Career
Dorothea Dieckmann is an award winning writer from Germany. She has lived in Hamburg, Koln and Rome. Prior to becoming a full-time writer Diechmann worked as a high school teacher.
She is a receipient of the 1990 Literature Prize of the City of Hamburg.
In 1997 she received the Künstlerhaus Schloss Wiepersdorf scholarship. In 1998 she received the Marburger Literaturpreis.
In 2004 she received a scholarship from Ledig House. In 2009 she was chosen to be Dresden"s writer in residence.
Her novel "Guantanamo" was her first to be translated into English.