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
- Laslinstrasse, 1965
- Abschaffel-Trilogie:
- Abschaffel, 1977
- Die Vernichtung der Sorgen, 1978
- Falsche Jahre, 1979
- Der Fleck, die Jacke, die Zimmer, der Schmerz, 1989 (The mark, the jacket, the room, the pain)
- Die Kassiererinnen, 1998 (Road works ahead)
- Ein Regenschirm für diesen Tag, 2001 (An umbrella for one day)
- Eine Frau, eine Wohnung, ein Roman, 2003 (A woman, a flat, a novel)
- Der gedehnte Blick, 2004 (The extended gaze)
- Die Liebesblödigkeit, 2005 (The love stupidity)
- Mittelmäßiges Heimweh, 2007 (Moderate homesickness)
In Translation
- Ein Regenschirm für diesen Tag has been translated into English (by Philip Boehm as The Shoe Tester of Frankfurt, New York: New Directions, 2006), Chinese, French, Italian, Greek and Lithuanian.
- Eine Frau, eine Wohnung, ein Roman has been translated into French, Spanish, Polish, Chinese, and Hebrew.
- Translations of works by Wilhelm Genazino have also been published in Greek, Latvian and Russian.
Honours
- “Förderaktion für zeitgenössische Autoren”, 1982
- “Bremer Literaturpreises“, 1990
- Solothurner Literaturpreis, 1995
- “Berliner Literaturpreis der Stiftung Preußische Seehandlung“, 1996
- “Stadtschreiber von Bergen-Enkheim“, 1996/97
- “Literaturpreis der Bayerischen Akademie der schönen Künste“, 1998
- “Kranichsteiner Literaturpreis“, 2001
- Kunstpreis Berlin, 2003
- “Hans-Fallada-Preis“, 2003
- Georg Büchner Prize, 2004
- Kleist Prize, 2007[1]
- Rinke Language Prize Guntram und Irene Rinke Stiftung, 2010
- Kassel Literary Prize, 2013
References
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