Terézia Mora (; born 5 February 1971) is a Hungarian writer, screenwriter and translator.

Early life and education

Terézia Mora was born in

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, to a family with German roots and grew up bilingual. She moved to Germany after the political changes in Hungary in 1990 in order to study Hungarian studies and drama at the

Humboldt University Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (german: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, abbreviated HU Berlin) is a German public research university in the central borough of Mitte in Berlin. It was established by Frederick William III on the initiati ...

in Berlin. Subsequently she trained as a screenwriter at the

Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin The Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin (DFFB, German Film and Television Academy Berlin) is a film school in Berlin, Germany. In the German film school ranking of FOCUS (Issue 22/2006), the dffb - together with the Academy of Media Arts Co ...

Career

Mora is working on a trilogy about the IT specialist Darius Kopp, of which band I "The Only Man on the Continent" and Volume II "The Monster" have already appeared. She is a member of the German PEN Center and the

Deutsche Akademie für Sprache und Dichtung The Deutsche Akademie für Sprache und Dichtung (in English German Academy for Language and Literature) was founded on 28 August 1949, on the 200th birthday of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, in the Paulskirche in Frankfurt. It is seated in Darmstadt, ...

, whom she was elected by as a member in 2015. Since 1990 she has lived in Berlin, working as a freelance writer, writing in German. Mora is married and has one daughter.

Awards and honours

* 1997: Würth Literature Prize for her screenplay The Ways of Water in Erzincan and the Open-Mike-Literary Prize of the Berliner LiteraturWERKstatt for the tale Durst * 1999:

Ingeborg Bachmann Prize The Festival of German-Language Literature (german: Tage der deutschsprachigen Literatur, links=no) is a literary event which takes place annually in Klagenfurt, Austria. During this major literary festival which lasts for several days a number of ...

for the narration ''Der Fall Ophelia'' (The case of Ophelia), contained in her first volume of stories ''Seltsame Materie'' (Strange Matter) * 2000:

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 ...

(promotional prize) * 2001: Island writer on Sylt * 2002: Jane Scraberd Prize of the Heinrich Maria Ledig-Rowohlt Foundation for her translation of Péter Esterházy's Harmonia Caelesti * 2004: Mara Cassens Prize, Prize for the Art Prize of the Academy of Arts (Berlin), Prize of the Leipzig Book Fair for her novel Alle Tage ( Fiction) * 2005: Prize of LiteraTour Nord * 2006:

Villa Massimo Villa Massimo, short for Deutsche Akademie Rom Villa Massimo ( it, Accademia Tedesca Roma Villa Massimo), is a German cultural institution in Rome, established in 1910 and located in the Villa Massimo. The fellowship of the German Academy in Rom ...

scholarship * 2006/2007: Tübingen Poetry Lecturer together with

Péter Esterházy Péter Esterházy (14 April 1950 – 14 July 2016) was a Hungarian writer. He was one of the best known Hungarian and Central European writers of his era. He has been called a "leading figure of 20th century Hungarian literature", his books being ...

* 2007:

Franz Nabl Prize The Franz Nabl Prize is an biennial Austrian literature award. The prize was first awarded in 1975 by the city of Graz. The prize money is €14,500 (since 2019: €15,000). It is awarded as part of a jury meeting in cooperation with the at the ...

* 2010:

Erich Fried Prize The Erich Fried Prize (german: Erich-Fried-Preis) is a literary prize in honour of the Austrian poet Erich Fried, and is awarded annually by the for Literature and Language, based in Vienna. The value of the prize, endowed by the office of the Cha ...

* 2011: Translation Prize of the Kunststiftung NRW for her translation by Péter Esterházy's A production novel (two production novels) from the Hungarian and at the same time for her life's work * 2011: "Grenzgänger-Scholarship" by the Robert Bosch Foundation for research on The Monster2013: German Book Prize for The Monster * October 2013:

German Book Prize The German Book Prize (''Deutscher Buchpreis'') is awarded annually, in October, by the German Publishers and Booksellers Association (''Börsenverein des Deutschen Buchhandels'') to the best new German language novel of the year. The books, publ ...

for her novel ''Das Ungeheuer'' * 2013/2014: Frankfurt Poetics Lecturer * 2017: Bremen Literature Prize for ''Love Among Aliens'' * 2017: Preis der Literaturhäuser * 2017:

Solothurner Literaturpreis The Solothurner Literaturpreis is a literary award for a literary achievement by a German language writer. Awarded since 1994, the annual prize is 15,000 Swiss francs. It is named after the city of Solothurn in Switzerland. Winners *1994: Mon ...

* 2018: Roswitha Prize * 2018:

Georg Büchner Prize The Georg Büchner Prize (german: link=no, Georg-Büchner-Preis) is the most important literary prize for German language literature, along with the Goethe Prize. The award is named after dramatist and writer Georg Büchner, author of '' Woyzeck ...

* 2021: Cross of the

Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany The Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany (german: Verdienstorden der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, or , BVO) is the only federal decoration of Germany. It is awarded for special achievements in political, economic, cultural, intellect ...

On 3 July 2018, it was announced by the

German Academy for Language and Literature German(s) may refer to: * Germany (of or related to) ** Germania (historical use) * Germans, citizens of Germany, people of German ancestry, or native speakers of the German language ** For citizens of Germany, see also German nationality law **Ge ...

that she will be presented the Georg Büchner Prize, one of Germany's highest literary honors, at a ceremony in October 2018. The prize comes with an award of 50,000 euros.

Works

Prose

* Strange matter, Rowohlt Verlag, Reinbek 1999, * Alle Tage, Luchterhand Literaturverlag, Munich 2004, * The only man on the continent, Luchterhand Literaturverlag, Munich 2009, * The monster, Luchterhand Literaturverlag, Munich 2013, * Love among aliens, narratives. Luchterhand Literaturverlag, Munich 2016,

Poetry lectures

* Do not die, Luchterhand Literaturverlag, Munich 2015, * The secret text. Salzburger Stefan branch Poetikvorlesung, special number publishing house, Vienna 2016,

Screenplays

* The Ways of Water in Erzincan, feature film, 30 min. (1998) * Boomtown / End of the City, feature film, 30 min. (1999) * The Alibi, screenplay for a thriller shown in German TV, 90 min. (2000)

Plays

* Something like that (2003)

Audiobooks

* Miss June Ruby (2005)

Essays

* About the drastic, in: BELLA triste No. 16 (2006)

Translations

* ''Als nur die Tiere lebten'' (2014), translation of ''Amikor még csak az állatok éltek'', (2012), by

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. * ''Abendschule – Ein Fibel für Erwachsene'' (2012), translation of ''Esti iskola – Olvasókönyv felnőtteknek'', (2007), by Zsófia Bán

References

External links

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Terézia Mora
{{DEFAULTSORT:Mora, Terezia 20th-century Hungarian novelists Hungarian writers in German 1971 births Living people Ingeborg Bachmann Prize winners Members of the Academy of Arts, Berlin 20th-century Hungarian women writers German Book Prize winners Georg Büchner Prize winners 21st-century Hungarian novelists 21st-century Hungarian women writers Hungarian women novelists Hungarian screenwriters Hungarian essayists Recipients of the Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany