Fiction

Natascha Wodin

Photo: © Susanne Schleyer / autorenarchiv.de

Natasha Wodin, born 1945 in Fürth as the child of Soviet forced labourers, grew up first in German post-war camps for ‘Displaced Persons’, then in a children’s home. In the early 1970s she completed a language school course and worked as an interpreter and later as a literary translator. Based in Berlin and Mecklenburg, she has worked as a freelance writer since 1980.

(Updated: 2020)

Awards

  • 2019  Hilde Domin Prize
  • 2017  August Graf von Platen Prize
  • 2017  Leipzig Book Fair Prize - Fiction
  • 2015  Alfred Döblin Prize
  • 2009  City of Hanau Brothers Grimm Prize
  • 2006  Kester Haeusler Award of Honour of the Schiller Foundation 1859
  • 2005  Wolfram von Eschenbach Prize
  • 1998  Adelbert von Chamisso Prize
  • 1989  City of Hanau Brothers Grimm Prize
  • 1985  Andreas Gryphius Prize
  • 1984  City of Nuremberg Culture Prize - Emerging Talent
  • 1984  Hermann Hesse Prize

More Publications

Irgendwo in diesem Dunkel
Rowohlt Verlag, Reinbek bei Hamburg 2018.
 
Alter, fremdes Land
Novel. Jung und Jung Verlag, Salzburg/Vienna 2014.
 
Nachtgeschwister
Novel. Verlag Antje Kunstmann, Munich 2009.
 
Die Ehe
Novel. Verlag Gustav Kiepenheuer, Leipzig 1997.
 
Erfindung einer Liebe
Novel. Reclam Verlag, Leipzig 1994.
 
Einmal lebt ich
Novel. Luchterhand Verlag, Frankfurt 1989.
 
Das Sprachverlies
Poems. Rowohlt Verlag, Reinbek bei Hamburg 1987.
 
Die gläserne Stadt. Eine Erzählung
Rowohlt Verlag, Reinbek bei Hamburg 1983.

Featured Books

Book cover She Came From Mariupol

Sie kam aus Mariupol
[She Came From Mariupol]

Rowohlt Buchverlag

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