Angelika Overath is a German author

Author

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 and journalist

Journalist

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Overath studied German literature, History, Italian Studies, and Cultural Studies at the University of Tübingen and wrote a PhD-thesis in 1986 about the colour blue

Blue

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 in modern literature.

She regularly works as Writer in Residence for the German Section in the School of Modern Languages, Newcastle University, and at Queen Mary's College

Queen Mary, University of London

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, London. She also teaches creative writing for the Swiss Hyperwerk.

Prizes

• 1996 Egon-Erwin-Kisch
  Egon Erwin Kisch
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   Prize for literary reportage
• 2002/2003 One-year scholarship of the Deutscher Literaturfonds, Darmstadt
• 2005 Thaddäus-Troll Prize
• 2006 Ernst-Willner-Prize at the Ingeborg-Bachmann-Competition
  Ingeborg Bachmann Prize
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• 2007/2008 Writer in Residence at Queen Mary and Westfield College
  Queen Mary, University of London
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   London
• 2008 Swiss prize for independent journalism
• 2009 Longlist for the German Book Prize
  German Book Prize
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   by the Börsenverein Deutscher Buchhandel
• 2009 Shortlist for the Swiss Book Prize
  Swiss Book Prize
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Books

• Das andere Blau, Zur Poetik einer Farbe im modernen Gedicht. (1987) Stuttgart: Metzler.
• Händler der verlorenen Farben. (1998) Lengwil: Libelle.
• Vom Sekundenglück brennender Papierchen. (2000) Lengwil: Libelle.
• Schlimme Ehen. Ein Hochzeitsbuch, aus vielen Quellen zusammengetragen. together with Manfred Koch. (2000) Frankfurt: Eichborn.
• Spatzenweisheit. together with Horst Munzig. (2001) Freiburg: Herder.
  • Mussenpraat. Dutch translation by Annette van Schoonhoven. (2003) Amsterdam: Palet Gifts. ISBN 9789042700260.
• Schlaflos: das Buch der hellen Nächte. together with Manfred Koch. (2002) Lengwil: Libelle.
• Die Kunst des Einfachen. together with Manfred Koch. (2000) Freiburg: Herder.
• Toleranz. together with Navid Kermani and Robert Schindel. (2003) Göttingen: Wallstein.
• Das halbe Brot der Vögel. (2004) Göttingen: Wallstein.
• Generationen-Bilder. (2005) Lengwil: Libelle.
• Nahe Tage. novel (2005) Göttingen: Wallstein. / (2008) Munich: dtv.
• Genies und ihre Geheimnisse. 100 biographische Rätsel. together with Manfred Koch and Silvia Overath (2007) Berlin: List.
• Hunde mitzubringen ist erlaubt: Ein literarischer Salon. together with Manfred Koch. (2008) Berlin: List.
• Genies und ihre Geheimnisse, Band 2. 100 neue biographische Rätsel. together with Manfred Koch and Silvia Overath. (2009) Berlin: List.
• Flughafenfische. novel. (2009) Munich: Luchterhand.
  • Short interview with the author about the genesis of the book and the difficulties translating her.
• Alle Farben des Schnees. Senter Tagebuch. (2010) Munich: Luchterhand.
  • English review in New Books in German

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