Ingeborg Bachmann Prize
1 appearances
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Edition 14 (1990) Winner
Birgit Vanderbeke
ビリギット・ファン・デル・ベーケ
Birgitto Van der Bēke
Profile
- Gender
- Female
- Born
- 1956-08-08 （Dahme, Brandenburg）
- Died
- 2021-12-24 （Southern France） age 65
- Nationality
- Germany
- Languages
- German
- Religion
- Unknown
- Residence History
- Dahme, East Germany (birthplace) → Frankfurt am Main, West Germany (from 1961) → Southern France (from 1993)
Career
- Occupations
- writer
- Active Years
- 1990-2021
- Nominations
- Independent Foreign Fiction Prize shortlist (The Mussel Feast, 2014)
Education
| Institution | Faculty | Department | Degree | Period | Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unspecified (studied Law, Germanic and Romance languages) | — | Law, Germanic and Romance languages | — | — | Germany |
Unspecified (studied Law, Germanic and Romance languages)
Law, Germanic and Romance languages
Country:
Germany
Awards
| Year | Award | Work | Category | Organization | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1990 | Ingeborg-Bachmann-Preis | Das Muschelessen | — | — | 受賞 |
| 1997 | Kranichsteiner Literaturpreis | — | — | — | 受賞 |
| 1999 | Solothurner Literaturpreis | — | — | — | 受賞 |
| 1999 | Roswitha Prize | — | — | — | 受賞 |
| 2002 | Hans Fallada Prize | — | — | — | 受賞 |
| 2007 | Brothers Grimm Poetics Professorship | — | — | University of Kassel | 受賞 |
Ingeborg-Bachmann-Preis
1990
Work:
Das Muschelessen
Result:
受賞
Kranichsteiner Literaturpreis
1997
Result:
受賞
Solothurner Literaturpreis
1999
Result:
受賞
Roswitha Prize
1999
Result:
受賞
Hans Fallada Prize
2002
Result:
受賞
Brothers Grimm Poetics Professorship
2007
Organization:
University of Kassel
Result:
受賞
Awards & Nominations
Roswitha Prize
1 appearances
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Edition 25 (1999) Winner
Solothurner Literaturpreis
1 appearances
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Edition 6 (1999) Winner
Hans Fallada Prize
1 appearances
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Edition 10 (2002) Winner
Works
Major Works
Das Muschelessen
1990 novelDebut novel about a family dinner.
familyoppression
Translations
- English: The Mussel Feast (trans. Jamie Bulloch, Peirene Press, 2013)
Bibliography
- Das Muschelessen (1990)
- Fehlende Teile (1992)
- Gut genug (1993)
- Ich will meinen Mord (1995)
- Friedliche Zeiten (1996)
- Alberta empfängt einen Liebhaber (1997)
- Ich sehe was, was Du nicht siehst (1999)
- Hexenreden (1999)
- Ariel oder der Sturm auf die weiße Wäsche (2001)
- Abgehängt (2001)
- Gebrauchsanweisung für Südfrankreich (2002)
- Geld oder Leben (2003)
- Schmeckt’s? (2004)
- Sweet sixteen (2005)
- Die sonderbare Karriere der Frau Choi (2007)
- Das lässt sich ändern (2011)
- Die Frau mit dem Hund (2012)
- Der Sommer der Wildschweine (2013)
- Ich freue mich, dass ich geboren bin (2016)
- Wer dann noch lachen kann (2017)
- Alle, die vor uns da waren (2020)
Translations of Works
- You Would Have Missed Me (trans. Jamie Bulloch, 2019)
Style & Themes
- Literary Style
- sharp humorsatire of everyday life
- Recurring Motifs
- family dynamicssocial norms
Legacy
Prominent German writer known internationally for her debut novel The Mussel Feast.
Trivia
- Born in East Germany, moved to West Germany.
- Lived in southern France.