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Reiner Kunze (born 16 August 1933 in Oelsnitz, Erzgebirge, Saxony) is a German writer and GDR dissident. He studied media and journalism at the University of Leipzig. In 1968, he left the GDR state party SED following the communist Warsaw Pact countries invasion of Czechoslovakia in response to the Prague Spring. He had to publish his work under various pseudonyms. In 1976, his most famous book The Lovely Years, which contained critical insights into the life, and the policies behind the Iron Curtain, was published in West Germany to great acclaim. In 1977, the GDR regime expatriated him, and he moved to West Germany (FRG). He now lives near Passau in Bavaria.
His writings consists mostly of poetry, though he wrote prose as well, including essays. He is also a translator of Czech poetry and prose.
Kunze was a victim of the Stasi's Zersetzung psychological warfare program.
In 2009, he was awarded the Thüringer Literaturpreis.
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GenderMale
Birthday1933-08-16 (90 years old)
Birth PlaceOelsnitz, Erzgebirge, Germany
CitizenshipsGerman Democratic Republic, Germany
AwardsCommander's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany, Robert Schuman Medal, Georg Büchner Prize, America Award in Literature, Nikolaus Lenau Award, South Moravian Region Award, Lessing Ring, Thüringer Literaturpreis, Hanns Martin Schleyer Prize, Franz Josef Strauss Award, Weilheim Literature Prize, Memminger Freedom Prize 1525, Literature Award of the Bavarian Academy of the Fine Arts, Bavarian Order of Merit, Bavarian Maximilian Order for Science and Art, Order of Merit of the Free State of Thuringia, Bavarian Film Awards, Andreas Gryphius Prize, Friedrich-Hölderlin-Preis, Geschwister-Scholl-Preis
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