Dana Grigorcea

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Dana Grigorcea (2013)

Dana Grigorcea (born November 11, 1979 in Bucharest , Romania ; actually Caudia Dana von Grigorcea ) is a Swiss-Romanian writer and philologist.

Life

Dana Grigorcea studied from 1998 to 2002 at the University of Bucharest at the Faculty of Foreign Languages ​​and Literature (MA in German and Dutch Philology). She then completed a semester abroad at the University of Ghent , Belgium, and studied theater and film directing at the Erasmus - University of Brussels . In 2004 she completed her master's degree (MA) in quality journalism at Danube University Krems .

Since then she has worked for the Austrian daily Kurier in Vienna, for Deutsche Welle (DW-Radio) in Bonn and for the television station Arte in Strasbourg. She is a producer of television and radio programs and has worked as a Germany correspondent for Romanian television and radio. From 2009 to 2011 she was responsible for the TV / Film division in media engineering at the HTW Chur . From 2011 to 2013 she was a lecturer in film at the Zurich University of the Arts ZHdK.

In 2002, Dana Grigorcea published travel stories from the Holy Land in the magazine of the Romanian Writers' Union , where she had spent a few months in a Romanian women's convent. In 2011 she made her debut with the novel Baba Rada , which she wrote in German and which was published by KaMeRu Verlag in Zurich. As early as 2003 she had started to write literary exclusively in German.

At the invitation of Hildegard Elisabeth Keller , Grigorcea took part in the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize 2015 and won the 3sat Prize there .

Dana Grigorcea lives in Zurich with her husband, the writer Perikles Monioudis . They have a daughter and a son.

Works

  • About empathy. Does art make us better people? Telegramme Verlag, Zurich 2019, ISBN 978-3-907198-79-7 .
  • The names of the flowers . Picture book. Baeschlin, Glarus 2019, ISBN 978-3-03893-011-2 .
  • Cut hair once, please . Picture book. Baeschlin, Glarus 2018, ISBN 978-3-03893-007-5 .
  • Mrs. Mani on the way home . Columns for the Zurich Opera House magazine. Literature Quickie, Hamburg 2018, ISBN 978-3-94545-344-5 .
  • Follow your nose . Fragrance picture book. Baeschlin, Glarus 2018, ISBN 978-3-03893-000-6 .
  • The lady with the Maghrebian puppy dog . Novella. Dörlemann, Zurich 2018, ISBN 978-3-03820-055-0 . Translations: Albanian (Botimet people), Slovak (Inaque), French (Albin Michel).
  • Moon out! . Picture book. Baeschlin, Glarus 2016, ISBN 978-3-85546-300-8 .
  • The primary sense of innocence . Novel. Dörlemann, Zurich 2015, ISBN 978-3-03820-021-5 ; Ullstein, Berlin 2017. ISBN 978-3-548-28903-8 ; Translations: English (Seagull Books), Romanian (Humanitas), Italian (Nuova Editrice Berti), Bulgarian (Black Flamingo), Dutch (Atlas).
  • Baba Rada. Life is as fleeting as the hair on your head . Roman, KaMeRu Verlag, Zurich 2011; New edition: Dörlemann, Zurich 2015, ISBN 978-3-03820-024-6 .

Awards

  • 2018 recognition by the canton of Zurich
  • 2017 year of work for the Swiss cultural foundation Pro Helvetia
  • 2015 Shortlist Swiss Book Prize
  • 2015 Shortlist Literature Prize of the German Business Association
  • 2015 Honorary gift from the city of Zurich for "The primary feeling of innocence"
  • 2015 3sat Prize as part of the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize
  • 2011 Honorary gift from the City of Zurich
  • 2011 Honorary gift from the Canton of Zurich
  • 2011 Swiss literary pearl

Web links

Commons : Dana Grigorcea  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dana Grigorcea bachmannpreis.orf.at, May 28, 2015. Presentation of the participant with videos (portrait, reading, jury discussion).
  2. ↑ a b Bachmann Prize for Nora Gomringer bachmannpreis.orf.at, July 5, 2015. See section 3sat Prize for Dana Grigorcea .
personal data
SURNAME Grigorcea, Dana
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss-Romanian writer and philologist
DATE OF BIRTH November 11, 1979
PLACE OF BIRTH Bucharest , Romania