Mirko Bonné


Mirko Bonné is a German writer and translator.
Bonné was born in Tegernsee, Bavaria. In 1975 his family moved to Hamburg, where he attended the Hansa Gymnasium. He graduated from the Otto Hahn Gymnasium in Geesthacht in 1986 and worked as a bookshop assistant, taxi driver and nurse. His writing career began in the early 1990s with journalism, moving on to lyric poetry and translations.
In his poetry, influenced by Keats, Trakl and Eich, he treats the themes of landscape, life, and memory, while his prose, which includes novels about Shackleton and Camus, concerns itself with the mechanisms of oppression. He has published travel writing about South America, Russia, China, the United States, Iran, and Antarctica, and translated Anderson, Dickinson, Keats, Cummings, Creeley, Yeats, and Gherasim Luca. He was a member of PEN Germany and lives in Hamburg.

Original works

Roberta von Ampel. Radio play, Radio Bremen 1992Langrenus. Gedichte. Rospo, Hamburg 1994,.Gelenkiges Geschöpf. Poems. Rospo, Hamburg 1996,.Der junge Fordt. Novel. DuMont, Köln 1999,.Ein langsamer Sturz. Novel. DuMont, Köln 2002,.Hibiskus Code. Poems. DuMont, Köln 2003,.Der eiskalte Himmel. Novel. Schöffling, Frankfurt am Main 2006,.Die Republik der Silberfische. Poems. Schöffling, Frankfurt am Main 2008,.Wie wir verschwinden. Novel. Schöffling, Frankfurt am Main 2009,.Ausflug mit dem Zerberus. Schöffling, Frankfurt am Main 2010,.Der Eichelhäher. Short story. Literatur-Quickie, Hamburg 2010,.

Translations

Essays in literary journals

Dunkle Deutung des Vogelflugs. Essay. Bella triste No. 24, 2009.Das verwundete Herz. Essay. Quart Heft für Kultur Tirol No. 18, 2011.

Prizes