Monika Maron | |
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 Monika Maron (2018) | |
| Born | (1941-06-03)3 June 1941 (age 84) Berlin |
| Occupation | author |
| Nationality | German |
Monika Maron (born 3 June 1941 inBerlin) is a German author, formerly of theGerman Democratic Republic.[1]
She moved in 1951 from West to East Berlin with her stepfather,Karl Maron, the GDR Minister of the Interior. She studied theatre and spent time as a directing assistant and as a journalist. In the late 1970s, she began writing full-time in East Berlin. She left the GDR in 1988 with a three-year visa. After living inHamburg,Germany, until 1992, she returned to a reunitedBerlin, where she lives and writes. Her works deal to a large degree with confrontation with the past and explore the threats posed both by memory and isolation. Her prose is sparse, bleak, and lonely, conveying the sensitivity and desperation of her narrators.
Her published work exhibited increasingly conservative political views. In October 2020 she announced that her publishing house had cut ties with her.[2]
In 1992, she was distinguished with the renownedKleist Prize, awarded annually to prominent German authors, and, in 2003, with theFriedrich Hölderlin Prize.[3]
