Natascha Wodin Explained

Natashcha Wodin
Birth Date:8 December 1945
Birth Place:Fürth
Notable Works:Sie kam aus Mariupol
Spouse:Wolfgang Hilbig

Natascha Wodin (born 8 December 1945[1]) is a German writer of Ukrainian origin. She was born in Fürth, Bavaria in 1945 to parents who had been forced labourers under the Nazi regime. She grew up in a camp for displaced persons.[2] Following her mother's suicide,[3] she was raised in a Catholic home for girls. She worked as a telephone operator and stenographer before becoming an interpreter and translator of Russian in the early 1970s.

Wodin has translated literary works from Russian into German and has lived in Moscow. She has written novels, short stories and poetry, and has won many prizes, including the Adelbert-von-Chamisso Prize in 1998, the Brothers Grimm Prize of the City of Hanau in 1989 and 2009, the Alfred Döblin Prize in 2015 and the Leipzig Book Fair Prize in 2017 for Sie kam aus Mariupol, one of her best known books. Her book Irgendwo in diesem Dunkel is a memoir of her father.

She was married to the novelist Wolfgang Hilbig, an experience which she recounts in her book Nachtgeschwister. She has lived in Berlin and Mecklenburg since 1984.[4] [5]

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Uli . Hufen . Roman "Sie kam aus Mariupol" . . 6 July 2018 . de . 30 November 2021.
  2. Web site: Jan . Schulz-Ojala . Nachtseiten des Lebens . . 8 December 2015 . de . 30 November 2021.
  3. Web site: Natascha Wodin . Munzinger Biographie . de . 30 November 2021.
  4. Web site: She Came from Mariupol. 30 November 2021.
  5. Web site: Natascha Wodin | No Man's Land. 30 November 2021.
  6. Web site: Doppelportrait – "Den, den ich finden wollte, habe ich nie gefunden" . Cicero Online . 15 July 2009 . de . 30 November 2021.
  7. Web site: Böhmer . Otto A. . Wodin, Natascha: Alter, fremdes Land . . 1 November 2014 . de . 30 November 2021.
  8. Web site: Schütte . Uwe . Wahnsinn eines Jahrhunderts . . 1 April 2017 . de . 30 November 2021.
  9. Web site: Schütte . Uwe . Tyrannei und Schweigen . . 11 November 2018 . de . 30 November 2021.
  10. Web site: Christel . Wester . Porträt einer illegalen Emigrantin . . 18 August 2021 . de . 30 November 2021.
  11. Web site: Katja . Eßbach . Natascha Wodin: "Nastjas Tränen" – berührendes Porträt einer Kämpferin . NDR.de . 29 September 2021 . de . 30 November 2021.
  12. Web site: She Came from Mariupol . . 1 April 2022 . en . 15 May 2022.
  13. Web site: Natascha Wodin – Autorenlexikon . LiteraturPort . 4 March 2009 . de . 30 November 2021.
  14. Web site: Natascha Wodin erhält neuen Literaturpreis des Vereins Literaturhaus Nürnberg – 360 Grad evangelisch . Sonntagsblatt . de . 30 November 2021.
  15. Web site: Joseph-Breitbach-Preis für Schriftstellerin Natascha Wodin . . 5 May 2021 . de . 7 May 2022.