Sibylle Lewitscharoff
1954
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2023
photo credits: Wikimedia Commons
country of citizenship: Germany
native language: German
educated at: Freie Universität Berlin
occupation: playwright, writer
award received: Ingeborg Bachmann Prize, Georg Büchner Prize, Marie Luise Kaschnitz Prize, Kleist Prize, Berliner Literaturpreis, Kranichsteiner Literaturpreis, Marieluise-Fleißer-Preis, Wilhelm Raabe Literature Prize, Ricarda-Huch-Preis, Leipzig Book Fair Prize/Fiction, Brüder-Grimm-Poetikprofessur
influenced by: Clemens Brentano
Sibylle Lewitscharoff (German: [ziˈbɪlə leviˈtʃaːʁɔf]; 16 April 1954 – 13 May 2023) was a German author. She first wrote in her spare time as a bookkeeper, quitting after her first novel, Pong, appeared in 1998, and was successful with critics and the public, earning her the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize. It was followed by Consummatus (2006), Apostoloff (2009) and Blumenberg (2011). She received several German literary awards, including the Georg Büchner Prize in 2013, for "[re-exploring] the boundaries of what we consider our daily reality with an inexhaustible energy of observation, narrative fantasy and linguistic inventiveness.". Source: Wikipedia (en)
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