Fiction

Friedrich Christian Delius

Friedrich Christian Delius, born 1943 in Rome, studied German Literature in Berlin at the Free University and then at the Technical University, where he completed his doctorate under Walter Höllerer in 1971. From 1970 to 1978 he worked as a literary editor at the Klaus Wagenbach and Rotbuch publishing houses. Delius has lived as a freelance writer in Berlin and Rome since 1978.

(Updated: 2020)

Awards

  • 2012  Gerty Spies Literature Prize
  • 2011 Georg Büchner Prize
  • 2009 Evangelical Book Prize
  • 2007 Joseph Breitbach Prize
  • 2007 German Critics Prize
  • 2004 Walter Hasenclever Literature Prize
  • 1989 Gerrit Engelke Prize

More Publications

Wenn die Chinesen Rügen kaufen, dann denkt an mich. Novel
Rowohlt Verlag, Berlin 2019.
 
Die Zukunft der Schönheit. Story
Rowohlt Verlag, Berlin 2018.
 
Die Liebesgeschichtenerzählerin. Novel
Rowohlt Verlag, Berlin 2016.
 
Die linke Hand des Papstes. Story
Rowohlt Verlag, Berlin 2013.
 
Die Minute mit Paul McCartney. Memo-Arien
Transit-Verlag, Berlin 2005.
 
Der Königsmacher. Novel
Rowohlt Verlag, Berlin 2001.
 
Die Flatterzunge. Story.
Rowohlt Verlag, Reinbek 1999.
 
Selbstporträt mit Luftbrücke. Poems
Rowohlt Verlag, Reinbek 1993.
 
Mogadischu Fensterplatz. Novel
Rowohlt Verlag, Reinbek 1987.
 
Adenauerplatz. Roman.
Rowohlt Verlag, Reinbek 1984.
 
Wenn wir, bei Rot. 38 Poems
Wagenbach, Berlin 1969.
 
Kerbholz. Poems
Wagenbach, Berlin 1965

Featured Books

Book cover The woman for whom I invented the computer

Die Frau, für die ich den Computer erfand
[The woman for whom I invented the computer]

Rowohlt Buchverlag

Book cover My year as a murderer

Mein Jahr als Mörder
[My year as a murderer]

Rowohlt Buchverlag

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