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Wolfgang Herrndorf

Photo: © Ira Struebel

Wolfgang Herrndorf, born 1965 in Hamburg, studied painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Nuremberg and lived as a writer and illustrator in Berlin. He died in Berlin in 2013.

(Updated: 2020)

Awards

  • 2012 Leipzig Book Fair Prize
  • 2012 Hans Fallada Prize
  • 2011 German Young Adult Literature Prize
  • 2011 Clemens Brentano Prize
  • 2008 German Short Story Prize (Deutscher Erzählerpreis)

More Publications

Bilder deiner großen Liebe. Ein unvollendeter Roman.
Rowohlt Berlin, Berlin 2014
 
Arbeit und Struktur
Rowohlt Verlag, Berlin 2013.
 
Sand
Novel. Rowohlt Verlag, Berlin 2011.
 
Tschick
Novel. Rowohlt Verlag, Berlin 2010.
 
In Plüschgewittern
Novel. Haffmans bei Zweitausendeins, Frankfurt 2002.

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