Marjana Michailowna Gaponenko (; born 6 September 1981) is a
German
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writer born in
Odesa
Odesa (also spelled Odessa) is the third most populous city and municipality in Ukraine and a major seaport and transport hub located in the south-west of the country, on the northwestern shore of the Black Sea. The city is also the administrati ...
, Ukraine.
Life
Marjana Gaponenko spent her childhood and youth in Odessa. After leaving school, she studied German at the
University of Odessa
Odesa I. I. Mechnykov National University ( uk, Одеський національний університет Iмені І. І. Мечникова, translit=Odeskyi natsionalnyi universytet imeni I. I. Mechnykova), located in Odesa, Ukraine, i ...
and started to write poems and publish. In Germany she was initially promoted by Erik Martin in
Muschelhaufen
''Muschelhaufen'' (heap of shells) is a German annual, originally combining literature and graphic arts. It was founded by Erik Martin from Viersen in 1969 and published - with an interruption of 11 years - until 2008, when the last issue came ...
, and she became known to a wider circle of readers. In 2000, she made her debut with the poetry collection ''How tearless knights.'' In 2001 she was one of the candidates for the title " Author of the Year" magazine
Deutsche Sprachwelt. in 2010 published the first novel, Annushka flower, the Residenz Verlag. Poems have been translated into English, French, Italian, Polish, Romanian and Turkish. She is a member of the Author Forum'' The Golden Fish''.
In her novel ''Who is Martha ?'' (2012), two old men spend their last days in a posh Vienna Hotel and wait for death. "As amazing as the young
uthor ", Volker Hage wrote in
Der Spiegel
''Der Spiegel'' (, lit. ''"The Mirror"'') is a German weekly news magazine published in Hamburg. With a weekly circulation of 695,100 copies, it was the largest such publication in Europe in 2011. It was founded in 1947 by John Seymour Chaloner ...
, "also her novel ''Jubilee of the creation and its wonders'' is full of joie de vivre, also when it comes to last things". The Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung considers that the author with the work that was awarded the
Adelbert von Chamisso Prize The Adelbert von Chamisso Prize (German ''Adelbert-von-Chamisso-Preis'') was a German literary award established in 1985, given to a work whose author's mother tongue is not German, as was the case for Adelbert von Chamisso. It was offered by the R ...
, " created with Luka Lewadski a quirky and idiosyncratic character like from a story by
Isaac Babel
Isaac Emmanuilovich Babel (russian: Исаак Эммануилович Бабель, p=ˈbabʲɪlʲ; – 27 January 1940) was a Russian writer, journalist, playwright, and literary translator. He is best known as the author of ''Red Cavalry'' ...
asa childish old man, whose last gasp finds against death expression in a language that balances the oscillation of waking and dream, of melancholic nostalgia and hunger for life."
Works
* ''Wie tränenlose Ritter''. Gedichte, 2000, .
* ''Tanz vor dem Gewitter''. Gedichte, 2001.
* ''Freund.'' Gedichte, 2002.
* ''Prieten'' (Rumänisch von Daniel Pop), 2003.
* ''Reise in die Ferne'', 2003.
* ''Die Löwenschule. Eine wahre Geschichte für Kinder und Erwachsene'', 2008, .
* ''Nachtflug''. Gedichte, 2007, .
* ''Annuschka Blume''. Roman, 2010, .
* ''Wer ist Martha?''. Roman. Suhrkamp, Berlin 2012, .
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* ''Strohhalm in Luzifers Schweif''. Erzählungen, edition miromente, 2015, .
Anthologies
*
Theo Breuer
Theo Breuer (born 30 March 1956) is a German poet, essayist, editor, translator and publisher.
Life and work
Theo Breuer was born in Bürvenich, North Rhine-Westphalia, West Germany and educated at Cologne University where he studied German ...
(Hg.): ''NordWestSüdOst. Gedichte von Zeitgenossen'', 2003.
* Daniela Egger (Hg.): ''Austern im Schnee und andere Sommergeschichten. Eine literarische Landkarte von Lech und Zürs''. 2008.
* Shafiq Naz (Hg.): ''Der deutsche Lyrikkalender. Jeder Tag ein Gedicht'', 2009.
* Christoph Buchwald und Uljana Wolf (Hg.): ''Jahrbuch der Lyrik'', 2009.
* Axel Kutsch (Hg.): ''Versnetze'', ''Versnetze_zwei'', ''Versnetze_drei''. Deutschsprachige Lyrik, 2008, 2009, 2010.
Awards
* 2001: Autor des Jahres 2001 (Deutsche Sprachwelt).
* 2001: Literaturstipendium des Künstlerdorf Schöppingens
* 2009: Frau Ava Literaturpreis
* 2013:
Adelbert-von-Chamisso-PreisMarjana Gaponenko erhält Chamisso-Preis
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* 2013 Literaturpreis Alpha
References
External links
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Webseite der Schriftstellerin
https://web.archive.org/web/20150917014207/http://www.new-books-in-german.com/english/401/225/225/129002/design1.html Review in ''New Books in German'
''Der gute Satan''.
https://web.archive.org/web/20160304073649/http://www.der-goldene-fisch.de/gf.php/texte/zeit/29 Gedichtzyklus ]
Gaponenko beim Literaturfestival Berlin
Gaponenko im Ulmer Tagebuch
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1981 births
21st-century Ukrainian women writers
21st-century novelists
Ukrainian writers in German
Ukrainian women novelists
Living people
Writers from Odesa