Leipzig Book Fair Prize (Preis der Leipziger Buchmesse)
1 appearances
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Edition 8 (2012) Winner
Wolfgang Herrndorf
ヴォルフガング・ヘアンドルフ
Worufugangu Herundorufu
Pen Names:
Stimmen（Pen name for his blogs）
Profile
- Gender
- Male
- Born
- 1965-06-12 （Hamburg）
- Died
- 2013-08-26 （Berlin） age 48
- Nationality
- Germany
- Languages
- German
- Residence History
- Berlin
Career
- Occupations
- Author, painter, illustrator, blogger
- Active Years
- 2001-2013
- Memberships
- Autonama (national authors football team)
- Influenced By
- Vladimir Nabokov
- Nominations
- Leipzig Book Fair Prize nomination for Why We Took the Car (2011)
Education
| Institution | Faculty | Department | Degree | Period | Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Academy of Fine Arts, Nuremberg | — | Fine Arts | — | — | Germany |
Academy of Fine Arts, Nuremberg
Fine Arts
Country:
Germany
Awards
| Year | Award | Work | Category | Organization | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 | Deutscher Erzählerpreis | Diesseits des Van-Allen-Gürtels | — | — | win |
| 2012 | Leipzig Book Fair Prize | Sand | Fiction | — | win |
| 2011 | Clemens-Brentano-Preis | Why We Took the Car | — | — | win |
| 2011 | Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis | Why We Took the Car | — | — | win |
| 2012 | Hans Fallada Prize | — | — | — | win |
| 2012 | Literaturpreis des Kulturkreises der deutschen Wirtschaft | — | — | — | win |
Deutscher Erzählerpreis
2008
Work:
Diesseits des Van-Allen-Gürtels
Result:
win
Leipzig Book Fair Prize
2012
Work:
Sand
Category:
Fiction
Result:
win
Clemens-Brentano-Preis
2011
Work:
Why We Took the Car
Result:
win
Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis
2011
Work:
Why We Took the Car
Result:
win
Hans Fallada Prize
2012
Result:
win
Literaturpreis des Kulturkreises der deutschen Wirtschaft
2012
Result:
win
Awards & Nominations
Hans Fallada Prize
1 appearances
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Edition 15 (2012) Winner
Works
Major Works
Why We Took the Car
2010 BildungsromanA bildungsroman about two fourteen-year-old boys
coming of agefriendship
Sand
2011 crime fiction, social novel, historical novelNovel set in the Sahara with elements of crime, society, and history
unreliable narrator
In Plüschgewittern
2002 pop novelYouth novel with a protagonist around 30
Pictures Of Your True Love
2014 novelUnfinished sequel to Tschick from Isa's perspective
Adaptations
- [theater] / Jan Gehlers (2015)
Bibliography
- In Plüschgewittern (2002)
- Diesseits des Van-Allen-Gürtels (2007)
- Die Rosenbaum-Doktrin (2007)
- Why We Took the Car (2010)
- Sand (2011)
- Arbeit und Struktur (2013)
- Pictures Of Your True Love (2014)
- Stimmen. Texte, die bleiben sollten (2018)
Translations of Works
- Tschick → Why We Took the Car (English)
Style & Themes
- Literary Style
- Dramedysatiresocial novelunreliable narrator
- Recurring Motifs
- poetryself-criticism
Health
-
glioblastoma2010-2013Documented illness in blog 'Arbeit und Struktur', impacted writing
Legacy
German author known for bestseller Tschick, died by suicide after glioblastoma diagnosis.
In Popular Culture
- Tschick bestseller, adapted to theater
Trivia
- Married Carola Wimmer in 2013
- Buried at Dorotheenstadt Cemetery
- Held painting exhibitions posthumously