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Thomas Hettche

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Thomas Hettche, born 1964 in Treis near Gießen, studied German Literature, Film Studies and Philosophy in Frankfurt. From 1995 to 1999 he was a juror for the Ingeborg Bachmann Competition in Klagenfurt. Thomas Hettche lives as a freelance writer and journalist in Berlin and in Switzerland.

(Updated: 2020)
 
http://hettche.de/

Awards

  • 2019 Joseph Breitbach Prize
  • 2018 Hermann Hesse Literature Prize
  • 2016 Wolfgang Koeppen Prize
  • 2015 Solothurn Literature Prize
  • 2014 Bavarian Book Prize
  • 2014 Wilhelm Raabe Literature Prize

More Publications

Pfaueninsel
Novel. Verlag Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 2014.
 
Totenberg
Essays. Verlag Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 2012.
 
Die Liebe der Väter
Novel. Verlag Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 2010.
 
Fahrtenbuch 1993–2007
Verlag Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 2007.
 
Der Fall Arbogast.
Crime novel. DuMont Literatur- und Kunstverlag, Cologne 2001.
 
Animationen
DuMont Literatur- und Kunstverlag, Cologne 1999.
 
Nox
Novel. Suhrkamp Verlag, Frankfurt 1995.
 
Inkubation
Suhrkamp Verlag, Frankfurt 1992.
 
Ludwig muß sterben.
Novel. Suhrkamp Verlag, Frankfurt 1989.

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