Dorothea Dieckmann

Dorothea Dieckmann is a German writer.

Biography

Dorothea Dieckmann was born in Freiburg in 1957. She has lived in Hamburg, Cologne, Rome, Tübingen, and Stuttgart. Prior to becoming a full-time writer Diechmann worked as a high school teacher.
Her novel Guantanamo was her first to be translated into English.
When Tim Mohr translated the novel into English, he won the Best Translated Book Award.

Awards and honours

She is a recipient of the 1990 Literature Prize of the City of Hamburg. In 1997, she received the Künstlerhaus Schloss Wiepersdorf scholarship. In 1998, she received the Marburger Literaturpreis. In 2004, she received a scholarship from Ledig House. In 2009, she was chosen to be Dresden's writer in residence.