Julia Franck

Julia Franck, a twin,{{cite web | last=Clary | first=Elisalex | title=Auf den Spuren der Mütter | website=Die Welt | date=16 November 2011 | url=https://www.welt.de/welt_print/article1452825/Auf-den-Spuren-der-Muetter.html | language=de | access-date=2 December 2022}} is the daughter of the actress Anna Katharina Franck and of the television producer Jürgen Sehmisch.{{cite web | last=Lieder | first=Marianna | title=Julia Franck: Chronik einer Jugend zwischen Ost und West | website=Die Welt | date=13 October 2021 | url=https://www.welt.de/kultur/literarischewelt/article233942064/Julia-Franck-Chronik-einer-Jugend-zwischen-Ost-und-West.html | language=de | access-date=2 December 2022}}

In 1978 the family moved to West Berlin where they spent nine months in a refugee camp.{{cite web | title=Julia Franck – PEN Zentrum deutschsprachiger Autoren im Ausland | website=Exil Pen, PEN Zentrum deutschsprachiger Autoren im Ausland | date=11 June 2021 | url=https://exilpen.org/franck/ | language=de | access-date=2 December 2022}} She grew up in Schleswig-Holstein.{{cite web | last=Hajasch | first=Frank | title=Julia Franck bei "Der Norden liest" im Literaturhaus Kiel | website=NDR.de | date=28 October 2021 | url=https://www.ndr.de/kultur/buch/Julia-Franck-bei-Der-Norden-liest-im-Literaturhaus-Kiel,juliafranck112.html | language=de | access-date=2 December 2022}} Franck studied German Literature and American Studies at the Free University of Berlin and spent some time in the United States, Mexico and Guatemala.{{cite web | title=Julia Franck | website=The Modern Novel | url=https://www.themodernnovel.org/europe/w-europe/germany/franck/ | access-date=2 December 2022}} She worked as an editor for Sender Freies Berlin and contributed to various newspapers and magazines.{{cite web | title=Julia Franck | website=internationales literaturfestival berlin | date=13 May 2022 | url=https://literaturfestival.com/authors/julia-franck/ | language=de | access-date=2 December 2022}} She lives with her children in Berlin.

Franck is the author of five novels and one short story collection, and the editor of a collection of essays. Her three most recent novels, {{ill|Lagerfeuer (novel)|lt=Lagerfeuer|de|Lagerfeuer (Roman)}},{{cite web | title=Kühle Lagerstimmung | website=Deutschlandfunk | date=29 October 2003 | url=https://www.deutschlandfunk.de/kuehle-lagerstimmung-100.html | language=de | access-date=2 December 2022}} {{ill|Die Mittagsfrau|de}},{{cite web | title=Kurz und Bündig – Julia Franck: Die Mittagsfrau | website=Cicero Online | date=20 July 2009 | url=https://www.cicero.de/kultur/julia-franck-die-mittagsfrau/43868 | language=de | access-date=2 December 2022}} and Rücken an Rücken,{{cite web | last=Schwarz | first=André | title=Wirres Sammelsurium | website=Über Julia Francks Roman "Rücken an Rücken" : literaturkritik.de | url=https://literaturkritik.de/id/16410 | language=de | access-date=2 December 2022}} as well as the collection Grenzübergänge, engage explicitly with twentieth-century German history. Lagerfeuer is set in the West Berlin refugee camp Berlin-Marienfelde in the 1970s and follows four main characters, one of whom, Nelly Senff, has fled East Berlin with her two young children. Rücken an Rücken is also set during the years of Germany's division, ending in the early 1960s,{{cite news | last=Lovenberg | first=Felicitas von | title=Julia Franck: Rücken an Rücken: Hänsel und Gretel in der DDR | website=FAZ.NET | date=1 January 1970 | url=https://www.faz.net/aktuell/feuilleton/buecher/rezensionen/belletristik/julia-franck-ruecken-an-ruecken-haensel-und-gretel-in-der-ddr-11500690.html | language=de | access-date=2 December 2022}} and Die Mittagsfrau spans from World War I to divided Germany of the 1950s.

Although Franck has not described herself as a feminist author, feminist scholars have noted her presentation of women's experience of history, power structures, sexuality, and relationships (such as motherhood).{{Cite book|title = Playing House: Motherhood, Intimacy, and Domestic Spaces in Julia Franck's Fiction|last = Hill|first = Alexandra|publisher = Peter Lang}}

Franck's books have been translated into over 35 languages.{{cite web | title=Julia Franck – Badenweiler Literaturtage | website=Badenweiler Literaturtage – Gastgeber Rüdiger Safranski | url=https://www.badenweiler-literaturtage.de/autoren/julia-franck/ | language=de | access-date=2 December 2022}}{{cite web | title=Julia Franck: Die Mittagsfrau und ihre Übersetzer | website=RP Online | date=1 July 2008 | url=https://rp-online.de/kultur/buch/die-mittagsfrau-und-ihre-uebersetzer_aid-8820915 | language=de | access-date=2 December 2022}}

Franck is the granddaughter of sculptor Ingeborg Hunzinger (1915–2009) and a great great granddaughter of the artist and illustrator Philipp Franck (1860–1944).{{cite web|url=http://jewishquarterly.org/2010/07/on-the-track-of-family-history/|title=On the Track of Family History|date=23 July 2013|publisher=Jewish Quarterly|author=Julia Franck|access-date=2 October 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171003175243/http://jewishquarterly.org/2010/07/on-the-track-of-family-history/|archive-date=3 October 2017|url-status=dead}}

• 1995 Open Mike prize of the Literaturwerkstatt Berlin
• 1998 Alfred-Döblin-Stipendium of the Akademie der Künste
• 2000 3sat award of the Ingeborg Bachmann competition
• 2004 Marie Luise Kaschnitz Prize
• 2005 Roswitha Prize of the city of Bad Gandersheim
• 2007 German Book Prize
• 2010 short list for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize for Blind Side of the Heart{{Cite web|title = Shortlist for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize 2010 revealed – RobAroundBooks|url = http://robaroundbooks.com/2010/04/shortlist-for-the-independent-foreign-fiction-prize-2010-revealed/|website = RobAroundBooks|access-date = 23 October 2015|language = en|archive-date = 3 March 2016|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20160303173936/http://robaroundbooks.com/2010/04/shortlist-for-the-independent-foreign-fiction-prize-2010-revealed/|url-status = dead}}
• 2010 short list for the Wingate Literary Prize for the Jewish Quarterly
• 2022 Schiller Memorial Prize{{cite web | title=Julia Franck erhält Schiller-Gedächtnis-Preis 2022 | website=Baden-Württemberg.de | date=13 October 2022 | url=https://www.baden-wuerttemberg.de/de/service/presse/pressemitteilung/pid/julia-franck-erhaelt-schiller-gedaechtnis-preis-2022/ | language=de | access-date=13 October 2022}}

• 2022 {{ill|PEN Berlin|de}}{{cite web | title=Mitglieder | website=penberlin.de | url=https://penberlin.de/mitglieder/ | language=de | access-date=2 December 2022}}

• {{cite book | last=Franck | first=Julia | title=Liebediener : Roman | publisher=Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag | publication-place=München | date=2001 | isbn=3-423-12904-2 | oclc=63518768 | language=de}}
• {{cite book | last=Franck | first=Julia |author-mask=2 | title=Bauchlandung : Geschichten zum Anfassen | publisher=DuMont | publication-place=Köln | date=2000 | isbn=3-7701-5365-0 | oclc=45304729 | language=de}}
• {{cite book | last=Franck | first=Julia |author-mask=2 | title=Lagerfeuer : Roman | publisher=Deutscher Taschenbuch | publication-place=München | date=2005 | isbn=3-423-13303-1 | oclc=184954219 | language=de}}
• {{cite book | last=Franck | first=Julia |author-mask=2 | title=Mir nichts, dir nichts | publisher=DuMont | publication-place=Köln | date=2006 | isbn=978-3-8321-7969-4 | oclc=77562392 | language=de}}
• {{cite book | last=Franck | first=Julia |author-mask=2 | title=Die Mittagsfrau : Roman | publisher=S. Fischer | publication-place=Frankfurt am Main | date=2007 | isbn=978-3-10-022600-6 | oclc=173070893 | language=de}}{{cite web | title=Julia Franck: "Die Mittagsfrau" - 07.10.2018 | website=DW.COM | url=https://www.dw.com/de/julia-franck-die-mittagsfrau/a-43775681 | language=de | access-date=2 December 2022}}
• {{cite book | last=Franck | first=Julia |author-mask=2 | title=Grenzübergänge : Autoren aus Ost und West erinnern sich | publication-place=Frankfurt am Main | date=2009 | isbn=978-3-10-022604-4 | oclc=317504386 | language=de}}
• {{cite book | last=Franck | first=Julia |author-mask=2 | title=Rücken an Rücken Roman | publication-place=Frankfurt, M | date=2011 | isbn=978-3-10-022605-1 | oclc=734095432 | language=de}}
• {{cite book | last1=Franck | first1=Julia |author-mask=2 | last2=Blomberg | first2=Katja | publisher=Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König | title=Blaues Licht Fragmente einer erhofften Begegnung = Blue light | publication-place=Köln | date=2017 | isbn=978-3-96098-099-5 | oclc=981918644 | language=de}}
• {{cite book | last=Franck | first=Julia |author-mask=2 | publisher=S. Fischer Verlag GmbH | title=Welten auseinander | publication-place=Frankfurt am Main | date=2021 | isbn=978-3-10-002438-1 | oclc=1248721437 | language=de}}

• {{cite book | last1=Franck | first1=Julia | last2=Bell | first2=Anthea |author-link2=Anthea Bell | title=The blind side of the heart | publisher=Harvill Secker | publication-place=London [England] | date=2009 | isbn=978-1-84655-212-0 | oclc=310157526}}
• {{cite book | last1=Franck | first1=Julia |author-mask=2 | last2=Bell | first2=Anthea |author-link2=Anthea Bell | title=The blindness of the heart | publisher=Grove Press | publication-place=New York | date=2009 | isbn=978-0-8021-1967-4 | oclc=587153851}}
• {{cite book | last1=Franck | first1=Julia |author-mask=2 | last2=Bell | first2=Anthea |author-link2=Anthea Bell | title=Back to back | publication-place=New York | date=2013 | isbn=978-0-8021-2167-7 | oclc=862463363}}
• {{cite book | last1=Franck | first1=Julia |author-mask=2 | last2=Bell | first2=Anthea |author-link2=Anthea Bell | title=West | publication-place=London | date=2015 | isbn=978-0-09-955432-5 | oclc=951147491}}

• {{cite book | last1=Solnit | first1=Rebecca | last2=Franck | first2=Julia | title=Aus der nahen Ferne | publication-place=Hamburg | date=2014 | isbn=978-3-455-50324-1 | oclc=867153725 | language=de}}

• West ({{langx|de|link=no|Westen}}, director: Christian Schwochow), a 2013 German film adaptation of the novel Lagerfeuer.{{cite web | last=Kermode | first=Mark | title=West review – taut cold-war drama | website=The Guardian | date=14 June 2015 | url=http://www.theguardian.com/film/2015/jun/14/west-review-berlin-east-germany-christian-schwochow-julia-franck | access-date=2 December 2022}}{{cite web | title=Westen | website=filmportal.de | url=https://www.filmportal.de/en/movie/westen_ | access-date=2 December 2022}}

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