Maxim Biller
German fiction writer

Maxim Biller

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German fiction writer
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25 August 1960(Prague)
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Rada Biller
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Maxim Biller (born 25 August 1960 in Prague], Czech Republic) is a German writer.
Born in Prague to Russian parents, he emigrated with his parents and sister to Germany in 1970, when he was ten years old. After living for a long time in Hamburg and Munich, he now lives in Berlin, frequently writing about issues relating to Jews and Germans.
In 2003 his novel Esra excited attention when its sale was prohibited shortly after its release. Two persons had a provisional order obtained, because they claimed to have seen themselves reflected in characters in the book. A German court obliged their request to take the book from circulation on these grounds.
His first works translated into English (by Anthea Bell) are the collection Love Today (2008), some of which appeared in The New Yorker – "The Mahogany Elephant" (July 2007), "The Maserati Years" (September 2007).

Publications

  • Wenn ich einmal reich und tot bin (Erzählungen). (Someday when I’m rich and dead : Narratives) Kiepenheuer und Witsch, Köln 1990, ISBN 3-423-11624-2. (incl. the narrative Harlem Holocaust)
  • Deutsche Zustände
  • Die Tempojahre (Essays und Reportagen). Deutscher Taschenbuch-Verlag, München 1991, ISBN 3-423-11427-4.
  • Aufbruch nach Deutschland : sechzehn Foto-Essays
  • Land der Väter und Verräter (Erzählungen). Kiepenheuer und Witsch, Köln 1994, ISBN 3-423-12356-7.
  • Harlem Holocaust (Kurzroman). Kiepenheuer und Witsch, Köln 1998, ISBN 3-462-02761-1.
  • Die Tochter. Kiepenheuer und Witsch, Köln 2000, ISBN 3-423-12933-6 (Novel about the failure of a love story between an Israeli, who wants to forget his memories as soldier in the Libanonkrieg, and a German.)
  • Der perfekte Roman : das Maxim-Biller-Lesebuch
  • Kühltransport (Ein Drama), 2001
  • Deutschbuch (Essays und Reportagen), 2001
  • Esra, 2003, ISBN 3-462-03213-5 (the distribution was prohibited from publishing by court)
  • Der perfekte Roman (Ein Lesebuch), 2003
  • Bernsteintage (Erzählungen), 2004
  • Maxim Biller Tapes (CD mit Songs und Gedichten), 2004
  • I Love My Leid (Video), 2004
  • Moralische Geschichten (Satirische Kurzgeschichten), Kiepenheuer und Witsch, Köln 2005 ISBN 3-462-03477-4
  • Adas größter Wunsch (Children's book), 2005
  • Menschen in falschen Zusammenhängen (Comedy), 2006
  • Liebe heute (Short stories), 2007
  • Ein verrückter Vormittag (Children's book), 2008
  • Der gebrauchte Jude. (Self portrait), Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Köln 2009, ISBN 978-3-462-03703-6.
  • Kanalratten (Theater play). Fischer 2013 ISBN 978-3-596-19007-2.
  • Im Kopf von Bruno Schulz (Novelle). Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Köln 2013, ISBN 978-3-462-04605-2.
  • Jack Happy (Children's book), with drawings by Kera Till. Atlantik, Hamburg 2014, ISBN 3-455-37008-X.
  • Biografie (Roman). Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Köln 2016, ISBN 978-3-462-04898-8.
  • Rezension von Fritz Gimpl: Maxim Biller: Harlem Holocaust. In: Lit-eX - Magazin für Verrisse aller Art, Ausgabe 2, Dezember 1998, online unter http://www.lit-ex.de/litex24.htm

Awards

  • 1994 Toucan Prize from the city of Munich
  • 1996 Preis des Europäischen Feuilletons : "Feuilleton" are the culture pages in German speaking newspaper
  • 1996 Otto Stoessl Prize
  • 1997 Else Lasker-Schüler Prize
  • 1999 Theodor Wolff Prize
  • 2008 Brüder-Grimm-Professur of University of Kassel
  • 2012 Würth-Literaturpreis