Katja Oskamp
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- Rauris Literature Prize (2004)
- Anna Seghers Prize (2007)
- Dublin Literary Award (2023)
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Katja Oskamp (born 20 February 1970 in Leipzig) is a German writer. She won the 2023 Dublin Literary Award.
Oskamp was born 20 February 1970 in Leipzig, Germany and grew up in Berlin.[1][2] She studied theatre at the Theaterhochschule Leipzig (1989–1991) and literature at the German Institute for Literature (1999–2002).[1]
Career
Oskamp began her career working as a playwright at the Volkstheater Rostock.[1][2]
In 2000, she won her first literary prize for a short story called Rolf und Mucki und so weiter.[1] Three years later, she debuted a short story collection called Halbschwimmer about childhood and youth in East Germany,[2] which won the Rauris Literature Prize.[5] In 2007, she published her first novel, Die Staubfängerin, which won her the Anna Seghers Prize.[3]
In 2019, Oskamp published Marzahn, Mon Amour, a novel about the elderly citizens of Berlin, based on the author's own observations as a practising chiropodist in the Marzahn district, after deciding to change her career.[6] It was her first work to be translated into English.[2] The translation created by Jo Heinrich won the 2023 International Dublin Literary Award.[7]
