Jens Steiner

Jens Steiner at the Leipzig Book Fair 2014

Jens Steiner (* 1975 in Zurich ) is a Swiss writer .

Life

Jens Steiner was born in Zurich in 1975. His father is Swiss, his mother Danish. He studied German , philosophy and comparative literature in Zurich and Geneva before working as a teacher and lecturer . Today he is a full-time writer.

Awards / nominations

• 2011: Nomination for the long list of the German Book Prize for Hasenleben
• 2012: Prize of the Swiss Schiller Foundation for rabbit life
• 2012: “The second book” award from the Marianne and Curt Dienemann Foundation for the manuscript on Carambole
• 2013: Nomination for the longlist of the German Book Prize for Carambole
• 2013: Swiss Book Prize for Carambole . The award ceremony took place on November 13th in the new Lettrétage domicile on Mehringdamm in Berlin.

Works

• Rabbit life. Novel. Dörlemann Verlag, Zurich 2011, ISBN 978-3-908777-64-9 .
• Carambola. Novel. Dörlemann Verlag, Zurich 2013, ISBN 978-3-908777-92-2 .
• Young man with an unremarkable past. Novel. Dörlemann, Zurich 2015, ISBN 978-3-03820-015-4 .
• My life as a bearer of hope. Novel . Arche, Zurich 2017, ISBN 978-3-7160-2764-6 .
• The bratwurstzipfel detectives and the secret of the trolley case . Ravensburger, Ravensburg 2018, ISBN 978-3-473-40817-7 .

Web links

• Publications by and about Jens Steiner in the Helveticat catalog of the Swiss National Library
• Literature by and about Jens Steiner in the catalog of the German National Library
• Short biography and reviews of works by Jens Steiner at perlentaucher.de
• Jens Steiner's website

Individual evidence

1. ^ Jury nominates 20 novels. ( Memento of the original from September 9, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) 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. Website of the German Book Prize. Retrieved August 19, 2013.  
2. ↑ Prize winners 1908–2012 ( Memento of the original from March 3, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) 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. (PDF; 343 kB). Website of the Swiss Schiller Foundation. Retrieved August 20, 2013. 
3. ↑ Jens Steiner receives literary prize. persoenlich.com. Retrieved August 19, 2013.
4. ↑ Jury nominates 20 novels for the German Book Prize 2013. ( Memento of the original from August 17, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Website of the German Book Prize. Retrieved August 19, 2013.  
5. ↑ Jens Steiner wins with Carambole Neue Zürcher Zeitung, accessed on October 27, 2013
6. ↑ Sibylle Saxer: Sliding Identities - Jens Steiner's “Hasenleben” breaks through traditional narrative patterns. Review in: Neue Zürcher Zeitung , May 12, 2011, accessed on August 21, 2013.
7. ↑ Book review in the show 52 best books on Swiss radio (August 27, 2017)