Poetry

Marcel Beyer

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Born in Tailfingen (Württemberg), Marcel Beyer grew up in Kiel and Neuss. He took courses in German Studies, English Studies and Literature at Siegen University, and gained his MA in 1992 with a thesis on Friederike Mayröcker. As both a poet and the author of novels and essays, Marcel Beyer is one of the key voices in contemporary German-language literature. He has lived in Dresden since 1996.
 
(Updated 2021)

Awards

  • 2021 Peter Huchel Prize
  • 2019 Dresden City Arts Prize
  • 2019 Lessing Prize of the Free State of Saxony
  • 2016 Georg Büchner Prize
  • 2016 Düsseldorf Literature Prize
  • 2014 Oskar Pastior Prize
  • 2014  Kleist Prize
  • 2008 Joseph Breitbach Prize
  • 2006 Erich Fried Prize
  • 2001 Heinrich Böll Prize
  • 1997 Uwe Johnson Prize
  • 1996 Berlin Literature Prize

More Publications

Das blindgeweinte Jahrhundert
Bild und Ton. Suhrkamp Verlag, Berlin 2017.
 
Graphit
Gedichte. Suhrkamp Verlag, Berlin 2014.
 
Ulli Lust, Marcel Beyer: Flughunde
Graphic Novel. Suhrkamp Verlag, Berlin 2013.
 
Flughunde
Suhrkamp Verlag, Berlin 2012.
 
Putins Briefkasten
Acht Recherchen. Suhrkamp Verlag, Berlin 2012.
 
Spione
Roman. Suhrkamp Verlag, Berlin 2010.
 
Kaltenburg
Roman. Suhrkamp Verlag, Berlin 2009.
 
Vergesst mich
Erzählung. DuMont Verlag, Köln 2006.
 
Nonfiction
DuMont Verlag, Köln 2003.
 
Erdkunde
Gedichte. DuMont Verlag, Köln 2002.
 
Spione
Roman. DuMont Verlag, Köln 2000.
 
Falsches Futter
Gedichte. Suhrkamp Verlag, Frankfurt a.M. 1997.
 
Flughunde
Roman. Suhrkamp Verlag, Frankfurt a.M. 1995.
 
Das Menschenfleisch
Roman. Suhrkamp Verlag, Frankfurt a.M. 1991.

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