German writer of Ukrainian origin (born 1945)
Natashcha Wodin
Natascha Wodin in 2016
Born (1945-12-08 ) December 8, 1945 (age 79) Fürth Notable works Sie kam aus Mariupol Spouse Wolfgang Hilbig
Natascha Wodin (born 8 December 1945[ 1] ) is a German writer of Ukrainian origin. She was born in Fürth , Bavaria in 1945 to parents who had been forced labourers under the Nazi regime . She grew up in a camp for displaced persons.[ 2] Following her mother's suicide,[ 3] she was raised in a Catholic home for girls. She worked as a telephone operator and stenographer before becoming an interpreter and translator of Russian in the early 1970s.
Wodin has translated literary works from Russian into German and has lived in Moscow. She has written novels, short stories and poetry, and has won many prizes, including the Adelbert-von-Chamisso Prize in 1998, the Brothers Grimm Prize of the City of Hanau in 1989 and 2009, the Alfred Döblin Prize in 2015 and the Leipzig Book Fair Prize in 2017 for Sie kam aus Mariupol , one of her best known books. Her book Irgendwo in diesem Dunkel is a memoir of her father.
She was married to the novelist Wolfgang Hilbig ,[ 2] an experience which she recounts in her book Nachtgeschwister . She has lived in Berlin and Mecklenburg since 1984.[ 4] [ 5]
Works
Die gläserne Stadt. Rowohlt, Reinbek 1983. ISBN 3-498-07296-X .
Nadja: Briefe aus Russland. editor, translator and introduction by Natascha Wodin. Nishen, Kreuzberg 1984. ISBN 3-88940-003-5 .
Das Sprachverlies. poems. Rowohlt, Reinbek 1987. ISBN 3-546-49825-9 .
Einmal lebt ich. DTV, München 1989. ISBN 3-423-11575-0 .
Sergej. Griechisches Tagebuch. Büchergilde Gutenberg, 1993. ISBN 978-3-379-00746-7
Erfindung einer Liebe. Reclam, Leipzig 1993. ISBN 3-379-00745-5 .
Die Ehe. Kiepenheuer, Leipzig 1997. ISBN 3-378-00596-3 .
Das Singen der Fische. Kiepenheuer, Leipzig 2001. ISBN 3-88423-182-0 .
Nachtgeschwister. Kunstmann, München 2009. ISBN 978-3-88897-560-8 .[ 6]
Alter, fremdes Land. Jung und Jung, Salzburg/Wien 2014. ISBN 978-3-99027-057-8 .[ 7]
Sie kam aus Mariupol [de ] . Rowohlt, Reinbek 2017. ISBN 978-3-498-07389-3 .[ 8]
Irgendwo in diesem Dunkel . Rowohlt, Reinbek 2018. ISBN 978-3-498-07403-6 .[ 9]
Nastjas Tränen . Rowohlt Hamburg 2021. ISBN 978-3-498-00260-2 .[ 10] [ 11]
English translations
Awards
Source:[ 13]
1981 Scholarship of the Deutscher Literaturfonds
1984 Hermann-Hesse-Preis
1984 Kulturförderpreis der Stadt Nürnberg
1985 Andreas-Gryphius-Förderpreis
1987 Scholarship of the Deutscher Literaturfonds
1988 Scholarship of the Deutscher Literaturfonds
1988 Scholarship in Künstlerhaus Edenkoben
1989 Brothers Grimm Prize of the City of Hanau
1990 Scholarship at the Akademie Schloß Solitude
1992 Scholarship in Künstlerdorf Schöppingen
1998 Adelbert von Chamisso Prize
2004 Scholarship of the Stiftung Preussische Seehandlung
2005 Wolfram-von-Eschenbach-Preis
2006 Ehrengabe der Deutschen Schillerstiftung
2009 Brothers Grimm Prize of the City of Hanau
2010 Scholarship of the Deutscher Literaturfonds
2015 Scholarship of the Deutscher Literaturfonds
2015 Alfred Döblin Prize
2016 Arbeitsstipendium des Berliner Senats
2017 Leipzig Book Fair Prize in the category of fiction
2017 August Graf von Platen Prize
2019 Hilde-Domin-Preis für Literatur im Exil
2021 Gisela-Elsner-Preis[ 14]
2022 Joseph-Breitbach-Preis [ 15]
References
^ Hufen, Uli (6 July 2018). "Roman "Sie kam aus Mariupol" " . Deutschlandfunk (in German). Retrieved 30 November 2021 .
^ a b Schulz-Ojala, Jan (8 December 2015). "Nachtseiten des Lebens" . Der Tagesspiegel (in German). Retrieved 30 November 2021 .
^ "Natascha Wodin" . Munzinger Biographie (in German). Archived from the original on 30 November 2021. Retrieved 30 November 2021 .
^ "She Came from Mariupol" . Retrieved 30 November 2021 .
^ "Natascha Wodin | No Man's Land" . Archived from the original on 29 November 2021. Retrieved 30 November 2021 .
^ "Doppelportrait – "Den, den ich finden wollte, habe ich nie gefunden" " . Cicero Online (in German). 15 July 2009. Retrieved 30 November 2021 .
^ Böhmer, Otto A. (1 November 2014). "Wodin, Natascha: Alter, fremdes Land" . Wiener Zeitung (in German). Archived from the original on 30 November 2021. Retrieved 30 November 2021 .
^ Schütte, Uwe (1 April 2017). "Wahnsinn eines Jahrhunderts" . Wiener Zeitung (in German). Retrieved 30 November 2021 .
^ Schütte, Uwe (11 November 2018). "Tyrannei und Schweigen" . Wiener Zeitung (in German). Retrieved 30 November 2021 .
^ Wester, Christel (18 August 2021). "Porträt einer illegalen Emigrantin" . Deutschlandfunk (in German). Archived from the original on 29 November 2021. Retrieved 30 November 2021 .
^ Eßbach, Katja (29 September 2021). "Natascha Wodin: "Nastjas Tränen" – berührendes Porträt einer Kämpferin" . NDR.de (in German). Archived from the original on 30 November 2021. Retrieved 30 November 2021 .
^ "She Came from Mariupol" . Publishers Weekly . 1 April 2022. Archived from the original on 15 May 2022. Retrieved 15 May 2022 .
^ "Natascha Wodin – Autorenlexikon" . LiteraturPort (in German). 4 March 2009. Retrieved 30 November 2021 .
^ "Natascha Wodin erhält neuen Literaturpreis des Vereins Literaturhaus Nürnberg – 360 Grad evangelisch" . Sonntagsblatt (in German). Archived from the original on 30 November 2021. Retrieved 30 November 2021 .
^ "Joseph-Breitbach-Preis für Schriftstellerin Natascha Wodin" . Deutschlandfunk Kultur (in German). 5 May 2021. Archived from the original on 7 May 2022. Retrieved 7 May 2022 .
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