María Cecilia Barbetta (born 8 July 1972 in Buenos Aires) is a German-language writer. Since 2011 she is a member of the
PEN Centre Germany
PEN Centre Germany is part of the worldwide association of writers founded in London in 1921, now known as PEN International. One of over 140 autonomous PEN centres around the world, PEN Centre Germany is based in Darmstadt, Hesse.
Work
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. In 2008, she won the
Aspekte-Literaturpreis.
Life
Barbetta studied German as a foreign language in her native Argentina. She came to Berlin in 1996 with a
DAAD scholarship.
After completing her doctorate at the
Free University of Berlin
The Free University of Berlin (, often abbreviated as FU Berlin or simply FU) is a public research university in Berlin, Germany. It is consistently ranked among Germany's best universities, with particular strengths in political science and t ...
in 2000, she has been a freelance author (since 2005). In 2007 she was awarded the
Alfred Döblin Fellowship by the
Academy of Arts, Berlin,
and participated in the author's workshop Prosa of the Literary Colloquium in Berlin. ''Los Milagros Tailor's Shop'' was her first novel. She spent the year 2013 at
Villa Massimo in Rome.
In 2014 she received scholarships from the
Berlin Senate and the German Literature Fund Darmstadt.
She writes in German and has lived in Berlin since 1996.
Awards
* 2008
Aspekte-Literaturpreis
* 2009
Adelbert von Chamisso-Förderpreis
* 2017
Alfred Döblin Prize
Memberships
* 2011
PEN Centre Germany
PEN Centre Germany is part of the worldwide association of writers founded in London in 1921, now known as PEN International. One of over 140 autonomous PEN centres around the world, PEN Centre Germany is based in Darmstadt, Hesse.
Work
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Works
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References
External links
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category:1972 births
Living people
Writers from Buenos Aires
Argentine emigrants to Germany
German women novelists
21st-century German novelists
21st-century German women writers
Writers from Berlin