Mirko Bonné (born 9 June 1965) is a German writer and translator. Bonné was born in

Tegernsee Tegernsee is a town in the Miesbach district of Bavaria, Germany. It is located on the shore of Lake Tegernsee, which is 747 m (2,451 ft) above sea level. A spa town, it is surrounded by an alpine landscape of Upper Bavaria, and has an e ...

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. In 1975 his family moved to

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, where he attended the Hansa Gymnasium. He graduated from the Otto Hahn Gymnasium in

Geesthacht Geesthacht () is the largest city in the District of the Duchy of Lauenburg (Herzogtum Lauenburg) in Schleswig-Holstein in Northern Germany, south-east of Hamburg on the right bank of the River Elbe. History A church was built in what is today ...

in 1986 and worked as a bookshop assistant, taxi driver and nurse. His writing career began in the early 1990s with journalism, moving on to lyric poetry and translations. In his poetry, influenced by

Keats John Keats (31 October 1795 – 23 February 1821) was an English poet of the second generation of Romantic poets, with Lord Byron and Percy Bysshe Shelley. His poems had been in publication for less than four years when he died of tuberculos ...

, Trakl and

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, he treats the themes of landscape, life, and memory, while his prose, which includes novels about

Shackleton Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton (15 February 1874 – 5 January 1922) was an Anglo-Irish Antarctic explorer who led three British expeditions to the Antarctic. He was one of the principal figures of the period known as the Heroic Age of An ...

and

Camus Albert Camus ( , ; ; 7 November 1913 – 4 January 1960) was a French philosopher, author, dramatist, and journalist. He was awarded the 1957 Nobel Prize in Literature at the age of 44, the second-youngest recipient in history. His works ...

, concerns itself with the mechanisms of oppression. He has published travel writing about South America, Russia, China, the United States, Iran, and Antarctica, and translated

Anderson Anderson or Andersson may refer to: Companies * Anderson (Carriage), a company that manufactured automobiles from 1907 to 1910 * Anderson Electric, an early 20th-century electric car * Anderson Greenwood, an industrial manufacturer * Anderson Ra ...

, Dickinson,

, Cummings, Creeley,

Yeats William Butler Yeats (13 June 186528 January 1939) was an Irish poet, dramatist, writer and one of the foremost figures of 20th-century literature. He was a driving force behind the Irish Literary Revival and became a pillar of the Irish litera ...

, and

Gherasim Luca Gherasim Luca (; 23 July 1913 – 9 February 1994) was a Romanian surrealist theorist and poet. Born Salman Locker in Romania and also known as Costea Sar, and Petre Malcoci, he became an apatrid after leaving Romania in 1952. Biography Born ...

. He is a member of PEN Germany and lives in

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Original works

* ''Roberta von Ampel''. Radio play, Radio Bremen 1992 * ''Langrenus''. Gedichte. Rospo, Hamburg 1994, . * ''Gelenkiges Geschöpf''. Poems. Rospo, Hamburg 1996, . * ''Der junge Fordt''. Novel. DuMont, Köln 1999, . * ''Ein langsamer Sturz''. Novel. DuMont, Köln 2002, . * ''Hibiskus Code''. Poems. DuMont, Köln 2003, . * ''Der eiskalte Himmel''. Novel. Schöffling, Frankfurt am Main 2006, . * ''Die Republik der Silberfische''. Poems. Schöffling, Frankfurt am Main 2008, . * ''Wie wir verschwinden''. Novel. Schöffling, Frankfurt am Main 2009, . * ''Ausflug mit dem Zerberus''. Schöffling, Frankfurt am Main 2010, . * ''Der Eichelhäher''. Short story. Literatur-Quickie, Hamburg 2010, .

Translations

John Keats John Keats (31 October 1795 – 23 February 1821) was an English poet of the second generation of Romantic poets, with Lord Byron and Percy Bysshe Shelley. His poems had been in publication for less than four years when he died of tuberculo ...

: ''Werke und Briefe''. Phillip Reclam jun., Stuttgart 1995. *

E. E. Cummings Edward Estlin Cummings, who was also known as E. E. Cummings, e. e. cummings and e e cummings (October 14, 1894 - September 3, 1962), was an American poet, painter, essayist, author and playwright. He wrote approximately 2,900 poems, two autobi ...

: ''39 Alphabetisch. Gedichte''. Urs Engeler Editor, Weil am Rhein 2001. * Terry McDonagh: ''Kiltimagh. Ausgewählte Gedichte''. Blaupause Books, Hamburg 2001. *

Ghérasim Luca Gherasim Luca (; 23 July 1913 – 9 February 1994) was a Romanian surrealist theorist and poet. Born Salman Locker in Romania and also known as Costea Sar, and Petre Malcoci, he became an apatrid after leaving Romania in 1952. Biography Born ...

: ''Das Körperecho. Gedichte''. Urs Engeler Editor, Weil am Rhein 2004. *

William Butler Yeats William Butler Yeats (13 June 186528 January 1939) was an Irish poet, dramatist, writer and one of the foremost figures of 20th-century literature. He was a driving force behind the Irish Literary Revival and became a pillar of the Irish liter ...

: ''Die Gedichte'' (mit M. Beyer, G. Falkner, N. Hummelt (Hrsg.), C. Schuenke). Luchterhand, München 2005. *

Samuel Beckett Samuel Barclay Beckett (; 13 April 1906 – 22 December 1989) was an Irish novelist, dramatist, short story writer, theatre director, poet, and literary translator. His literary and theatrical work features bleak, impersonal and tragicomic expe ...

: ''Six Poèmes / Sechs Gedichte''. Wolfenbütteler Übersetzergespräche, Wolfenbüttel 2006. *

Robert Creeley Robert White Creeley (May 21, 1926 – March 30, 2005) was an American poet and author of more than sixty books. He is usually associated with the Black Mountain poets, though his verse aesthetic diverged from that school. He was close with Char ...

: ''Alles, was es für immer bedeutet. Gedichte''. Jung und Jung, Salzburg und Wien 2006. *

Rutger Kopland Rutger Kopland (born Rudi van den Hoofdakker) (4 August 1934, Goor – 11 July 2012, Glimmen) was a Dutch poet who gained great popularity for his "accessible, thoughtful style, his mild irony, his sentimentality" and whose collections sold over 2 ...

: ''Dank sei den Dingen. Ausgewählte Gedichte 1966 – 2006'' (mit Hendrik Rost), Carl Hanser, München 2008. *

Emma Lew Emma Lew (born 1962) is a contemporary Australian poet. Born in Melbourne, Emma Lew studied arts at Melbourne University and worked as a deckhand, shop assistant, proof-reader, and clerical assistant, only beginning to write poetry in 1993.

: ''Nesselgesang. Gedichte''. Yedermann, München 2008. *

Sherwood Anderson Sherwood Anderson (September 13, 1876 – March 8, 1941) was an American novelist and short story writer, known for subjective and self-revealing works. Self-educated, he rose to become a successful copywriter and business owner in Cleveland and ...

: ''Winesburg, Ohio''. Schöffling & Co., Frankfurt am Main 2012, .

Essays in literary journals

* ''Dunkle Deutung des Vogelflugs''. Essay. ''

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'' No. 24, 2009. * ''Das verwundete Herz''. Essay. '' Quart Heft für Kultur Tirol'' No. 18, 2011.

Prizes

* 2001 Wolfgang-Weyrauch-Förderpreis for the ''„Literarischer März“'' competition * 2002 Ernst-Willner-Preis at

Klagenfurt Klagenfurt am WörtherseeLandesgesetzblatt 2008 vom 16. Jänner 2008, Stück 1, Nr. 1: ''Gesetz vom 25. Oktober 2007, mit dem die Kärntner Landesverfassung und das Klagenfurter Stadtrecht 1998 geändert werden.'/ref> (; ; sl, Celovec), usually ...

* 2004

Berliner Kunstpreis The ''Berliner Kunstpreis'' (Berlin Art Prize), officially Großer Berliner Kunstpreis, is a prize for the arts by the City of Berlin. It was first awarded in 1948 in several fields of art. Since 1971, it has been awarded by the Academy of Arts ( ...

Förderpreis * 2007 award * 2008 Prix Relay du Roman d'Evasion * 2008

Ernst-Meister-Preis für Lyrik Ernst-Meister-Preis für Lyrik (Ernst Meister Prize for Poetry) is a literary prize of Germany. The prize is endowed with €5,000. The Ernst Meister Prize was founded in 1981 in memory of the Hagen poet and writer Ernst Meister and has been award ...

Förderpreis * 2010 Marie-Luise-Kaschnitz-Preis * 2010 Writer in Residence

Rio de Janeiro Rio de Janeiro ( , , ; literally 'River of January'), or simply Rio, is the capital of the state of the same name, Brazil's third-most populous state, and the second-most populous city in Brazil, after São Paulo. Listed by the GaWC as a b ...

* 2012 Writer in Residence

Shanghai Shanghai (; , , Standard Mandarin pronunciation: ) is one of the four direct-administered municipalities of the People's Republic of China (PRC). The city is located on the southern estuary of the Yangtze River, with the Huangpu River flow ...

* 2014

Rainer-Malkowski-Preis Rainer-Malkowski-Preis is a literary prize of Germany. The prize is awarded every two years by the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts in cooperation with the Rainer Malkowski Foundation. The Rainer Malkowski Prize, with prize money of 30,000 euros, is ...

References

External links

Official website

Fortlaufende Textveröffentlichungen von Mirko Bonné im Literaturportal „Der goldene Fisch“

Mirko Bonné: Eindrücke von einem lange aufgeschobenen Besuch im „westfälischen Idaho“

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Mirko Bonné im Gespräch über die Handlungsorte in seinem Werk
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