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Ricarda Junge (* 1979 in Wiesbaden ) is a German writer .
Life
Ricarda Junge was born in Wiesbaden in 1979. After a long stay in the USA , she first studied law and then at the
German Literature Institute in Leipzig . After graduating, she studied Protestant theology in Frankfurt am Main . For her debut Silberfaden she was awarded the Grimmelshausen Prize in 2003. In 2005, her novel No Foreign Land was published . This was followed by the novels Eine Schöne Geschichte (2008) and Die Komische Frau (2010). Her latest novel, The Last Warm Days , was published in August 2014 . For her work she received u. a. the work grant of the German Literature Fund e. V. and was a scholarship holder of the Literarisches Colloquium Berlin and in the artist village Schöppingen . In addition to her literary work, Ricarda Junge wrote columns a. a. for the Frankfurter Rundschau and Hörzu and gives writing seminars a. a. for the START program of the Hertie Foundation and the literature forum in the Mousonturm (Frankfurt a. M.).
Ricarda Junge lives with her family in Berlin and Frankfurt am Main.
Works
- The last warm days . Novel. Frankfurt am Main: S. Fischer , 2014 ISBN 978-3-10-002218-9 .
- The strange woman. Novel. Frankfurt am Main: S. Fischer, 2010 ISBN 978-3-10-039329-6
- Nice story. Novel. Frankfurt / M .: S. Fischer, 2008. ISBN 978-3-10-039328-9
- Not a foreign country . Novel. Frankfurt am Main: S. Fischer, 2005. ISBN 3-10-039325-2
- Silver thread . Stories. Frankfurt am Main: S. Fischer, 2002. ISBN 3-596-15476-6
Scattered publications
- Anger - varieties of a great feeling. Texts from Homer to Thomas Mann . Edited by Ricarda Junge, S. Fischer, Frankfurt a. M., 2014
- Between Kassel and the Kurpark . In: Eroded and cut through . Edited by Joachim Helfer and Klaus Wettig , Steidl Verlag , Göttingen 2013
- Three counts . In: An extra splendid sea summer evening . Edited by Jan Christophersen , Mareverlag, Hamburg 2013
- Stalinhusen . Ricarda Junge, Thoren & Lindskog, Malmö 2011
- Island dreams . In: News from home . Edited by Petra Gropp, Jürgen Hosemann , Oliver Vogel, Günther Opitz. S. Fischer, Frankfurt 2004
- Barenberg . In: 20 under 30. Young German authors . Edited by Martin Brinkmann and Werner Loch-Lawrence, DVA , Stuttgart / Munich 2002
- Interview: start with questions . In: Bella triste No. 14, Hildesheim 2006
Awards
- 1999: Prize of the Young Literature Forum Hessen-Thuringia
- 2003: Grimmelshausen Prize for Silver Thread
- 2004: George Konell Prize of the State Capital Wiesbaden
- 2005: Residency at the Literarisches Colloquium Berlin
- 2006: Scholarship from the German Literature Fund
- 2008: Working grant from the Prussian Sea Handling Foundation Berlin
- 2010: Schöppingen Artist Village Scholarship
- 2011: Scholarship Chateau d'Orion, France
- 2013: Robert Gernhardt Prize with Paulus Böhmer
Web links
- Ricarda Junge at S. FISCHER Verlag GmbH
- Literature by and about Ricarda Junge in the catalog of the German National Library
- Short biography and reviews of works by Ricarda Junge at perlentaucher.de
- Interview with the author (Deutschlandfunk, October 23, 2002)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Those who do not defend themselves must not complain afterwards in FAZ of November 29, 2014, page L4.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Boy, Ricarda |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1979 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Wiesbaden |