Roman Graf

Roman Graf (born April 14, 1978 in Winterthur ) is a Swiss writer .

life and work

Graf completed his training as a forest warden and worked as a disabled person, journalist and editor. He studied media and journalism at the School for Applied Linguistics (SAL) in Zurich and then at the Leipzig Institute of Literature . He published poetry and prose, his texts appeared in the magazines Akzente , Manuscripts and Drafts and in the yearbook of poetry ; He also ran a writing workshop with German language students in Osijek , Croatia. In 2009 Graf's first novel Mr. Blanc was published . He lives as a freelance author in Berlin and Switzerland.

Awards

• 2010: Promotion Prize of the Bremen Literature Prize
• 2009: Mara Cassens Prize
• 2009: Literary award from the city of Zurich
• 2008: Studer / Ganz Prize
• 2008: The Jürgen Ponto Foundation's writing workshop at the Edenkoben mansion
• 2007: Artist in Residence in the Villa Decius , Krakow / Poland 2007
• 2007: Residence grant from the Cultural Foundation of the Free State of Saxony in Edith-Stein-Haus, Breslau / Poland, (May / June)
• 2013: Nomination for the Swiss Book Prize , for decline .

Works

• Mr. Blanc. Novel. Limmat Verlag , Zurich 2009, ISBN 978-3-85791-585-7 . Paperback edition: dtv , Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-423-14028-7 .
• Seduced to wander. Poems. Limmat Verlag, Zurich 2010, ISBN 978-3-85791-611-3 .
• Decline . Novel. Knaus-Verlag , Munich 2013, ISBN 978-3-8135-0566-5 .
• Girls for morris . Novel. Knaus-Verlag , Munich 2016, ISBN 978-3-8135-0571-9 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Roman Graf in the catalog of the German National Library
• Short biography and information on Roman Graf's work at Literaturport
• Short biography and reviews of works by Roman Graf at perlentaucher.de
• www.romangraf.ch Roman Graf's website

Interviews

• Interview with Graf in the Berlin room
• Interview with Graf at "sentinelpoetry"

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Media release by the LiteraturBasel association and the SBVV ( Memento of the original from October 29, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) 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. , September 19, 2013. 
2. ↑ Mountain novel The hiking and the madness: Roman Graf: "Niedergang" , review by Daniel Haas in Deutschlandradio Kultur on January 3, 2014, accessed January 6, 2014