Nora Bossong

Nora Bossong is a German poet and writer. She lives in Berlin.

Career

Bossong studied literature at the German Institute for Literature, as well as cultural studies, philosophy and comparative literature at the Humboldt University of Berlin, the University of Potsdam, and the Sapienza University of Rome. She was a 2001 Fellow of the first Wolfenbüttel literature laboratory.
Bossong's poetry and prose have been published in individual newspapers, anthologies and literary journals. In 2006, she published her debut novel. In 2022, she published a non-fiction book about her generation, Die Geschmeidigen: Meine Generation und der neue Ernst des Lebens.
An advocate for democracy, peace and human rights, Bossong was also a member of the presidium of the PEN Centre Germany for two years.

2001 – Young Authors meeting winner
2001 – Bremer Author scholarship
2003 – Klagenfurt Literature Course
2004 – Leipzig Literature Scholarship
2005 – prose fellowship from the Jürgen Ponto Foundation
2007 – Wolfgang Weyrauch Prize
2007 – Berlin Senate Scholarship
2008 – New York Fellowship in the German House
2010 – Scholarship from the Heinrich-Heine House of Lüneburg
2011 – Berliner Kunstpreis, the Academy of Arts Berlin
2012 – Peter Huchel Prize for Sommer vor den Mauern
2017 – Roswitha Prize
2019 – Kranichsteiner Literaturpreis for Gesellschaft mit beschränkter Haftung
2020 – Thomas Mann Prize
2020 – Joseph-Breitbach-Preis
Publications
Gegend: Roman, novel, Frankfurter Verlagsanstalt, 2006,.
Reglose Jagd: Gedichte, poems,.
Location, Munich-Spring-Verlag, München 2009.
Webers Protokoll, novel, Frankfurter Verlagsanstalt, 2009,.
Sommer vor den Mauern: Gedichte, poetry, Carl Hanser Verlag, Munich 2011,.
Gesellschaft mit beschränkter Haftung, novel, Hanser, Munich 2012,.
36,9°. novel, Hanser, Munich 2015,.
Rotlicht. Reportage. Hanser, Munich 2017,.
Kreuzzug mit Hund. poems, Suhrkamp, Berlin 2018,.
Schutzzone. novel, Suhrkamp, Berlin 2019,.
Auch morgen. Politische Texte. Suhrkamp, Berlin 2021,.
Die Geschmeidigen: Meine Generation und der neue Ernst des Lebens. Ullstein, Berlin 2022,.
Reichskanzlerplatz. novel, Suhrkamp, Berlin 2024,.