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Lukas Bärfuss | |
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Born | (1971-12-30)30 December 1971 (age 53) Thun, Switzerland |
Occupation | Playwright, novelist |
Language | German |
Nationality | Swiss |
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Lukas Bärfuss (born 30 December 1971) is aSwiss writer and playwright who writes inGerman. He won theGeorg Büchner Prize in 2019.
Born in Thun, Switzerland in 1971, Lukas Bärfuss began training as a bookseller after graduating from high school.[1] In 1998, he co-founded the independent theater group 400asa.[2]
Bärfuss has won theMülheimer Dramatikerpreis in 2005 for the playDer Bus (Das Zeug einer Heiligen), theAnna Seghers-Preis in 2008,[3] theHans Fallada Prize in 2010,[3] theSolothurner Literaturpreis in 2014,[3] theSwiss Book Prize (German:Schweizer Buchpreis) in 2014 forKoala,[4] theNicolas Born Prize in 2015 and theJohann-Peter-Hebel-Preis in 2016.
In 2019, he was awarded theGeorg Büchner Prize for his dramas, novels and essays.[5][4][6] TheDeutsche Akademie für Sprache und Dichtung praised his work, among other things, as being permeated by "a high degree of stylistic certainty and formal richness of variation"[7] that explores "always anew and differently fundamental existential situations of modern life." The prize was awarded in Darmstadt on November 2, 2019.[8] The Georg Büchner Prize is regarded as the most prestigious prize in German literature. Bärfuss was the fourth Swiss to win the Prize and the first Swiss winner in 25 years, the last Swiss winner beingAdolf Muschg in 1994.[9]
Bärfuss has been a member of the Deutsche Akademie für Sprache und Dichtung since early summer 2015.[2][10]
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