Education
In the 1960s, he studied German, philosophy and sociology at Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main.
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In the 1960s, he studied German, philosophy and sociology at Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main.
He worked as a journalist until 1965. During this time, he worked, inter alia, for the satirical magazine Pardon and co-edited the magazine Lesezeichen. Since 1970 he has been working as a freelance author
After living in Heidelberg for a long time, Genazino moved to Frankfurt in 2004.
That same year he was awarded the Georg Büchner Prize, the most prestigious award for German literature. In Translation “.
“Förderaktion für zeitgenössische Autoren”, 1982 “Bremer Literaturpreises“, 1990 Solothurner Literaturpreis, 1995 “Berliner Literaturpreis der Stiftung Preußische Seehandlung“, 1996 “Stadtschreiber von Bergen-Enkheim“, 1996/97 “Literaturpreis der Bayerischen Akademie der schönen Künste“, 1998 “Kranichsteiner Literaturpreis“, 2001 Kunstpreis Berlin, 2003 “Hans-Fallada-Preis“, 2003 Georg Büchner Prize, 2004 Kleist Prize, 2007 Rinke Language Prize Guntram und Irene Rinke Stiftung, 2010 Kassel Literary Prize, 2013.
Academy of Arts of the German Democratic Republic. Deutsche Akademie für Sprache und Dichtung. Akademie der Künste Berlin]
In 1990 he became a member of the Academy for Language and Poetry in Darmstadt.
