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Nora Bossong

German writer

Nora Bossong
Bossong at Leipzig Book Fair 2017
Born	(1982-01-09) 9 January 1982 (age 42) 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

literaturWERKstatt, ed. (2003). "Fischeköpfe". 11. Open Mike, Volume 11. BUCH&media. ISBN 978-3-86520-038-9.
Gegend: Roman, (Area), novel, Frankfurter Verlagsanstalt, 2006, ISBN 978-3-627-00136-0.
Reglose Jagd: Gedichte (Motionless hunting), poems, ISBN 3-933156-88-2.
Location (audio CD), Munich-Spring-Verlag, München 2009.
Webers Protokoll (Weber's protocol), novel, Frankfurter Verlagsanstalt, 2009, ISBN 978-3-627-00159-9.
Sommer vor den Mauern: Gedichte, (Summer before the walls), poetry, Carl Hanser Verlag, Munich 2011, ISBN 3-446-23629-5.
Gesellschaft mit beschränkter Haftung (Limited liability company), novel, Hanser, Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-446-23975-3.^[7]

References

^ "Litrix.de". www.litrix.de.
^ "Nora Bossong – Autoren – Hanser Literaturverlage". www.hanser-literaturverlage.de.
^ ^a ^b Christine Lehnen (4 March 2022), Author Nora Bossong on Germany's new generation of politicians Deutsche Welle.
^ Konstantin Mennecke (14 November 2016), Roswitha-Preis: Berlinerin Nora Bossong wird 2017 ausgezeichnet Hessische/Niedersächsische Allgemeine.
^ "Kranichsteiner Literaturpreis | Literaturpreis Gewinner".
^ Nora Bossong mit Thomas-Mann-Preis 2020 ausgezeichnet Süddeutsche Zeitung, 6 June 2021.
^ "Nora Bossong | New Books in German, Gesellschaft mit beschränkter Haftung (Limited Liability), Author, Rights". Archived from the original on 17 September 2015. Retrieved 11 February 2013.