Alissa Walser

German writer, painter, and translator · Germany · On the map · Writers · Born 1961 · age 65

Alissa Walser is a German writer, translator, and artist. She was born in Friedrichshafen on Lake Constance. Her father is the German writer Martin Walser. She is known for her short stories, plays, novels, and translations.

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2009Paul Scheerbart PrizeAward2001Märkisch Scholarship for LiteratureAward1992Ingeborg Bachmann PrizeAward1961Born24 January 1961

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Awards

Paul Scheerbart Prize2009

Märkisch Scholarship for Literature2001

Ingeborg Bachmann Prize1992

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Many of her stories include drawings which seem to interrupt them but instead continue the narrative on a different level. She has won a number of German literary prizes.

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Germany