Marjana Gaponenko

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Marjana Michailovna Gaponenko ( Ukrainian Мар'яна Михайлівна Гапоненко Marjana Mychajliwna Haponenko ; born September 6, 1981 in Odessa , Ukrainian SSR ) is a Ukrainian writer who has been writing in German since 1996.

life and work

Marjana Gaponenko spent her childhood and youth in Odessa. After graduating from school, she studied German at Odessa University and began to write and publish poetry.

In Germany she was first promoted by Erik Martin , the editor of the literary magazine Muschelhaufen , and known to a larger readership for his poems. Gapnenko's poems have been translated into English, French, Italian, Polish, Romanian and Turkish.

In 2000 she made her debut with the volume of poetry How tearless knights .

In 2001 she was one of the candidates for the title of Author of the Year for the magazine Deutsche Sprachwelt .

In 2010 the first novel, Annuschka Blume , was published by Residenz Verlag . In 2012 Suhrkamp published the novel Wer ist Martha? Which has also been translated into English and French . the story of two old men who spend their last days in a noble Viennese hotel and wait to die there.

After three years in Krakow and Dublin , Marjana Gaponenk, who is a member of the authors' forum Der Goldene Fisch , lives in Vienna and Mainz.

Single track

Anthologies (selection)

  • Theo Breuer (Ed.): NordWestSüdOst. Poems by contemporaries . Edition YE, Sistig / Eifel 2003.
  • Daniela Egger (ed.): Oysters in the snow and other summer stories. A literary map of Lech and Zürs . Bucher, Hohenems 2008.
  • Shafiq Naz (ed.): The German poetry calendar . alhambra publishing, Bertem 2009.
  • Christoph Buchwald, Uljana Wolf (ed.): Year book of poetry . S. Fischer Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2009.
  • Axel Kutsch (Ed.): Versnetze . German-language poetry of the present. Verlag Ralf Liebe, Weilerswist 2008–2010.

Awards

literature

  • Sabine Berking: Not a blank slate. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . April 20, 2010.
  • Friedhelm Schmitz: Perpetuum mobile. Just why? In: Clams . 44th edition, Viersen 2004, p. 194.

Web links

Commons : Marjana Gaponenko  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Marjana Gaponenko "Author of the Year" 2001. ( Memento from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), Deutsche Sprachwelt. Retrieved October 28, 2016.
  2. Marjana Gaponenko Who is Martha? . Review notes from the Neue Zürcher Zeitung and the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung on Perlentaucher . Retrieved October 28, 2016.
  3. Be more silent . In: Der Spiegel . No. 33 of August 13, 2012, p. 116.
  4. der-goldene-fisch.de ( Memento from October 1, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
  5. Laudation by Alexander Glück. ( Memento from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
  6. ^ Stiftung Künstlerdorf Schöppingen: Scholarship holders 2001. ( Memento from February 26, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  7. Marjana-Gaponenko-gets Chamisso Prize . In: Hamburger Abendblatt. January 15, 2013