Martin Grzimek

Martin Grzimek, German author, born in Trutzhain in 1950.

Having spent a number of years living and working in South America and the U.S., he now resides in a village near Heidelberg.

His work that raised the most interest is Shadowlife, a near-future mystery in which the nature of book itself is questioned.

Grzimek is a member of International PEN has won a number of literary prizes.

Works

• Berger, 1980
• Stillstand des Herzens, 1982 (translated as Heartstop: Three Stories by Breon Mitchell)
• Trutzhain, 1984
• Die Beschattung, 1989 (translated as Shadowlife by Breon Mitchell)
• El factor tropical, 1992
• Feuerfalter, 1992
• Ein Bärenleben, 1995 (with Marcus Herrenberger)
• Mostar – Skizzen und Splitter, 1995
• Von einem, der verzweifelt versucht, sich zu verlieben, 1995
• Rudi bärenstark, 1998 (with Marcus Herrenberger)
• Das Austernfest, 2004
• Die unendliche Straße, 2005

Literature

Klaus Hoffer, "Diese schreckliche Begierde, eine Beziehung herzustellen. Laudatio auf M.G.s Roman Berger," Manuskripte 21, H. 74 (1981), pp. 30–2.

External links

• Biography in German
• Literature Workshop in US

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