Martin Mosebach

Martin Mosebach, born in Frankfurt am Main, has lived there as a freelance writer since completing his second State Examination in law. His first novel was published in 1983. He wrote ten novels, most recently Das Blutbuchenfest. He also published poetry, short stories, libretti and essays. He has received numerous awards including the 1999 Heimito von Doderer Literature Prize, the 2002 Kleist Prize, the 2007 Georg Büchner Prize and the 2015 Goethe Plakette of the City of Frankfurt am Main. He is member of the Akademie für Sprache und Dichtung in Darmstadt, of the Akademie der Künste Berlin-Brandenburg and of the Bayrische Akademie der Schönen Künste. He was fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin and the Wissenschaftskolleg Morphomata of the University of Cologne. In 2014 he was fellow at the Deutsche Akademie Villa Massimo in Rome and in 2015 of the C.F. von Siemens-Stiftung in Munich.