Michael Krüger (writer)

Michael Krüger was born in 1943 in Wittgendorf, Saxony, Germany.{{cite web | title = Michael Krüger | publisher = Internationales Literaturfestival Berlin | date = | url = http://www.literaturfestival.com/bios1_3_6_1052.html | accessdate = 29 September 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071025211416/http://www.literaturfestival.com/bios1_3_6_1052.html| archive-date= 25 October 2007}} He grew up in Berlin.

After completing secondary schooling, he was apprenticed to a publisher and later studied philosophy and literature.

From 1962 to 1965 Krüger worked as a bookseller in London.{{Cite web|url=https://www.suhrkamp.de/person/michael-krueger-p-2687|title=Michael Krüger auf suhrkamp.de|website=Suhrkamp Verlag}}

From 1968 he worked as an editor at the publishing house Carl Hanser Verlag, becoming director in 1986. He was also head of fiction publishing.

In 1972 he published his first poems, with his first collection, Reginapoly, appearing in 1976 and his first collection of stories Was tun: Eine altmodische Geschichte (What shall we do: An old-fashioned story) in 1984. Several stories, novels and translations followed.

Krüger's work has garnered many important accolades, including the 1986 Toucan Prize and the 1996 Prix Médicis étranger.{{cn|date=November 2024}}

Krüger wrote the introduction to the 2010 New York Review of Books edition of Jakov Lind's Soul of Wood.{{cn|date=November 2024}}

From 1975 he became a jury member of the European literary award Petrarca-Preis.{{cn|date=November 2024}}

He is also a juror for the Zbigniew Herbert International Literary Award.{{Cite web|url=https://culture.pl/en/article/five-years-of-the-zbigniew-herbert-award|title=Five Years of the Zbigniew Herbert Award|website=Culture.pl}}{{cite web |title=Laureate of the Zbigniew Herbert Literary Award 2017 |website=Fundacja Herberta |date=16 September 1939 |url=https://fundacjaherberta.com/en/the-herbert-prize/laureates/laureate-of-the-zbigniew-herbert-literary-award-2017/ |access-date=25 November 2024| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20240622230059/https://fundacjaherberta.com/en/the-herbert-prize/laureates/laureate-of-the-zbigniew-herbert-literary-award-2017/| archive-date = 22 June 2024|url-status=live}}

• {{cite book | last=Krüger | first=Michael | last2=Drawert | first2=Kurt | title=Archive des Zweifels : Gedichte aus drei Jahrzehnten | publisher=Suhrkamp | publication-place=Frankfurt am Main | date=2001 | isbn=3-518-39795-8 | oclc=50474040 | language=de}}
• {{cite book | last=Krüger | first=Michael |author-mask=2 | title=Kurz vor dem Gewitter : Gedichte | publisher=Suhrkamp | publication-place=Frankfurt am Main | date=2003 | isbn=3-518-41456-9 | oclc=52911248 | language=de}}
• {{cite book | last=Krüger | first=Michael |author-mask=2 | title=Die Turiner Komödie Bericht eines Nachlaßverwalters ; Roman| date=2007 | isbn=978-3-518-45876-1 | oclc=180151476 | language=de}}
• {{cite book | last=Krüger | first=Michael |author-mask=2 | title=Unter freiem Himmel : Gedichte | publisher=Suhrkamp | publication-place=Frankfurt am Main | date=2007 | isbn=978-3-518-41912-0 | oclc=173071346 | language=de}}
• {{cite book | last=Krüger | first=Michael |author-mask=2 | title=Reden und Einwürfe : Gedichte | publisher=Insel | publication-place=Frankfurt am Main | date=2008 | isbn=978-3-458-19309-8 | oclc=262889460 | language=de}}
• {{cite book | last=Krüger | first=Michael |author-mask=2 | title=Ins Reine : Gedichte | publisher=Suhrkamp | publication-place=Berlin | date=2010 | isbn=978-3-518-42168-0 | oclc=657596926 | language=de}}
• {{cite book | last=Krüger | first=Michael |author-mask=2 | title=Umstellung der Zeit : Gedichte | date=2013 | isbn=978-3-518-42394-3 | oclc=856902497 | language=de}}
• {{cite book | last=Krüger | first=Michael |author-mask=2 | title="Hellwach gehe ich schlafen" hundert Gedichte | date=2016 | isbn=978-3-518-46722-0 | oclc=962180677 | language=de}}
• {{cite book | last=Krüger | first=Michael |author-mask=2 | publisher=Suhrkamp Verlag | title=Das falsche Haus eine Novelle | publication-place=Berlin | date=2017 | isbn=978-3-518-24070-0 | oclc=994229551 | language=de}}
• {{cite book | last=Krüger | first=Michael |author-mask=2 | title=Einmal einfach : Gedichte | date=2018 | isbn=978-3-518-42798-9 | oclc=1020069897 | language=de}}
• {{cite book | last=Krüger | first=Michael |author-mask=2 | title=Im Wald, im Holzhaus : Gedichte | date=2021 | isbn=978-3-518-43005-7 | oclc=1264649566 | language=de}}
• {{cite book | last=Morselli | first=Guido | last2=Gschwend | first2=Ragni Maria | last3=Krüger | first3=Michael |author-mask3=2 | publisher=Suhrkamp Verlag | title=Dissipatio humani generis oder Die Einsamkeit Roman | publication-place=Berlin | date=2021 | isbn=978-3-518-22529-5 | oclc=1265001212 | language=de}}
• {{cite book | last=Krüger | first=Michael |author-mask=2 | title=Im Wald, im Holzhaus : Gedichte | date=2021 | isbn=978-3-518-43005-7 | oclc=1264649566 | language=de}}
• {{cite book | last=Krüger | first=Michael |author-mask=2 | title=Was in den zwei Wochen nach der Rückkehr aus Paris geschah : eine Erzählung | date=2022 | isbn=978-3-518-47230-9 | oclc=1304455326 | language=de}}

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• [https://www.wnyc.org/story/55432-german-poet-novelist-and-publisher-michael-kruger/ German Poet, Novelist, and Publisher Michael Kruger] (audio, interview, The Leonard Lopate Show, 2008)
• {{cite web |last=Rutten |first=Tim |title=Between the lines of a writer's life |website=Los Angeles Times |date=6 February 2008 |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-feb-06-et-rutten6-story.html}} (Review of The Executor)
• {{in lang|de}} [https://www.lyrikline.org/en/authors/michael-krueger Michael Krüger: Poems] at Lyrikline.org

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