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Dorothee Elmiger

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Dorothee Elmiger, born in Switzerland in 1985, studied literature at the Swiss Literature Institute in Biel/Bienne and at the German Literature Institute in Leipzig, as well as history, philosophy and political science at the University of Lucerne and the Free University of Berlin. She lives in New York as a freelance author and translator.

(Updated: 2025)

Awards

  • 2025 German Book Prize for “Die Holländerinnen” [The Dutch Women]
  • 2025 Bavarian Book Prize for “Die Holländerinnen” [The Dutch Women]
  • 2025 Swiss Book Prize for Die “Holländerinnen” [The Dutch Women]
  • 2022 Nicolas Born Prize
  • 2021 Franz Hessel Prize for “Aus der Zuckerfabrik” [From the Sugar Factory]
  • 2020 Literary Award of the City of Zurich for “Aus der Zuckerfabrik” [From the Sugar Factory]
  • 2018 Max Frisch Prize of the City of Zurich
  • 2018 Conrad Ferdinand Meyer Prize for “Einladung an die Waghalsigen und Schlafgänger” [Invitation to the Daredevils and Sleepwalkers]
  • 2015 Erich Fried Prize
  • 2014 Hermann Hesse Sponsorship Prize for “Schlafgänger” [Sleepwalkers]
  • 2010 Kelag Prize at the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize

More Publications

Aus der Zuckerfabrik
Novel/Essay. Hanser, Munich 2020.

Schlafgänger
Novel. DuMont, Cologne 2014.

Einladung an die Waghalsigen
Novel. DuMont, Cologne 2010.

Featured Books

Book cover The Dutch Women

Die Holländerinnen
[The Dutch Women]

Hanser Berlin

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