Fiction

Jenny Erpenbeck

Jenny Erpenbeck, born 1967 in East Berlin, began a course in Theatre Studies at the Humboldt University in Berlin, then transferred in 1989 to the Hanns Eisler School of Music in Berlin, where she studied Musical Theatre Direction. In the 1990s she began writing alongside her work as a stage director, producing novels as well as plays for both stage and radio; her work has been translated into more than thirty languages. She lives in Berlin.

(Updated: 2020)

Awards

  • 2019   Usedomer Literature Prize
  • 2016   Thomas Mann Prize
  • 2016   Walter Hasenclever Literature Prize
  • 2015   Independent Foreign Fiction Prize
  • 2014   Hans Fallada Prize
  • 2013   Evangelical Book Prize
  • 2013   Joseph Breitbach Prize
  • 2013   Schubart Literature Prize
  • 2008   Heimito von Doderer Literature Prize
  • 2008   Solothurner Literature Prize
  • 2004   GEDOK Literature Prize - Emerging Talent
  • 2001   Jury Prize, Ingeborg Bachmann Competition

More Publications

Dinge, die verschwinden
Galiani Verlag, Berlin 2009.
 
Wörterbuch
Eichborn Verlag, Frankfurt 2004.
 
Tand. Erzählungen
Eichborn Verlag, Frankfurt 2001.
 
Geschichte vom alten Kind
Eichborn Verlag, Frankfurt 1999.

Featured Books

Book cover Go, Went, Gone

Gehen, ging, gegangen
[Go, Went, Gone]

Albrecht Knaus Verlag

Book cover The End of Days

Aller Tage Abend
[The End of Days]

Albrecht Knaus Verlag

Book cover Visitation

Heimsuchung
[Visitation]

Eichborn Verlag

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