Peter Gosse (born 6 October 1938 in

Leipzig Leipzig ( , ; Upper Saxon: ) is the most populous city in the German state of Saxony. Leipzig's population of 605,407 inhabitants (1.1 million in the larger urban zone) as of 2021 places the city as Germany's eighth most populous, as ...

) is a German poet, prose author and essayist.

Life

Peter Gosse first completed a study of high frequency technology in Moscow. After an occupation as an engineer, he worked as a freelance writer in

East Germany East Germany, officially the German Democratic Republic (GDR; german: Deutsche Demokratische Republik, , DDR, ), was a country that existed from its creation on 7 October 1949 until its dissolution on 3 October 1990. In these years the state ...

from 1968. Since 1985 he has been a lecturer of poetry at the

German Institute for Literature The German Institute for Literature (German: ''Deutsches Literaturinstitut Leipzig'', DLL) is a part of Leipzig University. It was founded in 1955 under the name Johannes R. Becher-Institut. Among the noted writers who graduated from the school a ...

in Leipzig, where he became the commissioned Director in 1993. Afterwards, he became a guest Professor in the USA. Peter Gosse is a member of the International PEN and since 2008, deputy President of the Sächsischen Akademie der Künste (Saxon Academy of the Arts).

Works

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Awards

* Heinrich Heine prize of the Ministry for culture of the GDR 1985 * Heinrich Mann Prize of the

Academy of Arts, Berlin The Academy of Arts (german: Akademie der Künste) is a state arts institution in Berlin, Germany. The task of the Academy is to promote art, as well as to advise and support the states of Germany. The Academy's predecessor organization was fo ...

1991 {{DEFAULTSORT:Gosse, Peter 1938 births Living people Writers from Leipzig German poets 20th-century German novelists 21st-century German novelists German essayists East German writers Writers from Saxony Heinrich Mann Prize winners German male essayists German male poets German male novelists 20th-century essayists 21st-century essayists 20th-century German male writers 21st-century German male writers