Wednesday, November 19, 2014

20th and 21st Century Writers and Poets

Wagner
Jan Wagner

He’s a literary critic and a translator.  He studied English and American studies at Hamburg University and at Trinity College Dublin. He has received the Anna Seghers Prize, the Ernst Meister Prize, and the Arno Reinfrank Literature Award.

Durs Grünbein

He received the Georg Büchner Prize in 1995, the 200 Salzburg Easter Festival Literature Prize, and the federal state of Sachsen-Anhalt Literature Prize.

Hugo Dittberner

He went to a private school, after private school he went to Göttingen University and studied German literature and linguistics, history and philosophy. He graduated in 1972 and went to teach at Karlsruhe University before becoming a freelance writer

Bossong
Nora Bossong

She went to school at German Institute for Literature and studied literature. At Humboldt University of Berlin, the University of Potsdam, and the Sapienza University of Rome she studied cultural studies, comparative literature, and philosophy. In 2006 she published her debut novel.



Kafka
Franz Kafka 

Franz Kafka was born July 3, 1883 in Prague, Bohemia. He died June 3 1924. He was fluent in both German and Czech. He is referred to as one of the most influential authors of the 20th century. Famous works are “Die Verwandlung”, “Der Prozess” as well as “Das Schloss”.  Franz Kafka was a lawyer before he became an author. Although he is now recognized as one of the most important writers of his time, most of his works were not published until after his death.


Musil
Robert Musil

Robert Musicl was born November 6, 1880 and died April 15th of 1942. His novel “The Man Without Qualities” is thought of to be an important modernist novel; however, it is not a book that has been widely ready for several reasons. When he was a teenager his parents sent him away to a military boarding school and this is exhibited through his writing. He graduated as a Cadet, and then went to mechanical engineering. He also fought in World War I.



Wolfgang Herrndorf

Herrndorf
Wolfgang went to the Academy of Fine Arts in Nuremberg, where he attained a degree in illustrations. His first novel was published in 2002, however he didn’t become really famous until 2010 with his book “Tschick”. Later in 2011 he would accept the “Prize of the Leipzig Book Fair”, as well as the “German Book Prize” in 2012. Wolfgang killed himself August 26th in 2013, after living with depression from the discovery of a malignant tumor in his brain back in 2010.



Schatzing
Frank Schatzing was born May 28th, 1957. His best selling novel was released in 2004, “The Swarm”. He started writing in 1990, and his first book was published only shortly after in 1995. His novel “The Swarm” has received many awards such as: the Goldene Feder in 2005, Deutscher Science Fiction Preis in 2005, and the Corine in 2004.






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