Dorothea Dieckmann
{{short description|German writer}}
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| birth_place = Freiburg
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Biography
Dorothea Dieckmann was born in Freiburg in 1957. She has lived in Hamburg, Cologne, Rome, Tübingen, and Stuttgart. Prior to becoming a full-time writer Diechmann worked as a high school teacher.
Her novel Guantanamo was her first to be translated into English.
When Tim Mohr translated the novel into English, he won the Best Translated Book Award.
Awards and honours
She is a recipient of the 1990 Literature Prize of the City of Hamburg. In 1997, she received the Künstlerhaus Schloss Wiepersdorf scholarship. In 1998, she received the Marburger Literaturpreis. In 2004, she received a scholarship from Ledig House. In 2009, she was chosen to be Dresden's writer in residence.
References
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{{cite news
| url = https://www.theguardian.com/books/2008/jun/21/saturdayreviewsfeatres.guardianreview4
| title = Scenes from an execution
| publisher = The Guardian (UK)
| author = Michel Faber
| date = 2008-06-21
| archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20150417173719/http://www.theguardian.com/books/2008/jun/21/saturdayreviewsfeatres.guardianreview4
| archivedate = 2015-04-17
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| quote = Dieckmann is an essayist and critic of high standing in Germany, and has also written prize-winning fiction which has not yet been translated into English. No surprise there: a mere 3% of books published in English are translations and most of those are non-literary enterprises. Guantánamo has just won the aptly named Three Percent prize for translated foreign fiction, thanks to the midwifery of Soft Skull Press, a small New York publishing house specialising in controversial subjects, and Tim Mohr, staff editor at Playboy magazine.
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{{cite news
| url = http://www.sz-online.de/nachrichten/hamburgerin-wird-neue-stadtschreiberin-1958717.html
| title = Hamburgerin wird neue Stadtschreiberin
| publisher = Sächsische Zeitung
| date = 2009-05-03
| language = German
|trans-title=Hamburg is new city clerk
| accessdate = 2015-04-17
| quote = Die Hamburger Schriftstellerin und Kritikerin Dorothea Dieckmann wird neue Stadtschreiberin in Dresden. Die 51-Jährige wurde von einer Jury unter 73 Bewerbern ausgewählt.
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{{cite news
| url = http://www.publishersweekly.com/978-1-933368-54-2
| title = Guantanamo
| publisher = Publishers Weekly
| date = 2007
| archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20150417133555/http://www.publishersweekly.com/978-1-933368-54-2
| archivedate = 2015-04-17
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External links
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20160308220543/https://portal.dnb.de/opac.htm?method=simpleSearch&query=12014171X Works by or about Dorothea Dieckmann] in the catalog of the German National Library
- [http://www.perlentaucher.de/autor/9326.html Short biography and reviews of works] by Dorothea Dieckmann at perlentaucher.de
- http://www.digitab.de/home/vita/dodivi_0.htm
- http://bachmannpreis.orf.at/bachmannpreis/texte/stories/14244/
- http://www.single-generation.de/kohorten/dorothea_dieckmann.htm
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Category:German women novelists
Category:Writers from Freiburg im Breisgau
Category:20th-century German novelists
Category:20th-century German women writers
Category:21st-century German novelists
Category:21st-century German women writers
Category:German women essayists
Category:20th-century German essayists
Category:21st-century German non-fiction writers
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