Marion Poschmann
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Marion Poschmann

Marion Poschmann was born in Essen in 1969 and currently lives in Berlin. Her works of poetry and prose have been honoured many times. Her volume of poetry Geliehene Landschaften was nominated for the Prize of the Leipzig Book Fair 2016. Her novel Die Kieferninseln was shortlisted for the German Book Prize in 2017 and for the International Booker Prize in 2019.

Marion Poschmann was born in Essen in 1969 and currently lives in Berlin. Her works of poetry and prose have been honoured many times. Her volume of poetry Geliehene Landschaften was nominated for the Prize of the Leipzig Book Fair 2016. Her novel Die Kieferninseln was shortlisted for the German Book Prize in 2017 and for the International Booker Prize in 2019.

Awards (selection)
Joseph-Breitbach-Preis 2023
Literaturpreis der Stadt Bremen for Nimbus 2021
WORTMELDUNGEN Prize for Literature 2021
Lyrikpreis Orphil for Nimbus 2020
Hölty-Preis 2020
Berliner Literaturpreis 2018
German Prize for Nature Writing 2017
Düsseldorfer Literaturpreis 2017
Wilhelm-Raabe-Literaturpreis 2013
Peter-Huchel-Preis 2011
Ernst-Meister-Preis 2011
Joseph-Breitbach-Preis 2023
Literaturpreis der Stadt Bremen for Nimbus 2021
WORTMELDUNGEN Prize for Literature 2021
Lyrikpreis Orphil for Nimbus 2020
Hölty-Preis 2020
Berliner Literaturpreis 2018
German Prize for Nature Writing 2017
Düsseldorfer Literaturpreis 2017
Wilhelm-Raabe-Literaturpreis 2013
Peter-Huchel-Preis 2011
Ernst-Meister-Preis 2011

PUBLICATIONS

Chorus of the Erinyes
Year of Publication: 2023
Marion PoschmannYear of Publication: 2023

Her husband left the house in a hurry without further explanation. A friend from childhood days turns up unexpectedly, and her usually reserved mother suddenly wields a mysterious power. Mathilda,...

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Denmark (Forlaget Klara W.)

Collected Poems
Year of Publication: 2022
Jürgen BeckerYear of Publication: 2022
To mark Jürgen Becker’s 90th birthday on July 10, 2022, Suhrkamp presents this collection of all the volumes of poetry published between 1971 and 2022 alongside an extensive...
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Rights available for this compilation

 

Nimbus
Year of Publication: 2020
Marion PoschmannYear of Publication: 2020

Nimbus, the dark cloud, is a manifestation of momentum, splendour, vastness, and yet it belongs to the realm of the amorphous, impalpable. It takes effect, it determines the atmosphere, at the...

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Italy (Del Vecchio)

The Pine Islands
Year of Publication: 2017
Marion PoschmannYear of Publication: 2017

Gilbert Silvester, a lecturer and researcher on beard fashions in film, is in shock. The previous night he dreamt that his wife was cheating on him. In one sudden, irrational act he leaves her,...

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English world rights (Serpent’s Tail), Spanish world rights (Hoja de Lata), Chinese simplex rights (People's Oriental Publishing & Media Co.), Russia (Mann, Ivanov & Ferber), Brazilian Portuguese rights (Estação Liberdade), Portuguese rights (Relogio D'Agua), France (Stock), Italy (Bompiani), Netherlands (Ambo / Anthos),  Sweden (Norstedts), Denmark (Forlaget Klara W.), Norway (Cappelen Damm), Czech Republic (Paseka), Bulgaria (Vakon), Lithuania (Gelmes), Turkey (Harfa), Macedonia (Artkonekt), Montenegro (OFK Doo)

Domestic Rights Sales: German Audiobook (steinbach sprechende bücher)

Borrowed Sceneries
Year of Publication: 2016
Marion PoschmannYear of Publication: 2016

»Borrowed sceneries« are a traditional stylistic element in East Asian garden art. A scenery beyond the gardens, often a mountian or an imposing building, is deliberately included in...

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Italy (Del Vecchio)

Moon Gazing on a Moonless Night
Year of Publication: 2016
Marion PoschmannYear of Publication: 2016
Literature lets us see the moon even when it is not visible. It is the most immaterial of all arts, creating entire worlds out of nothing. It’s amazing. How does it manage to do that? It is the art form that most clearly challenges the imagination. It makes the absent become present, and in doing so, it calls into question what we generally consider to be reality.

This...
Sun Position
Year of Publication: 2013
Marion PoschmannYear of Publication: 2013

»The sun disintegrated.«

Marion Poschmann’s long-awaited new novel is about Germany from the perspective of the grandchildren of war. A novel about the power of time, about memory and...

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Bulgaria (Funtasy)

Seeing Ghosts
Year of Publication: 2010
Marion PoschmannYear of Publication: 2010
In her new volume of poetry Seeing Ghosts, Marion Poschmann approaches the invisible via the visible: the void, time, the reasons and abysses of the ego. In doing so, she exploits the complexity of perception and goes to limits of how far one can advance with the power of imagination. Her lyrical I proceeds to the point of vagueness and observes from there how reality is created and...

DISCOVER

News
02.03.2021
The prize, endowed with 35.000 Euros, is awarded for the fourth time by the Crespo Foundation.
News
16.11.2020
We are pleased to announce that Marion Poschmann has been honoured with the Bremen Literature Prize 2021.
News
19.06.2020
Poet, novelist and essayist Marion Poschmann is awarded the Hölty Prize 2020.