Dorothea Dieckmann was born in 1957 in Freiburg, Germany. She studied literature and philosophy and now works as an essayist and literary critic.
In 1990 she was awarded the Hamburg Prize for Literature. In 1996 she received the Marburg Prize for Literature for her novella Die Schwere und die leichte Liebe (Heavy Love, Light Love).
In 1997 she was awarded the Stipend of the German Culture Foundation in Wiepersdorf Castle, and in 2004 she was a fellow in the Ledig House in Ghent, New York.
Dieckmann's other publications include How Angels Appear and Ladies & Gentlemen, among others. Her latest novel, Guantánamo, will be published in the United States in 2007.
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