Matthias Nawrat

Matthias Nawrat (2013)

Matthias Nawrat (born September 13, 1979 in Opole ) is a German writer of Polish origin.

Life

Matthias Nawrat was born in Opole, Poland, and moved with his family to Bamberg in 1989 . From 2000 to 2007 he studied biology in Heidelberg and Freiburg im Breisgau . In 2009 he began studying at the Swiss Literature Institute in Biel / Bienne . His debut novel We Two Alone was published in 2012 by Nagel & Kimche .

At the invitation of juror Hildegard Elisabeth Keller , Nawrat took part in the 36th Days of German-Language Literature in 2012 , where he read the text Entrepreneur and thus won the Kelag Prize endowed with 10,000 euros after missing the main prize in the jump-off.

The title of his novel The Sad Guest (2019) is an allusion to the Goethe quote: “As long as you don't have this, this: Die and Become! Are you just a dreary guest on the dark earth ”. According to world critic Richard Kämmerlings , it is a "meta-novel about the present", the "setting is a very precisely observed Berlin", and the biographically essential things happen in the description of memories.

The writer lives and works in Berlin and is a member of the PEN Center Germany .

Works

Novels

• The two of us alone . Nagel & Kimche, Zurich 2012. ISBN 978-3-312-00497-3 .
• Entrepreneur . Rowohlt Verlag, Reinek near Hamburg 2014. ISBN 978-3-498-04612-5 .
• The many deaths of our grandfather Jurek . Rowohlt Verlag, Reinbek near Hamburg 2015. ISBN 978-3-498-04631-6 .
• The sad guest . Rowohlt Verlag, Reinbek near Hamburg 2019. ISBN 978-3-498-04704-7 .

more publishments

• Rudi's red dog . In: drafts No. 55. Zurich, 2008.
• Szymon . In: Anthology for the Uslar Literature Prize 2010 “German-Polish Borderline Experiences of a Young Generation” . Mitzkat Holzminden Publishing House, Holzminden, 2010.
• Arkadiusz Protasiuk . In: Happy End - The best stories from the MDR literary competition 2011 . Edited by Michael Hametner , New Life Publishing House, Berlin, 2011.
• Pan Tadek . In: poet No. 12. Leipzig, 2012.
• The swarm of mosquitoes - poetological fragments, past the core . In: Full text 2/2012. Vienna, 2012.
• Limit and utopia . In: Writing nomads discover Europe . Edited by Alexander Peer , Limbus Verlag, Innsbruck, 2019.

Awards

• MDR Literature Prize (2011)
• Lit.Cologne Silver Pig Prize (2012)
• Residence grant at the Literary Colloquium Berlin (LCB) (2012)
• Literature Prize of the Canton of Bern (2012)
• Kelag Prize at the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize (2012)
• Heinrich Heine Scholarship Lüneburg (2013)
• Award of the Adelbert von Chamisso Prize (2013)
• Bayern 2 - Word Games Award (2014)
• Longlist at the German Book Prize with Entrepreneur (2014)
• Prize Bremen Literature Price (2016)
• Alfred Döblin Medal of the Academy of Sciences and Literature Mainz (2016)
• European Union Literature Prize for The Sad Guest (2020)

Web links

Commons : Matthias Nawrat  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Matthias Nawrat in the catalog of the German National Library
• Short biography and reviews of works by Matthias Nawrat at perlentaucher.de
• Page about Nawrat at Literaturport.de
• Interview on "Entrepreneurs" / video / 8 min / bookmarks from April 7, 2014 / Bavarian television

supporting documents

1. ↑ Richard Kämmerlings: "How to understand the depressive Berlin of the present" , review in Die Welt on February 5, 2019, accessed February 15, 2019