Verena Boos

Verena Boos at the Frankfurt Book Fair 2017

Verena Boos (* 1977 in Rottweil ) is a German writer .

Life

She studied English, history and sociology at the Universities of Konstanz, Bologna and Glasgow. In 2005 she received her PhD from the European University Institute in Florence with a thesis on national identities and interests in Scotland and Catalonia.

Services

In 2011 she was a scholarship holder of the Klagenfurt literature course and in the following year the writing workshop of the Jürgen Ponto Foundation . In 2012 she reached the finals at the Open Mike of the Literaturwerkstatt Berlin and was selected in 2012/2013 and 2016/2017 for the Bavarian Academy of Writing in the Literaturhaus Munich .

Her debut novel Blutorangen was published in 2015 by Aufbau-Verlag Berlin and was awarded the Grimmelshausen Prize of the City of Gelnhausen , the Debut Prize of the Buddenbrookhaus in Lübeck and the Mara Cassens Prize for the best literary debut of 2015. The novel tells the story of a German-Spanish family over three generations and addresses the involvement of the Franquists in the war of the German Empire against the Soviet Union and the coming to terms with the history of the republican victims of Franquism. In May 2017 the translations into Spanish and Catalan were published as Naranjas de Sangre by Plataforma Editorial and Taronges de Sang by Bromera.

In 2016 she received a scholarship from the Hessian Literature Council in Aquitaine and invited to the Festival du Premier Roman in Chambery.

In 2017 she worked as a scholarship holder of the international exchange program "Memory Work" of the Federal Foundation for the Coming to terms with the SED dictatorship in Madrid at the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (Spanish National Research Council), Institute for Language, Literature and Anthropology . She is a member of the Frankfurt Memory Studies Platform at the University of Frankfurt.

Her second novel, Kirchberg , was published in September 2017 by Aufbau-Verlag Berlin and is about a woman who loses her language and returns to the village of her childhood and youth.

Works

• Bypassing regional identity: a study of identifications and interests in Scottish and Catalan press commentary on European integration, 1973–1993 . Florence 2005.
• Blood oranges. Novel . Aufbau-Verlag, Berlin 2015. ISBN 978-3-351-03594-5
• Kirchberg. Novel . Aufbau-Verlag, Berlin 2017. ISBN 978-3-351-03690-4
• Follow up. A search for traces on Walter Benjamin's last escape route , in: Zeithistorische Forschungen 15 (2018), pp. 523-538.

Web links

• Author's website
• Verena Boos at Aufbau-Verlag
• blutorangen.com Website for the novel "Blutorangen"

Individual evidence

1. ↑ European University Institute: Record No. b1324350 ~ S5. Retrieved March 18, 2016 . 
2. ^ Klagenfurt: 15th Klagenfurt Literature Course. (No longer available online.) May 16, 2011, archived from the original on March 24, 2016 ; accessed on March 18, 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.  
3. ↑ Literaturwerkstatt Berlin: Participants 20. open mike 2012. Accessed on March 18, 2016 . 
4. ^ Literaturhaus Munich: Bavarian Academy of Writing: Novels. Retrieved March 18, 2016 . 
5. ^ Gelnhausen: Grimmelshausen Prize 2015 for writer Robert Seethaler. Retrieved March 18, 2016 . 
6. ^ Buddenbrookhaus: Debut in the Buddenbrookhaus 2014/2015. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on March 22, 2016 ; accessed on March 18, 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.  
7. ↑ Naranjas de sangre - Plataforma Editorial . ( plataformaeditorial.com [accessed June 16, 2017]).
8. ^ Hessischer Literaturrat: List of scholarship holders in alphabetical order. Retrieved March 18, 2016 . 
9. ↑ The Festival du premier roman in Chambéry: 30 years of literary discoveries by talented readers! | Drupal. Retrieved June 16, 2017 (French). 
10. ↑ Federal Foundation for the Processing of the SED Dictatorship: Federal Foundation for the Processing of the SED Dictatorship | Promotion | International exchange program "Memory Work". Retrieved June 16, 2017 . 
11. ↑ Verena Boos |. Retrieved June 16, 2017 . 
12. ↑ Verena Boos: Kirchberg . 1st edition. Structure, Berlin 2017, ISBN 978-3-351-03690-4 , pp. 366 .