become a Beguine at Magdeburg. There, like Hadewijch of Antwerp, she seems to have exercised a position of authority in a beguine community. In Magdeburg she became acquainted with the Dominicans and became a Dominican tertiary. It seems clear that she re