Heike Geissler (born 5 April 1977) is a German author. She is a recipient of the

Alfred Döblin Prize The Alfred Döblin Prize () 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 :de:Literarisches Colloquium Berlin, Li ...

Life

Heike Geissler was born in

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, on 5 April 1977. She grew up in

and

Karl-Marx-Stadt Chemnitz (; from 1953 to 1990: Karl-Marx-Stadt (); ; ) is the third-largest city in the Germany, German States of Germany, state of Saxony after Leipzig and Dresden, and the fourth-largest city in the area of former East Germany after (East Be ...

Chemnitz Chemnitz (; from 1953 to 1990: Karl-Marx-Stadt (); ; ) is the third-largest city in the Germany, German States of Germany, state of Saxony after Leipzig and Dresden, and the fourth-largest city in the area of former East Germany after (East Be ...

. In 2001, she received the Alfred Döblin Prize for her novel ''Rosa'', which was published the following year. Her novel ''Saisonarbeit'' (2014) was published as ''Seasonal Associate'' by

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in English translation by Katy Derbyshire in 2018 to critical acclaim. She lives in

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Awards

*2001, Alfred Döblin Prize

Publications

* ''Rosa. Roman''. Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Stuttgart/München 2002, . * ''Nichts, was tragisch wäre''. Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, München 2007, . * ''Emma und Pferd Beere''. With illustrations by Simone Waßermann, Lubok Verlag, Leipzig 2009, . * ''Saisonarbeit''. Spector Books, Leipzig 2014, . ** English-language translation: ''Seasonal Associate''. Translated Katy Derbyshire. Semiotext(e), New York 2018, . *

References

External links

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Author homepageProfile of Heike Geißler, Deutschlandradio KulturReview of ''Seasonal Associate'' (Saisonarbeit) in the New Yorker (19 November 2018)
{{DEFAULTSORT:Geissler, Heike 1977 births Living people People from Riesa People from Bezirk Dresden 21st-century German writers 21st-century German women writers Writers from Saxony