Olga Grjasnova
Olga Grjasnowa (born November 14, 1984 in Baku , Azerbaijani SSR , USSR , Russian: Ольга Олеговна Грязнова , emphasis: Ólga Olégowna Grjasnówa ) is a German writer . Grjasnowa lives in Berlin .
Life
Olga Grjasnowa was born in Baku, Azerbaijan, to a Russian-Jewish family. There the father worked as a lawyer and the mother as a musician . In 1996 the family moved to Hesse as quota refugees , where Olga learned German at the age of eleven and graduated from school in Friedberg. From 2005 Grjasnowa first studied art history and Slavic studies in Göttingen . However, she then switched to the German Literature Institute in Leipzig to study "Literary Writing", where she obtained her bachelor's degree in 2010 . After studying abroad in Poland , Russia ( Maxim Gorki Literature Institute ) and Israel , she studied dance studies at the Free University of Berlin .
She is a member of the PEN Center Germany and the Goethe Institute.
Olga Grjasnowa is married to the Syrian-born actor Ayham Majid Agha.
Literary career
Grjasnowa was a participant in the “Klagenfurt Literature Course” in 2007. In 2008, she received a scholarship from the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation . In 2010 she visited the Jürgen Ponto writing workshop. In the same year she received the playwright's prize from the “Wiener Wortstätten” for her debut play Compassionate Germans . In 2011 she received the cross-border commuter grant from the Robert Bosch Foundation , and in 2012 the Hermann Lenz grant .
Her debut novel, The Russe is One Who Loves Birch Trees, which appeared in 2012, immediately caused a sensation and was recognized in various feature sections.
Works
- The Russian is one who loves birch trees . Novel. Hanser, Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-446-23854-1 ; dtv, Munich 2013, ISBN 978-3-423-14246-5 .
- The legal fuzziness of a marriage . Novel. Hanser, Munich 2014, ISBN 978-3-446-24598-3 ; dtv, Munich 2016, ISBN 978-3-423-14490-2 .
- God is not shy . Novel. Structure, Berlin 2017, ISBN 978-3-351-03665-2 .
- Privileges . In: Fatma Aydemir , Hengameh Yaghoobifarah (ed.): Your home is our nightmare. Ullstein five , Berlin 2019, ISBN 978-3-961010-36-3
- Audio books
- The Russian is someone who loves birch trees , Hamburg 2012, ISBN 978-3-89903-364-9 .
- The legal uncertainty of a marriage , Hamburg 2014, ISBN 978-3-89903-842-2 .
Prizes and awards
- 2012: Anna Seghers Prize
- 2012: Klaus-Michael Kühne Prize
- 2012: Hermann Lenz scholarship
- 2014: Working grant for writers from the Berlin Senate's cultural administration
- 2015: Chamisso Award
Web links
- Literature by and about Olga Grjasnowa in the catalog of the German National Library
- The Russian is one who loves birch trees . Interview with Olga Grjasnowa (May 4, 2012)
- Short biography and reviews of works by Olga Grjasnowa at perlentaucher.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ In an interview with Dirk Kruse at the Erlanger Poetenfest 2014, Grjasnowa reported that she had meanwhile dropped out of dance studies.
- ↑ Olga Grjasnowa writes a novel about Syrian refugees . ( bz-berlin.de [accessed October 27, 2016]).
- ↑ Olga Grjasnowa: The Russian is one who loves birch trees. Novel. Retrieved July 5, 2020 .
- ^ Book preview of the Aufbau Verlag
- ↑ Hamburger Tagblatt, September 2, 2012
- ↑ Working grants for writers awarded in 2014. Berlin.de, April 16, 2014, accessed April 26, 2014 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Gryaznova, Olga |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German-Azerbaijani writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 14, 1984 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Baku , Azerbaijani SSR , USSR |