Que you Luu
Que Du Luu (* 1973 in Cholon , South Vietnam ) is a German author . She writes novels , short stories and detective novels .
Life
Luu and her parents of Chinese descent fled the Vietnamese Chinatown Cholon in Ho Chi Minh City in 1977 . In 1978, her family first lived in a refugee camp in Thailand for one year . In 1979, the family found refuge as boat refugees in the Federal Republic of Germany and were taken into a refugee home in Unna . Her parents ran a Chinese restaurant in Herford . Luu grew up in Herford, then studied German and philosophy at Bielefeld University and graduated with a master's degree. Luu was influenced literarily by Franz Kafka , Wolfgang Koeppen and Siegfried Lenz , whom she read during her studies.
Que Du Luu lives in Bielefeld .
Awards
In 2007 she was awarded the Adelbert von Chamisso Prize for her first novel Totalschaden . In 2009 she received the sponsorship award of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia for young artists in the writing / poetry category as well as a work grant from the Robert Bosch Foundation . In 2010 she was awarded the Society for the Promotion of Westphalian Cultural Work . In 2015 she received the Hohenems Literature Prize for The Festival of the First Morning . Her youth novel In the Year of the Monkey was awarded the Young Talent Prize for German-language children's and youth literature from the German Academy for Children's and Youth Literature in 2016 and received the Kranichsteiner Youth Literature Scholarship in 2017 .
Publications
- 2006: total loss . Novel. Reclam Leipzig, Stuttgart, ISBN 978-3-379-00838-9
- 2011: Maybe I want everything . Novel. Kiepenheuer & Witsch Cologne, ISBN 978-3-462-04295-5
- 2016: In the year of the monkey . Youth novel. Carlsen Verlag , ISBN 978-3-551-56019-3
Web links
- Author's website
- Literature by and about Que Du Luu in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ↑ GWK -: Laudation for the GWK Award 2010 . Retrieved October 29, 2014
- ↑ Stadtverwaltung Hohenems: Hohenems Literature Prize , March 26, 2015
- ↑ Que Du Luu receives young talent award for children's and youth literature: Sensible Migration History, boersenblatt.net, August 31, 2016, accessed on August 31, 2016
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Luu, Que you |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German-Vietnamese author |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1973 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Cholon , Vietnam |