Marion Poschmann Explained

Marion Poschmann (born 15 December 1969 in Essen) is a German author, novelist, and poet.

Life

Marion Poschmann grew up in Mülheim an der Ruhr and Essen.^[1] From 1989 to 1995 she studied German, philosophy, and Slavic studies in Bonn and Berlin. Her novel The Pine Islands was shortlisted for the Man Booker International Prize in 2019.^[2]

Selected works

Baden bei Gewitter. Frankfurter Verlags-Anstalt, Frankfurt am Main 2002, .
Verschlossene Kammern. zu Klampen, Lüneburg 2002, .
Grund zu Schafen. Frankfurter Verlags-Anstalt, Frankfurt am Main 2004, .
Schwarzweißroman. Frankfurter Verlags-Anstalt, Frankfurt am Main 2005, .
Hundenovelle. Frankfurter Verlags-Anstalt, Frankfurt am Main 2008, .
Geistersehen. Suhrkamp, Berlin 2010, .
Die Sonnenposition. Suhrkamp, Berlin 2013, .
Mondbetrachtung in mondloser Nacht. Über Dichtung. Suhrkamp, Berlin 2016, .^[3]
Geliehene Landschaften. Lehrgedichte und Elegien. Suhrkamp, Berlin 2016, .
Die Kieferninseln. Suhrkamp, Berlin 2017, .^[4]
- English-language edition: The Pine Islands. Translated by Jen Calleja. Serpent's Tail, London 2019, .
Chor der Erinnyen. Roman. Suhrkamp, Berlin 2023, ISBN 978-3-518-43141-2.

Awards

Source:

2003 Wolfgang Weyrauch Promotional Prize
2004 scholarship from the German Academy Rome Villa Massimo
2005 Hans-Erich-Nossack-Förderpreis
2005 Literature Prize Ruhr area
2005 Nominated for the German Book Prize (long list)
2006 Literature Prize of the City of Meersburg
2007 sponsorship award from the state of North Rhine-Westphalia
2009 Art Prize for Literature from the Brandenburg Lotto GmbH
2011 Peter Huchel Prize
2011 Ernst Meister Prize
2012 New York grant from the German Literature Fund
2013 Nominated for the German Book Prize (shortlist)
2013 Wilhelm Raabe Literature Prize
2015 Thomas Kling Poetics Lectureship
2016 Nominated for the Leipzig Book Fair Prize
2017 German Prize for Nature Writing
2017 Düsseldorf Literature Prize
2017 Nominated for the German Book Prize (shortlist)
2018 Berlin Literature Prize, combined with the guest professorship for German-language poetics at the Free University of Berlin
2018 Klopstock Prize for New Literature
2019 Nominated for the Man Booker International Prize (Shortlisted) for The Pine Islands
2019 Zurich Poetics Lecture
2020 Liliencron lectureship for poetry
2020 Poetry Prize Orphil
2020 Hölty Prize for Poetry
2021 Bremen Literature Prize
2021 Word Requests Literature Prize for critical short texts
2022/2023 Stadtschreiber von Bergen^[5]
2023 Joseph-Breitbach-Preis^[6]

References

Web site: Marion Poschmann – Autorenlexikon . LiteraturPort . 17 February 2020 . de . 28 April 2022.
Web site: 2019 shortlist announced- Man Booker International Prize . The Man Booker Prize . 18 April 2019.
Web site: Lyrik von Marion Poschmann – Dichtung als Schule des Sehens . Deutschlandfunk . 28 April 2021 . de . 28 April 2022.
Web site: Claudia . Kramatschek . Marion Poschmann auf suhrkamp.de . Suhrkamp Verlag . 16 June 2021 . de . 28 April 2022.
Web site: Marion Poschmann neue Stadtschreiberin von Bergen-Enkheim . hessenschau.de . 30 June 2022 . de . 15 October 2022.
Web site: Joseph-Breitbach-Preis 2023 an Marion Poschmann : Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur . Mainz . 4 September 2023 . de . 19 December 2023.