Silke Scheuermann (born 15 June 1973, in

Karlsruhe Karlsruhe ( , , ; South Franconian German, South Franconian: ''Kallsruh'') is the List of cities in Baden-Württemberg by population, third-largest city of the German States of Germany, state (''Land'') of Baden-Württemberg after its capital o ...

) is a German poet and novelist. She was educated in

Frankfurt Frankfurt, officially Frankfurt am Main (; Hessian: , " Frank ford on the Main"), is the most populous city in the German state of Hesse. Its 791,000 inhabitants as of 2022 make it the fifth-most populous city in Germany. Located on its ...

Leipzig Leipzig ( , ; Upper Saxon: ) is the most populous city in the German state of Saxony. Leipzig's population of 605,407 inhabitants (1.1 million in the larger urban zone) as of 2021 places the city as Germany's eighth most populous, as ...

, and

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. She is best known for her

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''Die Stunde zwischen Hund und Wolf'' (The Hour Between Dog and Wolf), which has been translated into ten languages including English. She has won numerous German and European literary prizes and fellowships, including the Georg-Christoph-Lichtenberg-Preis, the

Leonce-und-Lena-Preis Leonce-und-Lena-Preis is a literary prize of Hesse. The award was founded in 1968, the City of Darmstadt has been awarding the prize since 1979. Leonce and Lena is a play by Georg Büchner. The prize money is €8,000. German-speaking authors who ...

, the Hölty Prize, the

Bertolt-Brecht-Literaturpreis Bertolt-Brecht-Literaturpreis ( en, "Bertolt Brecht Literature Prize") is a literary award in Augsburg, Germany, birthplace of Bertolt Brecht Eugen Berthold Friedrich Brecht (10 February 1898 – 14 August 1956), known professionally as Berto ...

, and a

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fellowship.

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English translations

Awards

* 2001

, Darmstadt * 2003 Literaturstipendium

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* 2003 Stipendium Künstlerdorf Schöppingen * 2004 Stadtschreiberin in Beirut * 2004 Literaturstipendium

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, Los Angeles * 2004 Stipendium der Kunststiftung Baden-Württemberg * 2005 Dresdner Stadtschreiberin * 2005 Förderpreis zum

Hermann-Hesse-Preis The Hermann-Hesse-Literaturpreis is a literary prize of Germany in honour of German-born Swiss writer, poet and Nobel Prize winner Hermann Hesse. The award is presented in Karlsruhe. The prize sum is 15,000 Euros. Previous winners include Martin ...

* 2006 Studienaufenthalt in der Casa Baldi in Olevano Romano bei Rom * 2006 Stipendium Künstlerdorf Schreyahn * 2006

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-Stipendium

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* 2007 Förderpreis zum

Grimmelshausen-Preis Grimmelshausen-Preis is a literary prize in Germany, which is awarded since 1993 on every two years. The prize is named after Hans Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen, author of Simplicius Simplicissimus, a famous German book. The prize money is ...

* 2008 George-Konell-Preis * 2009 Stipendium

* 2009 Förderpreis zum Droste-Preis * 2012 Stipendium

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, Kyoto * 2012 Poetikdozentur: junge Autoren der

Hochschule RheinMain The RheinMain University of Applied Sciences (German: ''Hochschule RheinMain''), formerly University of Applied Sciences Wiesbaden (German: ''Fachhochschule Wiesbaden''), is a university located in Wiesbaden, Germany, founded in 1971. It is p ...

, WS 2012/13 * 2013/2014 Stipendium des Internationalen Künstlerhauses Villa Concordia in Bamberg * 2014 Hölty-Preis * 2014 Stipendium im Rahmen des

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er Leselenz * 2016

* 2016 Robert-Gernhardt-Preis für das Lyrikprojekt ''Zweites Buch der Unruhe'' * 2017 Georg-Christoph-Lichtenberg-Preis, für ihr literarisches Gesamtwerk unter besonderer Berücksichtigung ihres Romans ''Wovon wir lebten'' * 2019

Goethe Plaque of the City of Frankfurt Goethe Plaque of the City of Frankfurt (german: Goethe-Plakette der Stadt Frankfurt am Main, links=no) is an award conferred by Frankfurt, Hesse, Germany and named after Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. The plaque was originally designed by sculptor ...

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