Zoran Drvenkar is a Croatian /

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writer. He has written fiction, poems, and plays.

Early life

Born in

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, Croatia in 1967, Zoran Drvenkar has lived in Germany since age three.

Career

Drvenkar has worked as a writer from 1989. He has written novels, including fiction for children and young adults, poems, plays, and

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. A novel for young adults, ''Tell Me What You See'', was published in an English translation by Chantal Wright in 2005. His thriller novel ''Sorry'' won the Friedrich-Glauser Prize in 2010. Employing a complex multi-person narrative scheme, the English translation has been critically acclaimed. The English translation of the crime thriller ''You'' was published in 2014. In February 2020, it was announced that

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had commissioned an eight-part TV adaptation of ''You'', penned by Ben Chanan. The series, called '' Then You Run'', was released on

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in the UK from 7 July 2023.

Recognition and awards

Drvenkar has received many grants and prizes for his writing, including: * 1998: Oldenburg Children’s and Young People’s Book Prize, for his debut novel ''Niemand so stark wie wir'' * 1999: Science Fiction Prize of the Literature Workshop Berlin for ''Die alte Stadt'' * 2000: Munich Youth Dramatist Prize * 2005: German Young People’s Literature Prize, for ''Die Kurzhosengang'' (2004), published under the dual pseudonyms of "Victor Caspak & Yves Lanois"

References

External links

Official German Homepage Zoran Drvenkar

The story behind You - Essay by Zoran Drvenkar
at Upcoming4.me 1967 births Living people German male writers Croatian emigrants to Germany {{Germany-writer-stub