
Senthuran Varatharajah is a
German
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writer of
Tamil
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origin. Born in
Jaffna
Jaffna (, ) is the capital city of the Northern Province of Sri Lanka. It is the administrative headquarters of the Jaffna District located on a peninsula of the same name. With a population of 88,138 in 2012, Jaffna is Sri Lanka's 12th mos ...
, he moved to Germany as a child. He studied in Marburg, Berlin and London. His debut novel ''Vor der Zunahme der Zeichen'' appeared in 2016 and won numerous prizes, among them the 3sat Prize, the Alfred Doblin Fellowship of the Berlin Academy of Arts, the Berlin Senate Fellowship, the Kranichsteiner Literaturförderpreis, the Bremer Literaturförderpreis, the
Chamisso Award and the
Rauris Literatur Prize.
Bio
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category:German male writers
German people of Sri Lankan Tamil descent
Living people
People from Jaffna
Sri Lankan Tamil writers
Year of birth missing (living people)