Marica Bodrožić

Marica Bodrožić (born 1973) is žića German writer of Croatian descent. She was born in in Cista Provo, Croatia in the former Yugoslavia. She moved to Germany as a child and currently lives in Berlin.

Bodrožić writes primarily in the German language. She is fluent in multiple genres, including essays, novels, poems, and stories. She has worked as a literary translator and a teacher of creative writing. One of her best known works is the novel Kirschholz und alte Gefühle (A Cherrywood Table) which received the EU Prize for Literature. The novel has been translated into Italian by Stefano Zangrando for Mimesis (2017).

In 2017, Marica Bodrožić signed the Declaration on the Common Language of the Croats, Serbs, Bosniaks and Montenegrins.

Works

Italian translations

Awards

Bodrožić's awards include: 2013 Kranichsteiner Literaturpreis 2015 European Union Prize for Literature 2015 Literaturpreis der Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung 2021 2022 , Dresden

Memberships

PEN Centre Germany

References

Further reading

External links

1973 births

Living people

Croatian women writers

20th-century German women writers

20th-century Croatian women writers

21st-century German women writers

21st-century Croatian women writers

20th-century German writers

20th-century Croatian writers

21st-century German writers

21st-century Croatian writers

Signatories of the Declaration on the Common Language