Angelika Overath

{{Short description|German author and journalist}}

File:Angelika Overath at Frankfurt Book Fair 2018 (1).jpg 2018]]

Angelika Overath (born 17 July 1957 in Karlsruhe) is a German author and journalist.{{Cite web|title=German News | Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages and Linguistics|url=https://www.mmll.cam.ac.uk/german/news/overath1.pdf|access-date=2022-08-24|website=www.mmll.cam.ac.uk}}

Overath studied German literature, history, Italian Studies, and cultural studies at the University of Tübingen and wrote a PhD-thesis in 1986 about the colour blue in modern literature.

She regularly works as Writer in Residence for the [https://web.archive.org/web/20090428224628/http://www.ncl.ac.uk/sml/german/ German Section] in the [http://ncl.ac.uk/sml/ School of Modern Languages], Newcastle University,German Writer in Residence Dr. Angelika Overath at Newcastle University. [http://www.ncl.ac.uk/sml/german/documents/berichtmme.pdf pdf-file, 0.2 MB] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110617074841/http://www.ncl.ac.uk/sml/german/documents/berichtmme.pdf |date=June 17, 2011 }}, retrieved on November 20, 2010. and at Queen Mary's College, London. She also teaches creative writing for the Swiss [http://hyperwerk.ch/ Hyperwerk] and has founded the [https://schreibschule-sent.ch/ Schreibschule Sent] which offers seminars in creative writing both in German and Rumantsch.

Prizes

  • 1996 Egon-Erwin-Kisch Prize for literary reportage
  • 2002/2003 One-year scholarship of the Deutscher Literaturfonds, Darmstadt
  • 2005 Thaddäus-Troll Prize
  • 2006 Ernst-Willner-Prize at the Ingeborg-Bachmann-Competition{{Cite web|title=Bachmann Prize 2006 | Bachmannpreis.eu|url=http://archiv.bachmannpreis.orf.at/bachmannpreis.eu/en/archiv/362/|access-date=2022-08-24|website=archiv.bachmannpreis.orf.at}}
  • 2007/2008 Writer in Residence at Queen Mary and Westfield College London {{Cite web|title=SLLF – School of Languages, Linguistics and Film – School of Languages, Linguistics and Film|url=https://www.qmul.ac.uk/sllf/|access-date=2022-08-24|website=www.qmul.ac.uk}}
  • 2008 Swiss prize for independent journalism
  • 2009 Longlist for the German Book Prize by the Börsenverein Deutscher Buchhandel[http://www.frankfurt-book-fair.com/en/fbf/news-media/newsletter/issue_september/01513/ German Book Prize 2009] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110711022944/http://www.frankfurt-book-fair.com/en/fbf/news-media/newsletter/issue_september/01513/ |date=2011-07-11 }} at Frankfurt Book Fair Newsletter, Issue September 2009, retrieved on November 19, 2010.
  • 2009 Shortlist for the Swiss Book Prize
  • 2023 Longlist German Book Prize

Books

  • Das andere Blau, Zur Poetik einer Farbe im modernen Gedicht. (1987) Stuttgart: Metzler.
  • Händler der verlorenen Farben. (1998) Lengwil: Libelle.
  • Vom Sekundenglück brennender Papierchen. (2000) Lengwil: Libelle.
  • Schlimme Ehen. Ein Hochzeitsbuch, aus vielen Quellen zusammengetragen. together with Manfred Koch. (2000) Frankfurt: Eichborn.
  • Spatzenweisheit. together with Horst Munzig. (2001) Freiburg: Herder.
  • Mussenpraat. Dutch translation by Annette van Schoonhoven. (2003) Amsterdam: Palet Gifts. {{ISBN|978-90-427-0026-0}}.
  • Schlaflos: das Buch der hellen Nächte. together with Manfred Koch. (2002) Lengwil: Libelle.
  • Die Kunst des Einfachen. together with Manfred Koch. (2000) Freiburg: Herder.
  • Toleranz. together with Navid Kermani and Robert Schindel. (2003) Göttingen: Wallstein.
  • Das halbe Brot der Vögel. (2004) Göttingen: Wallstein.
  • Generationen-Bilder. (2005) Lengwil: Libelle.
  • Nahe Tage. novel (2005) Göttingen: Wallstein. / (2008) Munich: dtv.
  • Genies und ihre Geheimnisse. 100 biographische Rätsel. together with Manfred Koch and Silvia Overath (2007) Berlin: List.
  • Hunde mitzubringen ist erlaubt: Ein literarischer Salon. together with Manfred Koch. (2008) Berlin: List.
  • Genies und ihre Geheimnisse, Band 2. 100 neue biographische Rätsel. together with Manfred Koch and Silvia Overath. (2009) Berlin: List.
  • Flughafenfische. novel. (2009) Munich: Luchterhand.
  • Short [http://www.ncl.ac.uk/sml/german/documents/Newsletter-0905.pdf interview]{{dead link|date=October 2016 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} with the author about the genesis of the book and the difficulties translating her.
  • Alle Farben des Schnees. Senter Tagebuch. (2010) Munich: Luchterhand.
  • English review in [https://web.archive.org/web/20110928051516/http://www.new-books-in-german.com/english/839/298/298/129002/design1.html New Books in German]
  • Rumantsch and German [http://www.rtr.ch/home/utensils/players/video.133b558e-ed53-496a-b061-b07e47fdc6f3.html Interview] in Televisiun Rumantscha
  • Sie dreht sich um. Munich: Luchterhand 2014, {{ISBN|978-3-630-87349-7}} [Excerpt http://www.randomhouse.de/leseprobe/Sie-dreht-sich-um-Roman/leseprobe_9783630873497.pdf], dedicated to Henrike Lähnemann
  • Ein Winter in Istanbul. Munich: Luchterhand 2018, translation of a [https://fortnightlyreview.co.uk/2021/12/ein-winter-istanbul/ short extract] in the Fortnightly Review
  • File:Overath2014-Poesias.jpgSo träume und verschwinde ich. Liebesgedichte von Edip Cansever, Cemal Süreya und Turgut Uyar. Türkisch-Deutsch, herausgegeben und übersetzt zusammen mit Nursel Gülenaz, btb München 2021, {{ISBN|978-3-44271757}}.
  • Krautwelten. Insel Bücherei 1504, Suhrkamp 2021, {{ISBN|978-3-458-19504-7}}.
  • Schwarzhandel mit dem Himmel/ Marchà nair cul azur. Gedichte Deutsch/Vallader. Telegramme Verlag, Zürich 2022, {{ISBN|978-3-907198-58-2}}.
  • Unschärfen der Liebe. Luchterhand, München 2023, {{ISBN|978-3-630-87634-4}}
  • Engadinerinnen. Frauenleben in einem hohen Tal. Limmat Verlag, Zürich 2024, ISBN 978-3-03926-067-6

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