Anne Weber, mediator between German and French
Published: Wednesday, May 8th 2024, 13:00
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The author Anne Weber is honored with the Solothurn Literature Prize. She was born in Germany and has lived in Paris for decades - and has been an important mediator between the German and French-speaking world ever since.
Anne Weber was born in Offenbach am Rhein in 1964. She began studying French literature and comparative literature at the Sorbonne in Paris in 1983. She first wrote her literary debut "Ida erfindet das Schiesspulver" (1999) in French and translated it into German herself.
Since then, Anne Weber has played an important mediating role in cultural and literary life between the German and French-speaking regions. She not only translates her own works, which she now first writes in German, into French, but also such well-known authors as Wilhelm Genazino and Birgit Vanderbeke into French or, conversely, Cécile Wajsbrot and Georges Perros into German.
Her own literary oeuvre now comprises 13 books in a wide variety of literary genres. She has received numerous prestigious awards for her work, including the Heimito von Doderer Literature Prize in 2004, the Kranichstein Literature Prize in 2010, the Johann Heinrich Voss Prize for Translation and the Eugen Translator's Prize in 2016 and, most recently, the Annette von Droste Hülshoff Prize in 2024. On Sunday (12.05), she will receive the Solothurn Literature Prize as part of the Solothurn Literature Days.
Anne Weber has lived in Paris since 1983 - with her husband Antoine Jaccottet, the son of the Geneva poet Philippe Jaccottet.
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