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Mirko Bonné * 1965 in Tegernsee/Bavaria. Lives and works in Hamburg as a writer (novels, poetry, short stories, radio plays) and translator. (2006)

lauter niemand # 3 and # 7
no man's land # 1

Co-founder of the Internet tableau DIGITAB
Member of the writers' forum Der goldene Fisch

Awards / Prizes (selection)

  • Translators' Promotion Prize of the Hanseatic City of Hamburg (1990 + 1996).
  • Literature Promotion Prize of the Hanseatic City of Hamburg (1993 + 1999).
  • Exchange scholarship Budapest (1995/96).
  • Exchange scholarship Marseille (1997/98).
  • Wolfgang Weyrauch Poetry Promotion Prize, Darmstadt (2001).
  • Ernst Willner Prize in the Ingeborg Bachmann Competition, Klagenfurth (2002).

Publications (Selection)

  • Die Horizontbäume, poems (1992, LiteraPur 3).
  • Roberta von Ampel, radio play (1992, Radio Bremen).
  • Langrenus, poems (1994, Rospo).
  • Gelenkiges Geschöpf, poems (1996, Rospo).
  • Der junge Fordt, novel (1999, DuMont).
  • Ein langsamer Sturz, novel (2002, DuMont).
  • Hibiskus Code, poems (2003, DuMont).
  • Der eiskalte Himmel, novel (2006, Schöffling)

Translations (selection)

  • John Keats: Werke, (complete works) Reclam, Stuttgart 1995
  • E. E. Cummings: 39 Alphabetisch. Gedichte, Urs Engeler Editor, Weil am Rhein 2001
  • Ghérasim Luca: Das Körperecho. Gedichte, Urs Engeler Editor, Weil am Rhein 2004
  • William Butler Yeats: Die Gedichte (with M. Beyer, G. Falkner, N. Hummelt (ed.), C. Schuenke). Luchterhand, Munich 2005
  • Robert Creeley: Alles, was es für immer bedeutet, Jung und Jung 2006.

Mirko Bonné in English