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Date of Birth
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03-August-1973
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Place of Birth
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Split-Dalmatia County
(Croatia, Adriatic Euroregion)
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Nationality
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Croatia, Germany
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Profession
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Writer, Essayist, Poet, Novelist, Translator, Teacher
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Marica Bodrožić is a German writer of Croatian descent. She was born in Svib in Cista Provo, Croatia in the former Yugoslavia. She moved to Germany as a child and currently lives in Berlin.
Bodrožić writes primarily in the German language. She is fluent in multiple genres, including essays, novels, poems, and stories. She has worked as a literary translator and a teacher of creative writing. One of her best known works is the novel Kirschholz und alte Gefühle which received the EU Prize for Literature.
Bodrožić's awards include:
the Hermann Lenz Award in 2001
the 2008 Initiative Prize
the 2009 Special Prize for Outstanding Emerging Artists awarded by the Bruno Heck Prize Scholarship
the 2011 Liechtenstein Prize for Literature
the 2013 LiteraTour Nord Prize
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