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Ralf Rothmann (born 10 May 1953 in Schleswig, Schleswig-Holstein) is a German novelist, poet, and dramatist. His novels have been translated into several languages, with Knife Edge (Messers Schneide) and Young Light (Junges Licht) being translated into English.
The main subjects of his work are the bourgeois and proletarian realities of life in the Ruhr area (e.g., Stier, Wäldernacht, Milch und Kohle) as well as Berlin (Flieh mein Freund, Hitze, Feuer brennt nicht), with an autobiographically colored focus on alienation, the attempt to escape these situations, and common solitude. Feuer brennt nicht (2009) is a moving portrait of an artist-writer torn between two women paying a high price for infidelity. It is now (2012) available in English translation as Fire doesn't burn, published by Seagull Books.
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Known ForWriting
GenderMale
Birthday1953-05-10 (70 years old)
Birth PlaceSchleswig, Germany
CitizenshipsGermany
ResidencesBerlin, Germany
AwardsMara-Cassens-Preis, Gerty Spies Literary Award, Hans Fallada Prize, Max Frisch Prize, Heinrich-Böll-Preis, Friedrich-Hölderlin-Preis, Walter-Hasenclever-Literaturpreis, Stadtschreiber von Bergen, Kranichsteiner Literaturpreis, Wilhelm Raabe Literature Prize, Arts and Culture Prize of German Catholics
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