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Clemens Meyer | |
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 Meyer at theLeipzig Book Fair in 2010. | |
| Born | (1977-10-03)3 October 1977 (age 48) Halle an der Saale, Saxony-Anhalt,East Germany |
| Occupation(s) | Author, screenwriter |
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| Website | www |
Clemens Meyer (born 1977) is a German writer.[1] He is the author ofAls wir träumten (As We Were Dreaming, 2006),Die Nacht, die Lichter (All the Lights, 2008),Gewalten (Acts of Violence, 2010),Im Stein (Bricks and Mortar, 2013), andDie stillen Trabanten (Dark Satellites, 2017). Of Meyer's works,All the Lights,Bricks and Mortar, “As We Were Dreaming,” andDark Satellites have been translated into English.
Meyer was born on 20 August 1977 inHalle an der Saale. His studies at theGerman Literature Institute, Leipzig, were interrupted by a spell in a youth detention centre. He worked as a security guard, forklift driver and construction worker before he became a published novelist.[2]
Meyer won a number of prizes for his first novelAls wir träumten (As We Were Dreaming), published in 2006,[2] in which a group of friends grow up and go off the rails in East Germany after the fall of the Berlin Wall. He received theRheingau Literatur Preis in 2006. It has been adapted into a filmAs We Were Dreaming, released in 2015.
His second book,Die Nacht, die Lichter (All the Lights, 2008), was translated by Katy Derbyshire and published by independent London publisherAnd Other Stories in 2011.[3] It won theLeipzig Book Fair Prize in 2008. His third book,Gewalten (Acts of Violence), is a diary of 2009 in eleven stories.
His 2013 novelIm Stein (Bricks and Mortar) was translated by Katy Derbyshire and included in the long list for the International Man Booker Prize.[4] The novel won the prestigious Bremer Literaturpreis in 2014, and was shortlisted for the Deutsche Buchpreis in 2013. The English translation won the "Straelener Übersetzerpreis" of theKunststiftung NRW in 2018[5] and was shortlisted for the 2019Best Translated Book Award.[6]
His third novel,Die Projektoren, was in 2024 also shortlisted for the Deutsche Buchpreis. When he again failed to win, he called the jury "bloody wankers" ("verdammte Wichser") and left the prizegiving ceremony, explaining later that he considered the decision "a shame for literature".[1]
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