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Bernhard Schlink
Bernhard Schlink, born near Bielefeld in 1944, is a lawyer and lives in Berlin and New York. His novel The Reader, published in 1995 and turned into a movie by Stephen Daldry in 2009, has been translated into more than 50 languages and established Bernhard Schlink’s worldwide renown as an author. He has been awarded with national and international prizes like the German ›Bundesverdienstkreuz (Order of Merit) 1st Class‹, the French ›Chevalier dans l’Ordre de la Legion d’Honneur‹ and the Italian ›Grinzane Cavour Prize‹.
- Das Wochenende, Nina Grosse, 2011
- The Reader, Stephen Daldry, 2009
- The Other Man, Richard Eyre, 2008
- Der Tod kam als Freund, Nico Hoffmann, 1991
- ›Pak Kyong-ni Prize‹ der südkoreanischen Kulturstiftung Toji für sein schriftstellerisches Schaffen, 2014
- ›Bundesverdienstkreuz 1. Klasse‹ für Der Vorleser, 2003
- ›Preis des German-British Forum‹ für sein Gesamtwerk, 2002
- Ernennung zum ›Chevalier dans l’Ordre de la Légion d’Honneur‹, 2001
- Finnischer Literaturpreis ›Eeva Joenpelto-Preis‹ der Gemeinde Lohja, 2001
- ›Ehrengabe‹ der Heinrich-Heine-Gesellschaft in Düsseldorf, 2000
- ›Evangelischer Buchpreis‹ des Deutschen Verbandes Evangelischer Büchereien für Der Vorleser, 2000
- ›Sonderkulturpreis‹ der japanischen Tageszeitung Mainichi Shinbun, der jedes Jahr an einen japanischen Buchbestseller vergeben wird, für Der Vorleser, 2000
- Erstmals verliehener ›WELT-Literaturpreis‹ für sein literarisches Schaffen, 1999
- ›Grinzane-Cavour-Preis‹ (Italien) für Der Vorleser, 1997
- ›Hans-Fallada-Preis‹ der Stadt Neumünster für Der Vorleser, 1997
- ›Prix Laure Bataillon‹ (Frankreich) für Der Vorleser (Auszeichnung für den Autor sowie für den Übersetzer Bernard Lortholary), 1997
- ›Deutscher Krimi-Preis‹ des Bochumer Krimi Archivs für Selbs Betrug, 1993
- Autorenpreis deutschsprachige Kriminalliteratur ›Der Glauser‹ für Die gordische Schleife, 1989
»Schlink knows the depths of the human soul all too well. The writer and judge proves with each of his books that he knows how to transform German history into literature.«
»Schlink has won his huge popular following by bringing to bear a penetrating intelligence about the psyche of his characters and an empathy for their dilemmas. Professor Schlink may be an expert on the letter of the law, but writer Schlink is an intrepid explorer of the much trickier terrain of the human heart.«
»The German novelist Bernhard Schlink is pretty much second to none when it comes to storytelling.«
»Schlink knows the depths of the human soul all too well. The writer and judge proves with each of his books that he knows how to transform German history into literature.«
»Schlink has won his huge popular following by bringing to bear a penetrating intelligence about the psyche of his characters and an empathy for their dilemmas. Professor Schlink may be an expert on the letter of the law, but writer Schlink is an intrepid explorer of the much trickier terrain of the human heart.«
»The German novelist Bernhard Schlink is pretty much second to none when it comes to storytelling.«