Peter Gosse (born 6 October 1938 in

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) is a German poet, prose author and essayist.

Life

Peter Gosse first completed a study of

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technology in

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. After working as an engineer, he became a freelance writer in

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from 1968. Since 1985 he has been a lecturer of poetry at the

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in Leipzig, where he became the commissioned Director in 1993. Gosse is a member of the

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and since 2008, deputy President of the Sächsischen Akademie der Künste (Saxon Academy of the Arts).

Works

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Awards

* Heinrich Heine prize of the Ministry for culture of the GDR 1985 *

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of the

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1991

References

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