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Eckhart Nickel

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Eckhart Nickel, born 1966 in Frankfurt, studied Art History and Literature in Heidelberg and New York. He was one of the five contributors to the book Tristesse Royale. Das popkulturelle Quintett (‘Tristesse Royale. The pop-cultural quintet’), having made his debut in 2000 with his collection of stories Was ich davon halte (‘What I think about it’). Together with Christian Kracht he produced the literary magazine Der Freund in Kathmandu. Today he writes for various publications including the Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung, the Süddeutsche Zeitung and Die Zeit.

(Updated: 2025)

Awards

  • 2024 Hermann Hesse Literature Prize
  • 2019 The City of Bad Homburg Friedrich Hölderlin Prize for Emerging Talent

More Publications

(Selection)

Spitzweg
Piper Verlag, Munich 2022.

Von unterwegs
Piper Verlag, Munich 2021.

Hysteria
Piper Verlag, Munich 2018.

Gebrauchsanweisung für Kathmandu und Nepal
Piper Verlag, Munich 2009.

Gebrauchsanweisung für Portugal
Piper Verlag, Munich 2003.

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