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Sibylle Lewitscharoff

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German author (1954-2023)

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Sibylle Lewitscharoff was a German author. She first wrote in her spare time as a bookkeeper, quitting after her first novel, Pong, appeared in 1998. Pong was successful with critics and the public, earning her the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize. It was followed by Consummatus (2006), Apostoloff (2009) and Blumenberg (2011).

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2013Georg Büchner Prize
2013Brüder-Grimm-Poetikprofessur
2011Kleist Prize
2011Marieluise-Fleißer-Preis
2011Wilhelm Raabe Literature Prize
2011Ricarda-Huch-Preis
2010Berliner Literaturpreis
2009Leipzig Book Fair Prize/Fiction
2008Marie Luise Kaschnitz Prize
2006Kranichsteiner Literaturpreis
1998Ingeborg Bachmann Prize
Rome Prize of the German Academy Villa Massimo

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Sibylle Lewitscharoff was a German author. She first wrote in her spare time as a bookkeeper, quitting after her first novel, Pong, appeared in 1998. Pong was successful with critics and the public, earning her the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize. It was followed by Consummatus (2006), Apostoloff (2009) and Blumenberg (2011). She received several German literary awards, including the Georg Büchner Prize in 2013, for "[re-exploring] the boundaries of what we consider our daily reality with an inexhaustible energy of observation, narrative fantasy and linguistic inventiveness.".

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Germany
Category
Writers
Type
Writer / Author
Status
deceased
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Lived 1954 to 2023 · aged 69
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18 languages

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