Cordula Simon
Cordula Simon (born March 27, 1986 in Graz ) is an Austrian writer.
Life
Cordula Simon grew up in Eastern Styria. She studied German and Russian philology in Graz and Odessa and graduated with the thesis Lou Andreas-Salomé's Russia: The Creation of Alterity in Autobiographical and Literary Writings . As a teenager she took part in the youth literature workshop in Graz, where she gives workshops today. She spent her semester abroad in Odessa, Ukraine. She is a member of the literary group die plattform , an “open collective of authors settled in the Graz literary house and rolling through the (head) world”. After publications in various magazines (including manuscripts , Lichtungen , ZEIT-Campus , Opus ) and several literary prizes (including: manuskripte-Förderpreis, Gustav -gler-Förderpreis), her first novel The Potemkin Dog was published in August 2012 . Since 2011 she has been living and writing temporarily in Odessa.
Awards and grants
- 2005: Fellow of the Wolfenbüttel Literature Laboratory
- 2009: Winner of the Zeit-Campus literature competition
- 2010: manuscripts - Literature Promotion Prize
- 2011: State grant from the Federal Ministry for Education, Art and Culture (bm: ukk)
- 2011: Gustav-Regulator- Förderpreis des Saarländischer Rundfunk
- 2012: Start-up grant from the Federal Ministry for Education, Art and Culture (bm: ukk)
- 2012: rotahorn - Literature Promotion Prize
- 2012: Literature Promotion Prize of the City of Graz 2012
- 2012: Award for a particularly successful literary debut from the Federal Ministry for Education, Art and Culture (bm: ukk)
- 2013: Participation in the 37th Days of German-Language Literature
- 2013: Scholarship holder of the Literary Colloquium Berlin
- 2013: Lise Meitner Literature Prize Winner
- 2013: Nominated for the Alpha Literature Prize of Casinos Austria
- 2014: Writer in Residence of the one world foundation Sri Lanka
Works
- Lou Andreas-Salomés Russia. The creation of alterity in autobiographical and literary writings. Publishing house Dr. Müller, Saarbrücken 2011, ISBN 978-3-639-35504-8 .
- The Potemkin dog. Novel. Picus, Vienna 2012, ISBN 978-3-85452-688-9 .
- Ostrov Mogila. Novel. Picus, Vienna 2013, ISBN 978-3-7117-2002-3 .
- How to sleep. Novel. Residenz, Vienna 2016, ISBN 978-3-7017-1668-5 .
- The Neubauer. Novel . Residence, Vienna 2018, ISBN 978-3-7017-1685-2 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Cordula Simon in the catalog of the German National Library
- Short biography and information on the work of Cordula Simon at Literaturport
- Works by and about Cordula Simon at Open Library
- official homepage
- The lecture . Winner text at the Zeit-Campus literature competition 2009
- severin . In: Typist - Das Feuilletonmagazin
- Jury statements for the 2012 Literature Promotion Prize
Individual evidence
- ^ Literature Promotion Prize of the City of Graz. Cultural Office of the City of Graz, accessed on April 28, 2013 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Simon, Cordula |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 27, 1986 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Graz |