Dana Vowinckel
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Dana Vowinckel
Dana Vowinckel was born in Berlin in 1996 into an American-Jewish-German family. She grew up bilingually and bi-culturally between Chicago and Berlin, and studied linguistics and literature in Berlin, Toulouse and Cambridge. At the 2021 Ingeborg Bachmann Competition, she was awarded a prize for an excerpt from The World in a Ziplock Bag, her debut novel. Today, Dana Vowinckel lives in Berlin.
Dana Vowinckel was born in Berlin in 1996 into an American-Jewish-German family. She grew up bilingually and bi-culturally between Chicago and Berlin, and studied linguistics and literature in Berlin, Toulouse and Cambridge. At the 2021 Ingeborg Bachmann Competition, she was awarded a prize for an excerpt from The World in a Ziplock Bag, her debut novel. Today, Dana Vowinckel lives in Berlin.
Awards (selection)
Winner of the Literature Prize of the Kulturkreis der deutschen Wirtschaft »Text & Sprache« 2024
Shortlisted for the Prize of the Leipzig Book Fair 2024
Mara-Cassens-Preis 2023
Shortlisted for the Prize of the Leipzig Book Fair 2024
Mara-Cassens-Preis 2023
Winner of the Literature Prize of the Kulturkreis der deutschen Wirtschaft »Text & Sprache« 2024
Shortlisted for the Prize of the Leipzig Book Fair 2024
Mara-Cassens-Preis 2023
Shortlisted for the Prize of the Leipzig Book Fair 2024
Mara-Cassens-Preis 2023
PUBLICATIONS
Latest first
Year of Publication: 2023
Dana VowinckelYear of Publication: 2023
The World in a Ziplock Bag
A summer travelling between Berlin, Chicago and Jerusalem. Like every year, fifteen-year-old Margarita spends her school holidays with her grandparents in the USA. But she would much rather go...
Rights sold to:
English world rights (HarperVia), Denmark (Lindhardt & Ringhof), Norway (Pax)
Domestic Rights Sales: German Audiobook (DAV)
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News
Ariane Koch, Deniz Utlu and Dana Vowinckel Longlisted for the »Text & Sprache« Prize 2024
Ariane Koch is longlisted for Kranke Hunde, Deniz Utlu for Father's Sea, and Dana Vowinckel for The World in a Ziplock Bag .News
Dana Vowinckel and Julia Jost Shortlisted for the Literaturpreis Fulda 2024
The World in a Ziplock Bag and Hide and Seek are among the nine finalists.News