Odile Kennel


Odile Kennel is a German writer of French origin known for her poetry and prose, as well as her translations.

Life and work

Odile Kennel majored in cultural studies and studied political sciences in Tübingen, Berlin and Lisbon. She studied cultural management in Bucharest and Dijon. She grew up bilingual. Besides her own writing, which was represented often in the German media, Odile Kennel translates poetry from the French, Portuguese and Spanish language into German. She also worked for many years as a cultural mediator. Odile Kennel does public readings of her own works on a regular basis.
Odile Kennel works and lives in Berlin.

Publications

Prose

Wimpernflug – eine atemlose Erzählung, Edition Ebersbach, Dortmund 2000Was Ida sagt. Novel, dtv, Munich 2011, Mit Blick auf See. Novel, dtv, Munich 2017,

Poetry

oder wie heißt diese interplanetare Luft, dtv, Munich 2013

Translations (selected works)

Awards and stipends