Kerstin Becker
Kerstin Becker (born March 14, 1969 in Frankenberg ) is a German writer.
life and work
Kerstin Becker grew up in Moosheim and Hainichen in Saxony. She worked as a typesetter and cemetery gardener. She has been working as a freelance writer, poetry and children's books, and editor since 2001. She is also part of the editorial team of the Dresden literary magazine Ostragehege .
In addition to poems that have been published in numerous journals and anthologies at home and abroad (including in Concepts , Lauter Nobody , Dulzinea , Ostragehege , poet and in the Yearbook of Poetry ), Kerstin Becker, whose poems are in Czech, Serbian, Hungarian, Arabic and Macedonische, author of several volumes of the children's booklet series Kindergartenfuchs , which is published by Junker Verlag ( Rheinau ).
Together with Martina Lisa Petr Hruška's poetry book Irgendwohin nach Haus , published in 2019, she translated into German.
Kerstin Becker has two children and lives in Dresden.
Single title (selection)
- Samosai the wild lion. With funny stories & poems through the year . Pro Business, Berlin 2005, ISBN 978-3-939000-22-8 .
- The Stone Age. Texts and poems . Junker Verlag, Rheinau 2011.
- Bare verse . Poems. Fixpoetry Verlag, Hamburg 2012, ISBN 978-3-942890-11-3 .
- Biestmilch . Poems. edition AZUR, Dresden 2016, ISBN 978-3-942375-23-8 .
Awards
- 2005: Poetenladen debut competition (2nd prize / with Anja Kampmann )
- 2006: FDA Poetry Prize
- 2009: Scholarship for the Saxony Cultural Foundation ( Denkmalschmiede Höfgen )
- 2013: Irseer Pegasus (2nd prize)
- 2014: Poetry Prize Munich (2nd Prize)
- 2014: Scholarship for the Saxony Cultural Foundation ( AT HOME GALLERY Šamorín )
- 2014: Merano Poetry Prize (finalist)
- 2014: Dresden Poetry Prize (finalist)
- 2015: Working grant, Office for Culture and Monument Protection Dresden
- 2016: Poetry books of the year in the Literaturhaus Berlin with Biestmilch
- 2019: Scholarship Künstlerhaus Edenkoben
- 2019: Scholarship Foundation Künstlerdorf Schöppingen
Web links
- Literature by and about Kerstin Becker in the catalog of the German National Library
- Website from Kerstin Becker
- Kerstin Becker at Lyrikline.org
Individual evidence
- ↑ Trained typesetter in hand typesetting
- ↑ http://www.kerstin-becker-autorin.de/index.php?page=publikationen
- ↑ Transferred to Czech a. a. from Věra Koubová, into Serbian from Verica Trickovic, into Arabic from Fouad al Auwad
- ↑ State capital Dresden: Dresdner Poetry Prize 2014 - The nominees 2014. (No longer available online.) Dresden.de, October 27, 2014, archived from the original on November 2, 2014 ; Retrieved November 2, 2014 . 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.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Becker, Kerstin |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German author |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 14, 1969 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Frankenberg / Sa. |