Nora Bossong Explained

Nora Bossong
Birth Date:	9 January 1982
Birth Place:	Bremen, Germany
Occupation:	Novelist, poet
Language:	German
Nationality:	German
Genre:	poetry

Nora Bossong (born 9 January 1982) is a German writer. She lives in Berlin.^[1]

Career

Bossong studied literature at the German Institute for Literature,^[2] as well as cultural studies, philosophy and comparative literature at the Humboldt University of Berlin, the University of Potsdam, and the Sapienza University of Rome. She was a 2001 Fellow of the first Wolfenbüttel literature laboratory.

Bossong's poetry and prose have been published in individual newspapers, anthologies and literary journals. In 2006, she published her debut novel. In 2022, she published a non-fiction book about her generation, Die Geschmeidigen: Meine Generation und der neue Ernst des Lebens (The Smooth Ones: My generation and life's new seriousness).^[3]

An advocate for democracy, peace and human rights, Bossong was also a member of the presidium of the PEN Centre Germany for two years.^[3]

Awards

• 2001 – Young Authors meeting winner
• 2001 – Bremer Author scholarship
• 2003 – Klagenfurt Literature Course
• 2004 – Leipzig Literature Scholarship
• 2005 – prose fellowship from the Jürgen Ponto Foundation
• 2007 – Wolfgang Weyrauch Prize
• 2007 – Berlin Senate Scholarship
• 2008 – New York Fellowship in the German House
• 2010 – Scholarship from the Heinrich-Heine House of Lüneburg
• 2011 – Berliner Kunstpreis, the Academy of Arts Berlin
• 2012 – Peter-Huchel-Preis for Sommer vor den Mauern
• 2017 – Roswitha Prize^[4]
• 2019 – Kranichsteiner Literaturpreis for Gesellschaft mit beschränkter Haftung^[5]
• 2020 – Thomas Mann Prize^[6]

Publications

• Book: https://books.google.com/books?id=znqEUmw4WzcC&dq=Nora+Bossong&pg=PA21. Fischeköpfe. 11. Open Mike, Volume 11. literaturWERKstatt. BUCH&media. 2003. 978-3-86520-038-9.
• Gegend: Roman, (Area), novel, Frankfurter Verlagsanstalt, 2006, .
• Reglose Jagd: Gedichte (Motionless hunting), poems, .
• Location (audio CD), Munich-Spring-Verlag, München 2009.
• Webers Protokoll (Weber's protocol), novel, Frankfurter Verlagsanstalt, 2009, .
• Sommer vor den Mauern: Gedichte, (Summer before the walls), poetry, Carl Hanser Verlag, Munich 2011, .
• Gesellschaft mit beschränkter Haftung (Limited liability company), novel, Hanser, Munich 2012, .^[7]

External links

• "10 Fragen an", Goethe Institut, Juli 2011
• News: Alte Tante Politik. 11 February 2013. Die Zeit. 16 January 2012.

Notes and References

1. Web site: Litrix.de. www.litrix.de.
2. Web site: Nora Bossong – Autoren – Hanser Literaturverlage. www.hanser-literaturverlage.de.
3. Christine Lehnen (4 March 2022), Author Nora Bossong on Germany's new generation of politicians Deutsche Welle.
4. Konstantin Mennecke (14 November 2016), Roswitha-Preis: Berlinerin Nora Bossong wird 2017 ausgezeichnet Hessische/Niedersächsische Allgemeine.
5. Web site: Kranichsteiner Literaturpreis | Literaturpreis Gewinner.
6. https://www.sueddeutsche.de/kultur/literatur-nora-bossong-mit-thomas-mann-preis-2020-ausgezeichnet-dpa.urn-newsml-dpa-com-20090101-210606-99-882896 Nora Bossong mit Thomas-Mann-Preis 2020 ausgezeichnet
7. Web site: Nora Bossong New Books in German, Gesellschaft mit beschränkter Haftung (Limited Liability), Author, Rights . 11 February 2013 . https://web.archive.org/web/20150917030557/http://www.new-books-in-german.com/english/1181/354/354/129002/design1.html . 17 September 2015 . dead .