Zsuzsa Bánk

Zsuzsa Bánk (October 2006)

Zsuzsa Bánk (born October 24, 1965 in Frankfurt am Main ) is a German writer .

Life

Zsuzsa Bánk was born to Hungarian parents who fled to the West after the Hungarian uprising in 1956. She grew up bilingual , was a bookseller and studied journalism , politics and literature in Mainz and Washington, DC

After graduating, she worked as a business editor . Zsuzsa Bánk has been a freelance writer based in Frankfurt am Main since 2000 .

Awards

• 2002: Aspect Literature Prize
• 2002: Mara Cassens Prize from the Hamburg Literature House for Der Schwimmer
• 2002: Literature Prize of the Jürgen Ponto Foundation
• 2003: German Book Prize
• 2003: Bettina von Arnim Prize for the story among dogs
• 2004: Adelbert von Chamisso Prize
• 2008: 1st prize in the 2007 international short story competition of the city of Mannheim

Works

• The swimmer. Novel. S. Fischer, Frankfurt / Main 2002, TB 2004, ISBN 3-596-15248-8 .
• Hottest summer. Stories. S. Fischer, Frankfurt / Main 2005, ISBN 3-10-005221-8 .
• The bright days . Novel. S. Fischer, Frankfurt / Main 2011, ISBN 978-3-10-005222-3 .
• Black Forest Sepp. Also a Christmas story. Hansisches Druck- und Verlagshaus / edition chrismon, Frankfurt / Main 2012, ISBN 978-3-86921-102-2 .
• We'll sleep later . Novel. S. Fischer, Frankfurt / Main 2017, ISBN 978-3-10-005224-7 .
• Christmas house . edition chrismon, Leipzig 2018, ISBN 978-3960381518 .

literature

• Christof Hamann : I can wait, yes. Space and time in Zsuzsa Bánk's novel “The Swimmer”. In: Petra Meurer, Martina Ölke and Sabine Wilmes (eds.): Intercultural learning. With articles on German and DaF lessons, on images of 'migrants' in the media and on texts by Özdamar, Trojanow and Zaimoglu. Aisthesis Verlag, Bielefeld 2009, ISBN 978-3-89528-748-0 , pp. 19-34. contents
• Szilvia Lengl: Intercultural aspects in Zsuzsa Bánks Der Schwimmer , in: Intercultural female characters in the German-language novel of the present. Aspects of intercultural literature and women's literature in the works of Terézia Mora, Zsuzsa Bánk and Aglaja Veteranyi compared to the works of Nella Larsen and Gloria E. Anzaldúa. Thelem, Dresden 2012 (= work on recent German literature 24), ISBN 978-3-942411-41-7 , pp. 135–198. contents
• Zsuzsa Bánk , in: Internationales Biographisches Archiv 30/2011 from July 26, 2011, in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely available)

Web links

• Literature by and about Zsuzsa Bánk in the catalog of the German National Library
• Short biography and reviews of works by Zsuzsa Bánk at perlentaucher.de
• Zsuzsa Bánk in conversation with her editor on the Fischer Verlag website