Natascha Wodin (born 8 December 1945) is a German writer of

Ukrainian Ukrainian may refer to: * Something of, from, or related to Ukraine * Something relating to Ukrainians, an East Slavic people from Eastern Europe * Something relating to demographics of Ukraine in terms of demography and population of Ukraine * So ...

origin. She was born in

Fürth Fürth (; East Franconian: ; yi, פיורדא, Fiurda) is a city in northern Bavaria, Germany, in the administrative division (''Regierungsbezirk'') of Middle Franconia. It is now contiguous with the larger city of Nuremberg, the centres of the t ...

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in 1945 to parents who had been forced labourers under the

Nazi regime Nazi Germany (lit. "National Socialist State"), ' (lit. "Nazi State") for short; also ' (lit. "National Socialist Germany") (officially known as the German Reich from 1933 until 1943, and the Greater German Reich from 1943 to 1945) was ...

. She grew up in a camp for displaced persons. Following her mother's suicide, she was raised in a

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home for girls. She worked as a telephone operator and stenographer before becoming an interpreter and translator of Russian in the early 1970s. Wodin has translated literary works from Russian into German and has lived in Moscow. She has written novels, short stories and poetry, and has won many prizes, including the Adelbert-von-Chamisso Prize in 1998, the

Brothers Grimm Prize of the City of Hanau Brothers Grimm Prize of the City of Hanau is a literary prize of Hesse. The prize, awarded by the City of Hanau, honors the Brothers Grimm, who were both born in Hanau. The prize is endowed with €10,000 and has been awarded since 1983. The ceremo ...

in 1989 and 2009, 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 ...

in 2015 and the

Leipzig Book Fair Prize The Leipzig Book Fair Prize () is a literary award assigned annually during the Leipzig Book Fair to outstanding newly released literary works in the categories "Fiction", "Non-fiction" and "Translation". The Leipzig Book Fair Prize has been award ...

in 2017 for ''Sie kam aus Mariupol'', one of her best known books. Her book ''Irgendwo in diesem Dunkel'' is a memoir of her father. She was married to the novelist

Wolfgang Hilbig Wolfgang Hilbig (31 August 1941 2 June 2007) was a German writer and poet. Life Wolfgang Hilbig was born in Meuselwitz, Germany. His grandfather had emigrated from Biłgoraj (Congress Poland, Russian Empire) before the First World War. In 194 ...

, an experience which she recounts in her book ''Nachtgeschwister''. She has lived in Berlin and

Mecklenburg Mecklenburg (; nds, label=Low German, Mękel(n)borg ) is a historical region in northern Germany comprising the western and larger part of the federal-state Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. The largest cities of the region are Rostock, Schwerin ...

since 1984.

Works

* ''Die gläserne Stadt.'' Rowohlt, Reinbek 1983. . ** Reissue: ''Die gläserne Stadt.'' ars vivendi verlag, Cadolzburg 2020. . * Nadja: ''Briefe aus Russland.'' editor, translator and introduction by Natascha Wodin. Nishen, Kreuzberg 1984. . * ''Das Sprachverlies.'' poems. Rowohlt, Reinbek 1987. . * ''Einmal lebt ich.'' DTV, München 1989. . * ''Sergej. Griechisches Tagebuch.'' Büchergilde Gutenberg, 1993. * ''Erfindung einer Liebe.'' Reclam, Leipzig 1993. . * ''Die Ehe.'' Kiepenheuer, Leipzig 1997. . * ''Das Singen der Fische.'' Kiepenheuer, Leipzig 2001. . * ''Nachtgeschwister.'' Kunstmann, München 2009. . * ''Alter, fremdes Land.'' Jung und Jung, Salzburg/Wien 2014. . * '. Rowohlt, Reinbek 2017. . * ''Irgendwo in diesem Dunkel''. Rowohlt, Reinbek 2018. . * ''Nastjas Tränen''. Rowohlt Hamburg 2021. .

English translations

Awards

Source: * 1981 Scholarship of the Deutscher Literaturfonds * 1984

Hermann-Hesse-Preis The Hermann-Hesse-Literaturpreis is a literary prize of Germany in honour of German-born Swiss writer, poet and Nobel Prize winner Hermann Hesse. The award is presented in Karlsruhe. The prize sum is 15,000 Euros. Previous winners include Martin ...

* 1984 Kulturförderpreis der Stadt Nürnberg * 1985 Andreas-Gryphius-Förderpreis * 1987 Scholarship of the Deutscher Literaturfonds * 1988 Scholarship of the Deutscher Literaturfonds * 1988 Scholarship in Künstlerhaus Edenkoben * 1989

* 1990 Scholarship at the Akademie Schloß Solitude * 1992 Scholarship in Künstlerdorf Schöppingen * 1998

Adelbert von Chamisso Prize The Adelbert von Chamisso Prize (German ''Adelbert-von-Chamisso-Preis'') was a German literary award established in 1985, given to a work whose author's mother tongue is not German, as was the case for Adelbert von Chamisso. It was offered by the Ro ...

* 2004 Scholarship of the Stiftung Preussische Seehandlung * 2005 Wolfram-von-Eschenbach-Preis * 2006 Ehrengabe der Deutschen Schillerstiftung * 2009 Brothers Grimm Prize of the City of Hanau * 2010 Scholarship of the Deutscher Literaturfonds * 2015 Scholarship of the Deutscher Literaturfonds * 2015

* 2016 Arbeitsstipendium des Berliner Senats * 2017

in the category of fiction * 2017 August Graf von Platen Prize * 2019 Hilde-Domin-Preis für Literatur im Exil * 2021 Gisela-Elsner-Preis * 2022

Joseph-Breitbach-Preis Joseph-Breitbach-Preis (Joseph Breitbach Prize) is a literary prize awarded by the Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur Mainz (Academy of Sciences and Literature of Mainz), in Germany and the Joseph Breitbach Foundation. Established in ...

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