Nora Bossong (born 9 January 1982) is a German writer. She lives in Berlin.
Career
Bossong studied literature at the German Institute for Literature, as well as cultural studies, philosophy and comparative literature at the Humboldt University of Berlin, the University of Potsdam, and the Sapienza University of Rome. She was a 2001 Fellow of the first Wolfenbüttel literature laboratory.
Bossong's poetry and prose have been published in individual newspapers, anthologies and literary journals. In 2006, she published her debut novel. In 2022, she published a non-fiction book about her generation, Die Geschmeidigen: Meine Generation und der neue Ernst des Lebens (The Smooth Ones: My generation and life's new seriousness).
An advocate for democracy, peace and human rights, Bossong was also a member of the presidium of the PEN Centre Germany for two years.
Awards
2001 – Young Authors meeting winner
2001 – Bremer Author scholarship
2003 – Klagenfurt Literature Course
2004 – Leipzig Literature Scholarship
2005 – prose fellowship from the Jürgen Ponto Foundation
2007 – Wolfgang Weyrauch Prize
2007 – Berlin Senate Scholarship
2008 – New York Fellowship in the German House
2010 – Scholarship from the Heinrich-Heine House of Lüneburg
2011 – Berliner Kunstpreis, the Academy of Arts Berlin
2012 – Peter-Huchel-Preis for Sommer vor den Mauern
2017 – Roswitha Prize
2019 – Kranichsteiner Literaturpreis for Gesellschaft mit beschränkter Haftung
2020 – Thomas Mann Prize
Publications
Gegend: Roman, (Area), novel, Frankfurter Verlagsanstalt, 2006, . Reglose Jagd: Gedichte (Motionless hunting), poems, . Location (audio CD), Munich-Spring-Verlag, München 2009. Webers Protokoll (Weber's protocol), novel, Frankfurter Verlagsanstalt, 2009, . Sommer vor den Mauern: Gedichte, (Summer before the walls), poetry, Carl Hanser Verlag, Munich 2011, . Gesellschaft mit beschränkter Haftung (Limited liability company), novel, Hanser, Munich 2012, .
References
External links
"10 Fragen an", Goethe Institut, Juli 2011
1982 births
Living people
Writers from Bremen (city) German women poets 21st-century German novelists German women novelists Humboldt University of Berlin alumni University of Potsdam alumni Sapienza University of Rome alumni 21st-century German poets 21st-century German women writers
