Fiction

Monika Maron

Photo: © Günter Prust

Monika Maron, born 1941 in Berlin, grew up initially in West Berlin and later in East Berlin. She worked for a year as a machinist in an aircraft factory near Dresden, took a degree in Theatre Studies and Art History, then worked as an assistant television director. A freelance writer since 1976, she emigrated to West Germany with her family in 1988. She lives in Berlin.

(Updated: 2020)

Awards

  • 2017 Ida Dehmel Literature Prize 
  • 2011 Saxony Lessing Prize
  • 2009 German National Prize 
  • 2003 Carl Zuckmayer Medal
  • 2003 City of Bad Homburg Friedrich Hölderlin Prize
  • 1995 Evangelical Book Prize
  • 1994 Roswitha Prize 
  • 1994 Solothurn Literature Prize 
  • 1992 Kleist Prize 
  • 1991 City of Hanau Grimm Brothers Prize
  • 1990 Irmgard Heilmann Prize   

More Publications

Artur Lanz.
Novel. S. Fischer Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2020.
 
Munin oder Chaos im Kopf
Novel. S. Fischer Verlag, Frankfurt 2018.
 
Zwei Brüder. Gedanken zur Einheit 1989–2009
Fischer Verlag, Frankfurt 2010.
 
Ach Glück
Novel. S. Fischer Verlag, Frankfurt 2007.
 
Wie ich ein Buch nicht schreiben kann und es trotzdem versuche
S. Fischer Verlag, Frankfurt 2005.
 
Endmoränen
Novel. S. Fischer Verlag, Frankfurt 2002.
 
Pawels Briefe. Eine Familiengeschichte
S. Fischer Verlag, Frankfurt 1999.
 
Animal triste
Novel. S. Fischer Verlag, Frankfurt 1996.
 
Nach Maßgabe meiner Begreifungskraft
S. Fischer Verlag, Frankfurt 1993.
 
Stille Zeile Sechs
Novel. S. Fischer Verlag, Frankfurt 1991.
 
Die Überläuferin
Novel. S. Fischer Verlag, Frankfurt 1986.
 
Flugasche
Novel. S. Fischer Verlag, Frankfurt 1981.

Featured Books

Book cover Between the acts

Zwischenspiel
[Between the acts]

S. Fischer Verlag

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