Wilhelm Genazino

Wilhelm Genazino (born 22 January, 1943, Mannheim) is a German journalist and author.

After his A-levels he studied German, philosophy and sociology at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe-university in Frankfurt am Main. He worked as a journalist until 1965. Among other things he was worked for the satirical magazine "Pardon" and co-edited the magazine "Lesezeichen". Since 1970 he has been working as a freelance author. In 1977 he achieved a breakthrough as a serious writer with his trilogy "Abschaffel". Since 1990 he has been a member of the Academy for Language and Poetry in Darmstadt. After living in Heidelberg for a long time, Genazino moved to Frankfurt in 2004. In this year, he also won the Georg Büchner-Preis, the most prestigious award for German literature.

elected Works

* "Laslinstrasse", Cologne: 1965
* "Abschaffel-Trilogie:"
** "Abschaffel", 1977
** "Die Vernichtung der Sorgen", 1978
** "Falsche Jahre", 1979
* "Der Fleck, die Jacke, die Zimmer, der Schmerz", 1989 ("The mark, the jacket, the room, the pain")
* "Die Kassiererinnen", 1998 ("Road works ahead")
* "Ein Regenschirm für diesen Tag", 2001 ("An umbrella for one day")
* "Eine Frau, eine Wohnung, ein Roman", 2003 ("A woman, a flat, a novel")
* "Der gedehnte Blick", 2004 ("The extended gaze")
* "Die Liebesblödigkeit", 2005 ("The love stupidity")
* "Mittelmäßiges Heimweh", 2007 ("Moderate homesickness")

In Translation

* "Ein Regenschirm für diesen Tag" has been translated into English (as "The Shoe Tester of Frankfurt", New York: New Directions, 2006), French, Italian, Greek and Lithuanian.
* "Eine Frau, eine Wohnung, ein Roman" has been translated into French and Spanish.
* Translations of works by Willhelm Genazino have also been published in Greek, Latvian and Russian.

Honours

* “Förderaktion für zeitgenössische Autoren”, 1982
* “Bremer Literaturpreises“, 1990
* Solothurner Literaturpreis, 1995
* “Berliner Literaturpreis der Stiftung Preußische Seehandlung“, 1996
* “Stadtschreiber von Bergen-Enkheim“, 1996/97
* “Literaturpreis der Bayerischen Akademie der schönen Künste“, 1998
* “Kranichsteiner Literaturpreis“, 2001
* “Kunstpreis Berlin“, 2003
* “Hans-Fallada-Preis“, 2003
* Georg Büchner Prize, 2004
* Kleist Prize, 2007