Anne Duden (born 1942) is a German writer who moved with her family to

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in 1954. Her poetry and prose cover experiences involving violence, pain and despair. A member of the

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, she has been a guest professor at the

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and has lectured on poetry in

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and Zurich. Her many awards include the

Heinrich-Böll-Preis The Heinrich-Böll-Preis is a literary prize of Germany, awarded by the City of Cologne in memory of Nobel Prize winner Heinrich Böll. The prize money is €30,000. The prize is awarded "for outstanding achievements – even by still unknown au ...

in 2003.

Biography

Borb on 1 January 1942, Anna Duden was raised in

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and then in

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. In 1953, she escaped to West Germany with her mother and two siblings. She graduated from high school in Oldenburg and went of to study German at the

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Career

In 1972, Duden was employed by the Verlag Klaus Wagenbach publishing house in Berlin. The following year, together with some of her colleagues, she founded the Rotbuch Verlag where she worked for a number of years. From 1978, she was a freelance writer in London and Berlin. In addition to her poetry books, she published articles and essays in journals and anthologies. Duden has been a guest professor for literature at the

(1989) and has lectured on poetry at the

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(1995) and the

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(1996). Her reputation as an innovative writer began with the publication of her collection of stories ''Übergang'' (1985) and was followed in 1985 by her novel ''Das Jadasschaf'' depicting the anguish aroused by recent German history. She extends her visions of horror and lament in the poetry of ''Steinschlag'' (1993) and ''Hingegend'' (1999). Anne Duden is a member of the

Deutsche Akademie für Sprache und Dichtung The Deutsche Akademie für Sprache und Dichtung (in English German Academy for Language and Literature) was founded on 28 August 1949, on the 200th birthday of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, in the Paulskirche in Frankfurt. It is seated in Darmstadt, ...

(German Academy for Language and Literature) and a corresponding member of the

Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur The Academy of Sciences and Literature (german: Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur Mainz, AdW Mainz) is a scientific academy in Mainz, Germany. It was established in 1949 on an initiative of Alfred Döblin. The academy's goal is to su ...

(Academy of Sciences and Literature) in

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