Susann Pásztor
Susann Pásztor (* 1957 in Soltau ) is a German writer .
life and work
Susann Pásztor is the daughter of a Hungarian father and a German mother. She first studied art and education.
Pásztor became known through her first novel , Ein fabelhafter Lügner (2010), which has been translated into several languages. The plot is inspired by the story of her own Jewish-Hungarian family. Her second novel, Some say love, others say nothing, is the story of a woman in search of great love and was published in 2013. In her third novel, And then one gets up and opens the window (2017), she deals - embedded in the description of a father-son relationship - with the topic of terminal care . After training by the Lazarus-Diakonie Berlin Foundation , Pásztor has been doing voluntary work in the outpatient hospice service since the beginning of the 2010s.
Pásztor lives in Berlin and now works as an illustrator, author and translator.
Awards
In 2012, Pásztor was awarded the Berthold Auerbach Literature Prize for her debut novel . In 2018 she received the Evangelical Book Prize for And then someone gets up and opens the window .
Works
- A marvelous liar. Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 2010, ISBN 978-3-462-04219-1 .
- Some say love, others say nothing. Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 2013, ISBN 978-3-462-04526-0 .
- And then someone gets up and opens the window. 5th edition. Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 2017, ISBN 978-3-462-04870-4 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Susann Pásztor in the catalog of the German National Library
- Pásztor, Susann ( Memento from December 20, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) in the Ehingen library
- Interview: Susann Pásztor. Interview with Pásztor on your publisher's website
- Bettina Piper: In short. A quick note on A Fabulous Liar in Jewish General . March 18, 2010
- Susann Pásztor in an email interview with Isabel Bogdan. April 3, 2013
Individual evidence
- ↑ Employees anniversary: Volunteers in the outpatient Lazarus hospice service - 5 years and more . In: Lazarus-Hospiz-Aktuell . No. 3 , July 2016, p. 4 ( PDF [accessed October 15, 2019]).
- ^ Susann Pásztor. About the author on her publisher's website.
- ↑ Evangelical Book Prize 2018. Evangelisches Literaturportal e. V., accessed on February 28, 2019 .
- ↑ Johannes Weil: Dying Care: Book that does not make you sad. In: pro-medienmagazin.de. May 17, 2018. Retrieved May 17, 2018 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Pásztor, Susann |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1957 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Soltau |