Wilhelm Genazino

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Wilhelm Genazino (born 22 January 1943, Mannheim[1]) is a German journalist and author.

In the 1960s, he studied German, philosophy and sociology at Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main. He worked as a journalist until 1965. During this time, he worked, inter alia, for the satirical magazine Pardon and co-edited the magazine Lesezeichen. Since 1970 he has been working as a freelance author. In 1977 he achieved a breakthrough as a serious writer with his trilogy Abschaffel. In 1990 he became a member of the Academy for Language and Poetry in Darmstadt. After living in Heidelberg for a long time, Genazino moved to Frankfurt in 2004. That same year he was awarded the Georg Büchner Prize,[2] the most prestigious award for German literature.

Selected works

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Honours

References

  1. 1 2 "Kleistpreis 2007 an Wilhelm Genazino" (in German). Kleistpreis. Retrieved 22 February 2011.
  2. "2004 Wilhelm Genazino" (in German). Deutsche Akademie für Sprache und Dichtung. Retrieved 22 February 2011.


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