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Meyer was born in 1977 in Halle an der Saale. His studies at the German Literature Institute, Leipzig, were interrupted by a spell in a youth detention centre. He worked as a security guard, forklift driver and construction worker before he became a published novelist.<ref name=hamburgerabendblatt/> |
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Clemens Meyer (born 1977 in Halle an der Saale, then East Germany) is a German writer.[1] He is the author of Als wir träumten (As We Were Dreaming, 2006), Die Nacht, die Lichter (All the Lights, 2008), and Gewalten (Acts of Violence, 2010). All the Lights was translated into English and published by And Other Stories in 2011.
Life
Meyer was born in 1977 in Halle an der Saale. His studies at the German Literature Institute, Leipzig, were interrupted by a spell in a youth detention centre. He worked as a security guard, forklift driver and construction worker before he became a published novelist.[2]
Work
Meyer won a number of prizes for his first novel Als wir träumten (As We Were Dreaming), published in 2006,[2] in which a group of friends grow up and go off the rails in East Germany after the fall of the Berlin Wall. He received the Rheingau Literatur Preis in 2006.
His second book, Die Nacht, die Lichter (All the Lights, 2008), was translated by Katy Derbyshire and published by independent London publisher And Other Stories in 2011.[3] It won the Leipzig Book Fair Prize in 2008.
Since then he has published his third book, Gewalten (Acts of Violence), a diary of 2009 in eleven stories.
Awards
- Winner of the Leipzig Book Fair Prize 2008.
Bibliography
Novels
- All the Lights trans. Katy Derbyshire. London: And Other Stories, 2011. IBSN: 9781908276018.
- Die Nacht, die Lichter (All the Lights, 2008).
- Als wir träumten (As We Were Dreaming, 2006).
Short Story Collections
- Gewalten (Acts of Violence, 2010).
References
- ^ Clemens Meyer's website Retrieved 23 January 2013
- ^ a b "Wenderoman aus der Zweiraumwohnung". Hamburger Abendblatt. 11 January 2007. Retrieved 19 June 2011.
- ^ And Other Stories Retrieved 23 January 2013
External Links
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