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DeutschTerézia Mora
Terézia Mora | |
|---|---|
 Terézia Mora (2010) | |
| Born | 5 February 1971 |
| Nationality | Hungarian |
| Alma mater | Humboldt University Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin |
| Occupation(s) | Screenwriter Translator Writer |
| Website | Official website |
Terézia Mora ([ˈtɛreːziɒ ˈmorɒ]; born 5 February 1971) is a German Hungarian writer, screenwriter and translator.
Early life and education
[edit]Terézia Mora was born in Sopron, Hungary, to a family with German roots and grew up bilingual.[1] She moved to Germany after the political changes in Hungary in 1990 in order to study Hungarian studies and drama at the Humboldt University of Berlin. Subsequently, she trained as a screenwriter at the Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin.[2]
Career
[edit]She is a member of the German PEN Center and the Deutsche Akademie für Sprache und Dichtung, to which she was elected as a member in 2015.[3]
Since 1990 she has lived in Berlin, working as a freelance writer, writing in German,[3][4] and as a translator from Hungarian.[5] Among her works, there is a trilogy about an IT specialist, Darius Kopp, and his existential struggle.[6]
Mora is married and has one daughter.[2]
Awards and honours
[edit]- 1997: Würth Literature Prize for her screenplay The Ways of Water in Erzincan and the Open-Mike-Literary Prize of the Berliner LiteraturWERKstatt for the tale Durst
- 1999: Ingeborg Bachmann Prize for the narration Der Fall Ophelia (The case of Ophelia), contained in her first volume of stories Seltsame Materie (Strange Matter)
- 2000: Adelbert von Chamisso Prize (promotional prize)
- 2001: Island writer on Sylt
- 2002: Jane Scraberd Prize of the Heinrich Maria Ledig-Rowohlt Foundation for her translation of Péter Esterházy's Harmonia Caelesti
- 2004: Mara Cassens Prize, Prize for the Art Prize of the Academy of Arts (Berlin), Prize of the Leipzig Book Fair for her novel Alle Tage (Category: Fiction)
- 2005: Prize of LiteraTour Nord
- 2006: Villa Massimo scholarship
- 2006/2007: Tübingen Poetry Lecturer together with Péter Esterházy
- 2007: Franz Nabl Prize
- 2010: Adelbert von Chamisso Prize, Erich Fried Prize
- 2011: Translation Prize of the Kunststiftung NRW for her translation by Péter Esterházy's A production novel (two production novels) from the Hungarian and at the same time for her life's work [5]
- 2011: "Grenzgänger-Scholarship" by the Robert Bosch Foundation for research on The Monster2013: German Book Prize for The Monster
- October 2013: German Book Prize for her novel Das Ungeheuer[7]
- 2013/2014: Frankfurt Poetics Lecturer
- 2017: Bremen Literature Prize for Love Among Aliens
- 2017: Preis der Literaturhäuser
- 2017: Solothurner Literaturpreis
- 2018: Roswitha Prize[8]
- 2018: Georg Büchner Prize,[9] announced on 3 July 2018 by the German Academy for Language and Literature; it's one of Germany's highest literary honors and comes with an award of 50,000 euros.[10]
- 2021: Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
- 2021: Brothers Grimm Poetics Professorship[11]
Works
[edit]
Terézia Mora in 2009.
Prose
[edit]- Strange matter, Rowohlt Verlag, Reinbek 1999, ISBN 978-3-498-04471-8
- Alle Tage, Luchterhand Literaturverlag, Munich 2004, ISBN 978-3-630-87185-1
- The only man on the continent, Luchterhand Literaturverlag, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-630-87271-1
- The monster, Luchterhand Literaturverlag, Munich 2013, ISBN 978-3-630-87365-7
- Love among aliens, narratives. Luchterhand Literaturverlag, Munich 2016, ISBN 978-3-630-87319-0
- On the rope (Auf dem Seil), Luchterhand, Munich 2019, ISBN 978-3-630-87497-5[6]
- Fleckenverlauf. Ein Tage- und Arbeitsbuch. Luchterhand, Munich 2021, ISBN 978-3-630-87669-6
- Muna, or Half a Life (Muna oder Die Hälfte des Lebens). Luchterhand, Munich 2023, ISBN 978-3-630-87496-8[12]
Poetry lectures
[edit]- Do not die, Luchterhand Literaturverlag, Munich 2015, ISBN 978-3-630-87451-7
- The secret text. Salzburger Stefan branch Poetikvorlesung, special number publishing house, Vienna 2016, ISBN 978-3-85449-451-5
Screenplays
[edit]- The Ways of Water in Erzincan, feature film, 30 min. (1998)
- Boomtown / End of the City, feature film, 30 min. (1999)
- The Alibi, screenplay for a thriller shown in German TV,[13] 90 min. (2000)
Plays
[edit]- Something like that (2003)
Audiobooks
[edit]- Miss June Ruby (2005)
Essays
[edit]- About the drastic, in: BELLA triste No. 16 (2006)
Translations
[edit]- Als nur die Tiere lebten (2014), translation of Amikor még csak az állatok éltek, (2012), by Zsófia Bán.
- Abendschule – Ein Fibel für Erwachsene (2012), translation of Esti iskola – Olvasókönyv felnőtteknek, (2007), by Zsófia Bán
References
[edit]- ^ "Terézia Mora – Was bedeutet die Zweisprachigkeit für Ihr Schreiben?". Deutschlandfunk Kultur (in German). Retrieved 2 August 2018.
- ^ a b Krekeler, Elmar (7 October 2013). "Deutscher Buchpreis: Terézia Mora – Eine Frau schreibt sich in die Freiheit". Die Welt. Retrieved 2 August 2018.
- ^ a b "Deutsche Akademie für Sprache und Dichtung – Akademie – Presse – Neue Mitglieder". www.deutscheakademie.de (in German). Retrieved 2 August 2018.
- ^ "Roman "Das Ungeheuer": Terézia Mora erhält Deutschen Buchpreis". Spiegel Online. 7 October 2013. Retrieved 2 August 2018.
- ^ "Terézia Mora". Uklitag. Retrieved 17 November 2024.
- ^ a b "On the Rope". Uklitag. Retrieved 17 November 2024.
- ^ "Terézia Mora wins the German Book Prize 2013 for her novel "Das Ungeheuer"" (Press release). Deutscher Buch Preis. 7 October 2013. Archived from the original on 11 October 2013. Retrieved 8 October 2013.
- ^ NDR. "Roswitha-Preis 2018 geht an Terézia Mora" (in German). Retrieved 2 August 2018.
- ^ "Terezia Mora erhält Georg-Büchner-Preis". news.ORF.at (in German). 3 July 2018. Retrieved 2 August 2018.
- ^ "Deutsche Akademie für Sprache und Dichtung – Awards – Georg-Büchner-Preis". www.deutscheakademie.de.
- ^ "Grimm Poetikprofessur geht an Terézia Mora". Börsenblatt (in German). 9 February 2021. Retrieved 28 December 2023.
- ^ "Muna, or Half a Life". Uklitag. Retrieved 17 November 2024.
- ^ "Das Alibi" – via www.imdb.com.
External links
[edit]- Official website (in German)
