Marica Bodrožić (born 1973) is a German writer of
Croatian
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descent. She was born in in
Cista Provo, Croatia in the former
Yugoslavia. She moved to Germany as a child and currently lives in
Berlin.
Bodrožić writes primarily in the
German language
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She is fluent in multiple genres, including essays, novels, poems, and stories.
She has worked as a literary translator and a teacher of creative writing. One of her best known works is the novel ''Kirschholz und alte Gefühle'' (''A Cherrywood Table'') which received the
EU Prize for Literature
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The novel has been translated into Italian by Stefano Zangrando for Mimesis (2017).
In 2017, Marica Bodrožić signed the
Declaration on the Common Language of the
Croats,
Serbs,
Bosniaks
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Montenegrins.
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Awards
Bodrožić's awards include:
* 2013
Kranichsteiner Literaturpreis
* 2015
European Union Prize for Literature
* 2015
Literaturpreis der Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung
Literaturpreis der Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung is a literary prize of Germany. The prize money is €20,000 and the prize ceremony takes place in Weimar. The first winner was Sarah Kirsch. The prize is awarded "to authors who give freedom their word ...
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* 2022 , Dresden
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PEN Centre Germany
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1973 births
Living people
Croatian women writers
20th-century German women writers
20th-century Croatian women writers
21st-century German women writers
21st-century Croatian women writers
20th-century German writers
20th-century Croatian writers
21st-century German writers
21st-century Croatian writers
Signatories of the Declaration on the Common Language