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  • Irena Vrkljan

    Irena Vrkljan, born in Belgrade in 1930, was a Croatian-German writer and translator. Vrkljan grew up in Zagreb. In 1966 she began her studies at the West Berlin film school.

  • Danica Vukićević

    Danica Vukićević was born in 1959 in Valjevo. She studied literary science in Belgrade and later women’s studies at the Faculty of political sciences. She writes poems, prose, essays and…

  • Philip Waechter

    Philip Waechter, born in Frankfurt am Main in 1968, is a German illustrator and author of children’s books. He studied communication design at the University of Applied Sciences Mainz, specialising…

  • Angel Wagenstein

    Angel Wagenstein, born in 1922 as the son of a Jewish craftsman family in Plovdiv, Bulgaria, spent his childhood in France. During World War II, he barely escaped death as…

  • Jan Wagner

    Jan Wagner, born in Hamburg in 1971, is a German poet, essayist and translator, and the recipient of the Georg Büchner Prize (2017) and Leipzig Book Fair Prize (2015). He…

  • Caroline Wahl

    Caroline Wahl was born in Mainz in 1995 and grew up near Heidelberg. She studied German language and literature in Tübingen and German literature in Berlin. She then worked for…

  • Robert Walser

    Robert Walser was born on 15 April 1878 in Biel. He died on 25 December 1956 during a walk in the snow. After his schooldays, he completed a bank apprenticeship…

  • Martin Walser

    Martin Walser, born in 1927 in Wasserburg on Lake Constance, studied literature, history and philosophy at the Universities of Regensburg and Tübingen. He received his doctorate in literature for a…

  • Otto F. Walter

    Otto Friedrich Walter (1928-1994) was a Swiss writer and publisher. Born in Aarau in 1928, he managed his father’s Walter Verlag in Olten, then Luchterhand Verlag in Neuwied, before returning…

  • Anne Weber

    Anne Weber, born in Offenbach in 1964, has been living in Paris as a freelance author and translator since 1983. She translates from German into French (Sibylle Lewitscharoff, Wilhelm Genazino,…

  • Andreas Weber

    Andreas Weber was born in 1967. He studied biology and philosophy in Berlin, Freiburg, Hamburg and Paris. As a freelance writer, journalist and editor, he has been since 1994 contributing…

  • Frank Wedekind

    Frank Wedekind was born in 1864 in Hanover. He moved to Munich and established the magazine Simplicissimus. Wedekind who fought relentlessly against the bourgeois pseudo-morality wrote in 1891 the socially…