Dorothea Dieckmann
Dorothea Dieckmann | |
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| Born | 1957 (age 63–64) Freiburg |
| Nationality | German |
| Occupation | Writer, Teacher |
Dorothea Dieckmann is a German writer.[1]
Biography[]
Dorothea Dieckmann was born in Freiburg in 1957. She has lived in Hamburg, Cologne, Rome,[2] Tübingen and Stuttgart. Prior to becoming a full-time writer Diechmann worked as a high school teacher.
Her novel was her first to be translated into English.[3] When Tim Mohr translated the novel into English, he won the Best Translated Book Award.[1]
Awards and honours[]
She is a recipient of the 1990 . In 1997, she received the Künstlerhaus Schloss Wiepersdorf scholarship. In 1998, she received the Marburger Literaturpreis. In 2004, she received a scholarship from Ledig House. In 2009, she was chosen to be Dresden's writer in residence.[2]
References[]
- ^ Jump up to: a b "Guantanamo". Publishers Weekly. 2007. Archived from the original on 2015-04-17.
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"Hamburgerin wird neue Stadtschreiberin" [Hamburg is new city clerk] (in German). Sächsische Zeitung. 2009-05-03. Retrieved 2015-04-17.
Die Hamburger Schriftstellerin und Kritikerin Dorothea Dieckmann wird neue Stadtschreiberin in Dresden. Die 51-Jährige wurde von einer Jury unter 73 Bewerbern ausgewählt.
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Michel Faber (2008-06-21). "Scenes from an execution". The Guardian (UK). Archived from the original on 2015-04-17.
Dieckmann is an essayist and critic of high standing in Germany, and has also written prize-winning fiction which has not yet been translated into English. No surprise there: a mere 3% of books published in English are translations and most of those are non-literary enterprises. Guantánamo has just won the aptly named Three Percent prize for translated foreign fiction, thanks to the midwifery of Soft Skull Press, a small New York publishing house specialising in controversial subjects, and Tim Mohr, staff editor at Playboy magazine.
External links[]
- Works by or about Dorothea Dieckmann in the catalog of the German National Library
- Short biography and reviews of works by Dorothea Dieckmann at perlentaucher.de
- http://www.digitab.de/home/vita/dodivi_0.htm
- http://bachmannpreis.orf.at/bachmannpreis/texte/stories/14244/
- http://www.single-generation.de/kohorten/dorothea_dieckmann.htm
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