Natascha Wodin (born 8 December 1945) is a German writer of Ukrainian origin. She was born in Fürth, Bavaria in 1945 to parents who had been forced labourers under the Nazi regime. She grew up in a camp for displaced persons. Following her mother's suicide, she was raised in a Catholic home for girls. She worked as a telephone operator and stenographer before becoming an interpreter and translator of Russian in the early 1970s.
Wodin has translated literary works from Russian into German and has lived in Moscow. She has written novels, short stories and poetry, and has won many prizes, including the Adelbert-von-Chamisso Prize in 1998, the Brothers Grimm Prize of the City of Hanau in 1989 and 2009, the Alfred Döblin Prize in 2015 and the Leipzig Book Fair Prize in 2017 for Sie kam aus Mariupol, one of her best known books. Her book Irgendwo in diesem Dunkel is a memoir of her father.
She was married to the novelist Wolfgang Hilbig, an experience which she recounts in her book Nachtgeschwister. She has lived in Berlin and Mecklenburg since 1984.
Works
Die gläserne Stadt. Rowohlt, Reinbek 1983. . Reissue: Die gläserne Stadt. ars vivendi verlag, Cadolzburg 2020. . Nadja: Briefe aus Russland. editor, translator and introduction by Natascha Wodin. Nishen, Kreuzberg 1984. . Das Sprachverlies. poems. Rowohlt, Reinbek 1987. . Einmal lebt ich. DTV, München 1989. . Sergej. Griechisches Tagebuch. Büchergilde Gutenberg, 1993. Erfindung einer Liebe. Reclam, Leipzig 1993. . Die Ehe. Kiepenheuer, Leipzig 1997. . Das Singen der Fische. Kiepenheuer, Leipzig 2001. . Nachtgeschwister. Kunstmann, München 2009. . Alter, fremdes Land. Jung und Jung, Salzburg/Wien 2014. . . Rowohlt, Reinbek 2017. . Irgendwo in diesem Dunkel. Rowohlt, Reinbek 2018. . Nastjas Tränen. Rowohlt Hamburg 2021. .
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