Andreas Münzner

Andreas Münzner (born September 26, 1967 in Mount Kisco , New York , USA) is a Swiss writer and translator.

Life

Münzner grew up near Zurich , studied electrical engineering at the ETH Zurich and translation at the ETI of the University of Geneva . He lives as an author and translator in Hamburg .

Works

• The height of the Alps , Roman, Rowohlt , Reinbek 2002
• The order of the snow , poetry, Zu Klampen Verlag , Springe 2005, ISBN 978-3-933156-83-9
• Geographies , Stories, Liebeskind , Munich 2005
• Stehle , Roman, Liebeskind , Munich 2008
• My secretary , two stories, literature quickie , Hamburg 2010
• Signs of a reversal , poetry, LYRIKPAPYRI, Edition Voss, Horlemann Verlag , Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-89502-342-2

Translations

• Noëlle Revaz : Because of the animals , Roman, Urs Engeler Editor , Basel / Weil am Rhein and Vienna 2004
• Hamid Skif : Exile der Morgen / Letters from an absent person , poetry and prose, Manutius Verlag , Heidelberg 2005
• Hamid Skif : Geography of Fear , Roman, Edition Nautilus , Hamburg 2007
• Alain Mabanckou : Black Bazar , Roman, Liebeskind , Munich 2010
• Christopher Mlalazi : Running away with mother , Roman, Horlemann Verlag , Berlin 2013

Awards

• 2000: Hamburg Prize for Literature
• 2001: Hermann Ganz Prize from the Swiss Association of Writers
• 2002: Literature Prize of the Jürgen Ponto Foundation
• 2003: Irmgard Heilmann Prize
• 2003: Individual work award from the Swiss Schiller Foundation
• 2005: Award for the Ernst Meister Prize for Poetry
• 2006: Prize for literary translations from the City of Hamburg
• 2010: Hamburg Prize for Literature

Web links

• Literature by and about Andreas Münzner in the catalog of the German National Library
• Short biography and information on the work of Andreas Münzner at Literaturport
• Andreas Münzner in an interview about places of action in his work