Karen Duve (born 16 November 1961 in Hamburg) is a German author. After secondary school, she worked as a proof-reader and taxi driver in Hamburg. Since 1990 she has been a freelance writer.

Awards

Preis für junge Prosa der Stadt Arnsberg 1991
Open Mike-Literaturpreis der literaturWERKstatt Pankow 1994
Bettina-von-Arnim-Preis 1995
Gratwanderpreis 1996
Literatur-Förderpreis Hamburg 2001
Hebbel-Preis 2004

Literatur

Lyn Marven, Stuart Taberner: Emerging German-Language Novelists of the Twenty-First Century Camden House, 2011
The novel in German since 1990 Cambridge Univ. Press, 2011

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