Pierre Jarawan

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In 2016, Pierre Jarawan reads from his novel "In the end the cedars remain" on the wordplay .

Pierre Jarawan (* 1985 in Amman , Jordan ) is a German writer and slam poet . He lives in Munich .

Life

Pierre Jarawan is an author, stage writer, presenter and freelance photographer. He was born in 1985 to a Lebanese father and a German mother in Amman, Jordan, after his parents left Lebanon because of the civil war . He came to Germany at the age of three and grew up in Kirchheim unter Teck near Stuttgart . He completed a BA in German and English before going to the Munich University of Television and Film in 2010 for a postgraduate course in film, theater and television criticism .

From 2009 on, Pierre Jarawan appeared in poetry slams , where he won various prizes. In 2012 he became an international German-speaking master in the poetry slam. He is one of the most successful stage poets in German-speaking countries. In 2013 he took part in the World Poetry Slam Championships in Paris.

First, Jarawan published his stage texts, then in 2016 the novel At the end of the cedar , which was funded by the City of Munich's literature grant in 2015 and for which he received the Bavarian Art Prize in 2016 . The novel was also nominated for the € 10,000 Ulla Hahn Author Award . His debut novel was awarded the AZ literary star of the year and presented as the best German-language debut at the Festival du Premier Roman in Chambéry. In his debut novel, Pierre Jarawan describes the boy Samir's search for his missing father in Lebanon. The book is now an international bestseller, translated into many languages. In the spring of 2020, his second novel, A Song for the Missing, was published . This work was funded with a working grant from the Free State of Bavaria.

Literature prizes

  • 2015 Literature grant from the City of Munich for the novel "In the end the cedars remain"
  • 2016 Bavarian Art Prize for "In the end the cedars remain"
  • 2016 AZ literary star of the year
  • 2018 literature scholarship from the Free State of Bavaria

Poetry Slam Awards

  • 2011 Baden-Württemberg state championship
  • 2012 International German-speaking Master

Works (selection)

  • With Dominik Bartels: Something is rotten in the state . Poetry slam and stage reading texts on the state of the nation, Blaulicht Verlag, Helmstedt 2011
  • It's normal to be different . Lektora-Verlag, Paderborn 2011
  • In the end the cedars remain , Roman. Berlin Verlag, Berlin 2016
  • A song for the missing, novel. Berlin Verlag, Berlin 2020

Web links

Commons : Pierre Jarawan  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.pierrejarawan.de/
  2. ↑ a b Ingold Zeisberger: Pierre Jarawan. In: Literaturportal Bayern. Accessed April 10, 2020 (German).
  3. ↑ Poetry Slam Championship 2012 "Pierre Jarawan - Finale". In: YouTube. February 2, 2013, accessed March 2, 2020 .
  4. ↑ http://www.berlinverlag.de/buecher/am-ende-bleiben-die-zedern-isbn-978-3-8270-1302-6
  5. ↑ Press release on the award of the Munich Literature Fellowship 2015. Accessed on July 22, 2016 .
  6. ↑ Announcement of the 2016 Art Prize Winners. Accessed July 22, 2016 .
  7. ↑ Announcement of the nominees for the Ulla Hahn Author Award 2016. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on July 22, 2016 ; Retrieved July 22, 2016 . 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ullahahnhaus.info
  8. ↑ Sergio Palumbo: Festival du premier roman 2017 de Chambéry. In: 123 Savoie. April 27, 2017, accessed on March 2, 2020 (Fri-FR).
  9. ↑ Pierre Jarawan Books & Biography | PIPER. Retrieved February 10, 2020 .
  10. ↑ Pierre Jarawan receives a working grant from the Free State of Bavaria. In: Piper. July 2, 2018, accessed March 27, 2020 .
  11. ↑ Abendzeitung, Germany: Award of the Abendzeitung: Our best! - These are the AZ stars of the year - Abendzeitung München . ( Abendzeitung-muenchen.de [accessed on February 9, 2017]).
  12. ↑ Three novels, two poetry. (No longer available online.) Literaturportal Bayern, June 28, 2018, archived from the original on June 30, 2018 ; accessed on June 29, 2018 . 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.literaturportal-bayern.de
personal data
SURNAME Jarawan, Pierre
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer and slam poet
DATE OF BIRTH 1985
PLACE OF BIRTH Amman , Jordan