Carola Gruber

Carola Gruber (2016)

Carola Gruber (* 1983 in Bonn ) is a German author .

Life

Carola Gruber studied creative writing and cultural journalism as well as comparative literature in Hildesheim , Berlin and Montreal and did her doctorate in literature at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich . She has received several prizes to promote young authors and was a finalist in the Floriana Literature Prize . In addition to her individual publications, she has published in various literary magazines, including Am Erker , Besides.dem , lit and poet. She lives in Munich, where she also teaches creative writing courses.

Single publications

• Everything in its place , Poetenladen Verlag, Leipzig 2008
• Stoffelhoppels Untergang , Edition Ranis, Ranis 2012
• Events in a nutshell. Narratological studies on the eventfulness in the shortest prose by Thomas Bernhard , Ror Wolf and Helmut Heißenbüttel , Transcript Verlag , Bielefeld 2013

Awards and honors

• 2011/2012 city clerk for Ranis
• 2012 Schwaz town clerk
• 2016 Literature grant from the Free State of Bavaria for the novel project Alles über Zebras
• 2018 Würth Literature Prize for the text Schon gut
• 2018 Prenzlauer Berg Literature Prize (3rd place) for the text Sportsfreundin
• 2018 erostepost literature prize

Web links

• Literature by and about Carola Gruber in the catalog of the German National Library
• Author's website
• Constanze Gröbmair: With creativity against writer's block - young author Carola Gruber has written a literary guide with 66 possible stories. Süddeutsche Zeitung, 2008, accessed on January 3, 2015 .  *

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Carola Gruber. Poet's Shop, accessed January 3, 2015 . 
2. ↑ Dr. Carola Gruber. (No longer available online.) Münchner Volkshochschule, archived from the original on January 4, 2015 ; Retrieved January 3, 2015 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.