| Nora Wagener | |
| Birth Date: | 21 March 1989 |
| Birth Place: | Luxembourg City |
| Citizenship: | Luxembourger |
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| Occupation: | Novelist, children's writer, playwright |
| Awards: | Prix Servais |
Nora Wagener (born 1989) is a Luxembourgish short story writer, novelist, children's writer and playwright who writes mainly in German. She has won many awards including the 2017 Prix Servais for Larven (Larvae), a collection of short stories, which was judged to be the most significant literary work published in Luxembourg in 2016.[1] [2]
Born in Luxembourg City on 21 March 1989, she was brought up in Mersch. After matriculating from the Lycée Robert-Schuman in 2008, she studied creative literature and journalism at the University of Hildesheim, Germany, graduating in 2012. The following year, she received a diploma in Luxembourg language and culture from Luxembourg's Institut National des Langues.[1]
In 2011, she published the novel Menschenliebe und Vogel, schrei in which the narrator reflects on life and her own identity while staying with her grandmother. In 2015, she wrote Visions, a play featuring a depressed woman, which was presented in Esch-sur-Alzette under the direction of Claire Thill. The same year she published E. Galaxien with short stories about Erwin, Edgar and Eleonore whose lives develop in different environments.[1]
In 2016, after collaborating with fellow writer Luc Caregari on the children's story d’Glühschwéngchen in Luxembourgish, she published Larven, a collection of 16 romantic short stories.[1] The book earned her the Prix Servais but also the Prix Coup de coeur, under the Lëtzebuerger Bircerhpräis.[3]