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Heinz Helle

Photo: © Max Zerrahn

Heinz Helle, born 1978 in Munich, studied Philosophy in Munich and New York. He has worked as a copywriter for advertising agencies, and is a graduate of the Swiss Literature Institute in Biel. He lives with his family in Zurich.

(Updated: 2020)

Awards

  • 2019 Bremen Literature Prize - Emerging Talent
  • 2018 City of Zurich Literary Award
  • 2017 City of Zurich Literary Award
  • 2014 Literary Prize of the Canton of Berne
  • 2013 Ingeborg Bachmann Competition - Ernst Willner Prize
  • 2011 Walter Kempowski Literature Prize

More Publications

Eigentlich müssten wir tanzen
Novel. Suhrkamp Verlag, Berlin 2015.
 
Der beruhigende Klang von explodierendem Kerosin
Novel. Suhrkamp Verlag, Berlin 2014.

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