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Jenny Erpenbeck
Jenny Erpenbeck (born 12 March 1967) is a German writer and opera director, recipient of the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize.
Life.
Born in East Berlin, Erpenbeck is the daughter of the physicist, philosopher and writer John Erpenbeck and the Arabic translator Doris Kilias. Her grandparents are the authors Fritz Erpenbeck and Hedda Zinner. In Berlin she attended an Advanced High School, where she graduated in 1985. She then completed a two-year apprenticeship as a bookbinder before working at several theaters as props
- 2017 Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
Further reading.
- Bartel, Heike and Elizabeth Boa (eds.) "Pushing at Boundaries: Approaches to Contemporary German Women Writers from Karen Duve to Jenny Erpenbeck". Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2006. . Amsterdam
- Wiebke, Eden. "To Express with Words, was Always the Next," in "No Fear of Big Emotions". Frankfurt am Main: Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, 2003. , pp. 13–32 (Jenny Erpenbeck