Kenah Cusanit
Kenah Cusanit (born 1979 in Blankenburg (Harz) ) is a German writer .
Life
Kenah Cusanit grew up in Berlin-Brandenburg. She studied ancient oriental philology , ethnology and African studies and successfully completed her studies with a Master of Arts. In addition to her fiction writing, she worked as a journalist in Germany and abroad after graduating, including as a science journalist. Her texts have been published in numerous respected literary magazines such as Edit , Language in the Technical Age and manuscripts and in anthologies, such as B. in the yearbook of poetry since 2009. For her essays and poems she has been awarded several prizes and grants. Kenah Cusanit took part in the Prosanova Festival 2014. In 2019 her novel Babel was nominated for the Leipzig Book Fair 2019 prize in the “Fiction” category.
Publications
- made of paper . Poems, Hochroth Verlag , Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-902871-52-7 .
- Chronographe Chorologien I . Poems, Hochroth Verlag, Berlin 2017, ISBN 978-3-902871-93-0 .
- Babel . Roman, Hanser Verlag , Munich 2019, ISBN 978-3-446261-65-5 .
Awards (selection)
- 2019 Uwe Johnson Award for Babel
- 2019 working grant from the Berlin Senate
- 2018 work grant from the Prussian Sea Trade Foundation Berlin
- 2017 working grant from the Berlin Senate
- 2016 finalist at the Meran Poetry Prize
- 2014 Bavarian Art Prize
- 2012 Update Prize from the Bavarian Literature Foundation
- 2012 working grant from the Cultural Foundation of the Free State of Saxony
- 2012 residency grant from the Donnersbergkreis Art Association
- 2011 scholarship from the prose workshop of the Berlin Literary Colloquium
- 2010 Feldkirch Poetry Prize
- 2009 working grant from the state of Brandenburg
Web links
- Literature by and about Kenah Cusanit in the catalog of the German National Library
- Short biography and information on the work of Kenah Cusanit at Literaturport
- Poetry in the morning. BR, October 24, 2014, archived from the original on March 23, 2015 ; accessed on February 27, 2016 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Kenah Cusanit. Prosanova, 2014, accessed February 27, 2016 .
- ↑ Prize of the Leipzig Book Fair 2019 Fiction , accessed on February 14, 2019
- ↑ Berlin Senate
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Cusanit, Kenah |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German author |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1979 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Blankenburg (Harz) |