Marica Bodrožić

Marica Bodrožić (born 1973) 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 (A Cherrywood Table) which received the EU Prize for Literature.

Bodrožić's awards include:

• 2001 Hermann Lenz Award
• 2008 Initiative Prize
• 2009 Special Prize for Outstanding Emerging Artists awarded by the Bruno Heck Prize Scholarship
• 2011 Liechtenstein Prize for Literature (Poetry Section)
• 2013 LiteraTour Nord Prize
• 2015 European Union Literature Prize
• 2015 Konrad Adenauer Literature Prize