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Sibylle Lewitscharoff (German: [ziˈbɪlə leviˈtʃaːʁɔf]; 16 April 1954 – 13 May 2023) was a German author. She first wrote in her spare time as a bookkeeper, quitting after her first novel, Pong, appeared in 1998. Pong was successful with critics and the public, earning her the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize. It was followed by Consummatus (2006), Apostoloff (2009) and Blumenberg (2011). She received several German literary awards, including the Georg Büchner Prize in 2013, for "[re-exploring] the boundaries of what we consider our daily reality with an inexhaustible energy of observation, narrative fantasy and linguistic inventiveness.".
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GenderFemale
Birthday1954-04-16
Deathday2023-05-13 (69 years old)
Birth PlaceStuttgart, Germany
CitizenshipsGermany
AwardsGeorg Büchner Prize, Kranichsteiner Literaturpreis, Marieluise-Fleißer-Preis, Wilhelm Raabe Literature Prize, Marie Luise Kaschnitz Prize, Ricarda-Huch-Preis, Brüder-Grimm-Poetikprofessur, Berliner Literaturpreis, Ingeborg Bachmann Prize, Kleist Prize, Leipzig Book Fair Prize/Fiction
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