Peter Wawerzinek

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Peter Wawerzinek
Born
Peter Runkel

(1954-09-28) 28 September 1954 (age 69)
NationalityGerman
Occupation(s)artist and writer

Peter Wawerzinek (born 28 September 1954 as Peter Runkel) is a German artist and writer.[1]

Peter Wawerzinek was born in 1954 in Rostock, in East Germany.[2] His parents escaped from East Germany shortly after his birth leaving him behind. He grew up in the north of East Germany near the coast of the Baltic Sea and was adopted after some years in children's homes.

He moved to

Ingeborg Bachmann Prize in 2010[3] for his excerpt Ich finde dich (I'll Find You) of his novel Rabenliebe (Bad Love, literally: Ravens' Love)[1] which was also on the short-list of the 2010 German Book Prize. Wawerzinek has received numerous grants, among them the author's grant from the German Academy Rome Villa Massimo 2019.[4]

Works

Notes

  1. ^ a b c d e "I'll find you/Bad love". Bachmann Press / Festival of German-Language Literature. Retrieved 2024-03-23.
  2. ^ "Autorenlexikon". Peter Wawerzinek (in German). 14 December 2011. Retrieved 20 June 2021.
  3. ^ "Bachmann-Preis für Peter Wawerzinek". ZEIT ONLINE (in German). Retrieved 20 June 2021.
  4. ^ "Peter Wawerzinek". Kiepenheuer & Witsch (in German). 19 August 2010. Retrieved 20 June 2021.
  5. ^ a b c "Peter Wawerzinek: "Der Liebestölpel"". Deutschlandfunk (in German). 12 November 2019. Retrieved 20 June 2021.

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