Heike Geissler (born 5 April 1977) is a German author. She is a recipient of the

Alfred Döblin Prize The Alfred Döblin Prize (german: Alfred-Döblin-Preis) is a German literary award. Named after Alfred Döblin, it was endowed by Günter Grass in 1979. The prize is awarded every two years jointly by the Academy of Arts, Berlin and the Literary C ...

Life

Heike Geissler was born in

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, on 5 April 1977. She grew up in

and

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. In 2001, she received the Alfred Döblin Prize for her novel ''Rosa'', which was published the following year. Her novel ''Saisonarbeit'' (2014) was published as ''Seasonal Associate'' by

Semiotext(e) Semiotext(e) is an independent publisher of critical theory, fiction, philosophy, art criticism, activist texts and non-fiction. History Founded in 1974, ''Semiotext(e)'' began as a journal that emerged from a semiotics reading group led by Sylv ...

in English translation by

Katy Derbyshire Katy Derbyshire is a British-born, Berlin-based translator and writer. Among the authors she has translated are: Clemens Meyer, Christa Wolf, Inka Parei, Helene Hegemann, Simon Urban, Rusalka Reh, Yangzom Brauen, Tilman Rammstedt, Francis Nenik, a ...

in 2018 to critical acclaim. She lives in

Leipzig Leipzig ( , ; Upper Saxon: ) is the most populous city in the German state of Saxony. Leipzig's population of 605,407 inhabitants (1.1 million in the larger urban zone) as of 2021 places the city as Germany's eighth most populous, as wel ...

Awards

*2001, Alfred Döblin Prize

Publications

* ''Rosa. Roman''. Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Stuttgart/München 2002, . * ''Nichts, was tragisch wäre''. Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, München 2007, . * ''Emma und Pferd Beere''. With illustrations by Simone Waßermann, Lubok Verlag, Leipzig 2009, . * ''Saisonarbeit''. Spector Books, Leipzig 2014, . ** English-language translation: ''Seasonal Associate''. Translated Katy Derbyshire. Semiotext(e), New York 2018, . *

References

External links

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Author homepageProfile of Heike Geißler, Deutschlandradio KulturReview of ''Seasonal Associate'' (Saisonarbeit) in the New Yorker (19 November 2018)
{{DEFAULTSORT:Geissler, Heike 1977 births Living people People from Riesa People from Bezirk Dresden 21st-century German writers 21st-century German women writers Writers from Saxony