Friedrich Christian Delius
Friedrich Christian Delius is an acclaimed German writer.
He was born in Rome and grew up in Wehrda and Korbach in the state of Hesse. He studied German literature at the Free University and the Technical University in Berlin. He graduated in 1970 and went to work in publishing. Between 1970 and 1978, he worked at the publishing firms Klaus Wagenbach and Rotbuch.
He has published more than a dozen novels and a number of poetry collections. His work has been translated into seventeen languages. He has won numerous German literary prizes including the Joseph Breitbach Prize, the Georg Büchner Prize, and the Critics Prize. He is a member of the Freie Akademie der Künste Hamburg, the Deutsche Akademie für Sprache und Dichtung and the Academy of Arts, Berlin.
Since the late 1970s, he has divided his time between Berlin and Rome.Works in English translation
- 1991 Die Birnen von Ribbeck
- 1994 Der Sonntag, an dem ich Weltmeister wurde in
- 2006 Bildnis der Mutter als junge Frau
- 2013 Die linke Hand des Papstes
