Nora Wagener (born 1989) is a Luxembourgish short story writer, novelist, children's writer and

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who writes mainly in German. She has won many awards including the 2017

Prix Servais The Servais Prize for Literature (french: Prix Servais pour la littérature) is a Luxembourgish literary award, awarded since 1992 by the Servais Foundation. It is judged by a jury, and can be bestowed upon any writer from Luxembourg, regardless of ...

for ''Larven'' (Larvae), a collection of short stories, which was judged to be the most significant literary work published in Luxembourg in 2016.

Biography

Born in Luxembourg City on 21 March 1989, she was brought up in

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. After matriculating from the Lycée Robert-Schuman in 2008, she studied creative literature and journalism at the

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, Germany, graduating in 2012. The following year, she received a diploma in Luxembourg language and culture from Luxembourg's Institut National des Langues. In 2011, she published the novel ''Menschenliebe und Vogel, schrei'' in which the narrator reflects on life and her own identity while staying with her grandmother. In 2015, she wrote ''Visions'', a play featuring a depressed woman, which was presented in Esch-sur-Alzette under the direction of Claire Thill. The same year she published ''E. Galaxien'' with short stories about Erwin, Edgar and Eleonore whose lives develop in different environments. In 2016, after collaborating with fellow writer Luc Caregari on the children's story ''d’Glühschwéngchen'' in Luxembourgish, she published ''Larven'', a collection of 16 romantic short stories. The book earned her the

but also the Prix Coup de coeur, under the Lëtzebuerger Bircerhpräis.

References

External links

Nora Wagener's website
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