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Reiner Kunze (born 16 August 1933 in Oelsnitz, Erzgebirge, Saxony) is a German writer and GDR dissident. He studied media and journalism at the University of Leipzig. In 1968, he left the GDR state party SED following the communist Warsaw Pact countries invasion of Czechoslovakia in response to the Prague Spring. He had to publish his work under various pseudonyms. In 1976, his most famous book The Lovely Years, which contained critical insights into the life, and the policies behind the Iron Curtain, was published in West Germany to great acclaim. In 1977, the GDR regime expatriated him, and he moved to West Germany (FRG). He now lives near Passau in Bavaria.
His writings consists mostly of poetry, though he wrote prose as well, including essays. He is also a translator of Czech poetry and prose.
Kunze was a victim of the Stasi's Zersetzung psychological warfare program.
In 2009, he was awarded the Thüringer Literaturpreis.




Works






Awards



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1968 Übersetzerpreis des Tschechoslowakischen Schriftstellerverbandes
1971 Deutscher Jugendbuchpreis
1973 Großer Literaturpreis der Bayerischen Akademie der Schönen Künste and Mölle Literature Prize, Sweden
1977 Georg Trakl Prize, Austria, Andreas-Gryphius-Preis and Georg Büchner Prize
1979 Bavarian Film Awards, Best Screenplay
1981 Geschwister Scholl-Preis
1984 Eichendorff-Literaturpreis
1988 Bavarian Order of Merit
1989 Kulturpreis Ostbayerns
1990 Herbert und Elsbeth Weichmann-Preis and Hanns Martin Schleyer Prize
1993 Commander's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany, Kulturpreis deutscher Freimaurer and Honorary doctorate Technische Universität Dresden
1995 Honorary citizenship of the city of Greiz and Culture award of the district of Passau
1997 Weilheimer Literaturpreis
1999 Friedrich-Hölderlin-Preis
2000 Christian Ferber-Ehrengabe der Deutschen Schillerstiftung
2001 Hans Sahl Prize and Bavarian Maximilian Order for Science and Art
2002 Kunstpreis zur deutsch-tschechischen Verständigung
2003 Ján Smrek Prize and honorary citizenship of the city of Oelsnitz, Erzgebirge
2004 STAB-Preis der Stiftung für Abendländische Besinnung and Czech translation prize Premia Bohemica
2006 Guest of Honor of the Heinrich-Heine-Haus Lüneburg
2008 Order of Merit of the Free State of Thuringia
2009 Memminger Freiheitspreis 1525 and Thüringer Literaturpreis
2013 Robert Schuman Medal, EPP Group
2013 America Award for a lifetime contribution to international writing




British/American editions


The Lovely Years
In Time of Need: A Conversation about Poetry, Resistance & Exile (with Mireille Gansel)
Zimmerlautstarke With the Volume Down Low (Swamp Press, 1981)




References






External links


Official website
Tabellarische Kurzbiografie zu Reiner Kunze (bis 1999)

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