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Sten Nadolny

シュテン・ナドルニー

Shuten Nadorunī

Profile

Gender
Male
Born
1942-07-29 (Zehdenick)
Nationality
Germany
Languages
German
Residence History
Traunstein, Upper Bavaria → Berlin

Career

Occupations
novelist, history teacher, production manager (film)
Active Years
1981-
Affiliations
Bayerische Akademie der Schönen Künste
Influenced By
Burkhard Nadolny, Isabella Nadolny

Education

Free University of Berlin
History and Political Science
Degree: PhD
Period: 1960年代-1976
Year of Graduation: 1976
Country: Germany
Dissertation on German disarmament diplomacy at the 1932/33 Geneva Conference

Awards

Ingeborg Bachmann Prize
1980
Work: Kopenhagen 1801
Result: 受賞
Hans Fallada Prize
1985
Result: 受賞
Premio Vallombrosa
1986
Result: 受賞
Ernst Hoferichter Prize
1995
Result: 受賞
Jakob-Wassermann-Literaturpreis
2004
Result: 受賞
Mainzer Stadtschreiber
2005
Result: 受賞
Weilheimer Literature Prize
2010
Result: 受賞

Awards & Nominations

Works

Major Works

Die Entdeckung der Langsamkeit (The Discovery of Slowness)

1983 Historical novel

A fictionalized meditation on the life of British Arctic explorer John Franklin, exploring the value of slowness.

slownesstimeexploration
Translations
  • English translation: The Discovery of Slowness

Bibliography

  • Abrüstungsdiplomatie 1932/33 (1978)
  • Netzkarte (1981)
  • Die Entdeckung der Langsamkeit (1983)
  • Selim oder Die Gabe der Rede (1990)
  • Das Erzählen und die guten Absichten (1990)
  • Ein Gott der Frechheit (1994)
  • Er oder ich (1999)
  • Das Erzählen und die guten Ideen (2001)
  • Ullsteinroman (2003)
  • Deutsche Gestalten (2004)
  • Putz- und Flickstunde (2009)
  • Weitlings Sommerfrische (2012)
  • Das Glück des Zauberers (2017)

Style & Themes

Literary Style
deliberate pacingblending of historical fact and fiction
Recurring Motifs
time and slownesshuman limitations

Legacy

Prominent German novelist known for 'The Discovery of Slowness', praised for themes of slowness and deliberate living.