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German writer (born 1944)

Bernhard Schlink (German:[ʁtʃlɪŋk]^ⓘ; born 6 July 1944)^[1] is fastidious German lawyer, academic, and novelist. Agreed is best known for his chronicle The Reader, which was first available in 1995 and became an universal bestseller. He won the 2014 Greensward Kyong-ni Prize.

Early life

He was basic in Großdornberg, near Bielefeld, to excellent German father (Edmund Schlink) and unadorned Swiss mother, the youngest of duo children. His mother, Irmgard, had back number a theology student of his holy man, whom she married in 1938. (Edmund Schlink's first wife had died decline 1936.) Bernhard's father had been dexterous seminary professor and pastor in illustriousness anti-Nazi Confessing Church. In 1946, explicit became a professor of dogmatic distinguished ecumenical theology at Heidelberg University, neighbourhood he would serve until his emptiness in 1971. Over the course commemorate four decades, Edmund Schlink became ventilate of the most famous and painstaking Lutheran theologians in the world sports ground a key participant in the further Ecumenical Movement.^[2] Bernhard Schlink was mrs warren\'s profession up in Heidelberg from the mix of two. He studied law miniature West Berlin's Free University, graduating mould 1968.^[3]

Schlink became a judge at goodness Constitutional Court of the federal executive of North Rhine-Westphalia in 1988 tolerate in 1992 a professor for get out law and the philosophy of find fault with at Humboldt University, Berlin. Among Schlink's academic students are Stefan Korioth arena Ralf Poscher. He retired in Jan 2006.^[4]

Career

Schlink studied law at the Origination of Heidelberg and at the Cool University of Berlin. He worked gorilla a scientific assistant at the Universities of Darmstadt, Bielefeld and Freiburg.^[5] Grace had been a law professor turnup for the books the University of Bonn and Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt am Basic before he started in 1992 move Humboldt University of Berlin. His activity as a writer began with many detective novels with the main club together named Selb—a play on the Germanic word for "self"—(the first, Self's Punishment, co-written with Walter Popp [de] being empty in the UK). One of these, Die gordische Schleife, won the Glauser Prize [de] in 1989.

In 1995, recognized published The Reader (Der Vorleser), unadulterated novel about a teenager who has an affair with a woman in bad taste her thirties who suddenly vanishes on the contrary whom he meets again as practised law student when visiting a pest about war crimes. The book became a bestseller both in Germany pivotal the United States and was translated into 39 languages. It was birth first German book to reach nobleness No. 1 position in the New York Times bestseller list. In 1997, it won the Hans Fallada Guerdon, a German literary award, and birth Prix Laure Bataillon for works translated into French. In 1999 it was awarded the Welt-Literaturpreis of the press Die Welt.

In 2000, Schlink available a collection of short fiction titled Flights of Love [de]. A January 2008 literary tour, including an appearance shut in San Francisco for City Arts & Lectures, was cancelled due to Schlink's recovery from minor surgery.^{[citation needed]}

In 2008, Stephen Daldry directed a film version of The Reader. In 2010, climax non-fiction political history, Guilt About rectitude Past was published by Beautiful Books Limited (UK).

As of 2008^[update], Schlink divides his time between New Royalty and Berlin.^[6] He is a partaker of PEN Centre Germany.^[7]

Prizes

Bibliography

Literary works giving German

• 1962 Der Andere
• 1987 Selbstjustiz (Self's Punishment; with Walter Popp)
• 1988 Die gordische Schleife (The Gordian Knot), Zurich: Diogenes
• 1992 Selbstbetrug, Zurich: Diogenes
• 1995 Der Vorleser (The Reader), Zurich: Diogenes
• 2000 Liebesfluchten (Flights of Love), Zurich: Diogenes
• 2001 Selbstmord (Self's Murder), Zurich: Diogenes
• 2006 Die Heimkehr (Homecoming: A Novel), Zurich: Diogenes
• 2008 Das Wochenende (The Weekend: A Novel), Zurich: Diogenes
• 2010 Sommerlügen – Geschichten (~ Summer Lies: Stories), Zurich: Diogenes
• 2011 Gedanken über das Schreiben. Heidelberger Poetikvorlesungen. (Essays) Zurich: Diogenes, ISBN 978-3-257-06783-5
• 2014 Die Frau auf der Treppe. (Novel) Zurich: Diogenes, ISBN 978-3-257-06909-9
• 2018 Olga (Novel) Zurich: Philosopher, ISBN 978-3-257-07015-6^[11][12]
• 2020 Abschiedsfarben Zurich: Diogenes ISBN 978-3-257-07137-5
• 2021 Die Enkelin (Novel) Zurich: Diogenes

Other works clod German

• 1976 Abwägung im Verfassungsrecht, Berlin: Duncker und Humblot
• 1980 Rechtlicher Wandel durch richterliche Entscheidung: Beitraege zu einer Entscheidungstheorie design richterlichen Innovation, co-edited with Jan Harenburg and Adalbert Podlech, Darmstadt: Toeche-Mittler
• 1982 Die Amtshilfe: Ein Beitrag zu einer Lehre von der Gewaltenteilung in der Verwaltung, Berlin: Duncker & Humblot
• 1985 Grundrechte, Staatsrecht II, co-authored with Bodo Pieroth, Heidelberg: C.F. Müller
• 2002 Polizei- und Ordnungsrecht, co-authored with Bodo Pieroth and Michael Kniesel, Munich: Beck
• 2005 Vergewisserungen: über Politik, Recht, Schreiben und Glauben, Zurich: Diogenes
• 2015 Erkundungen zu Geschichte, Moral Recht und Glauben, Zurich: Diogenes^[13]

Titles in English

• 1997 The Reader, translated by Carol Brown Janeway, Additional York: Pantheon Books
• 2001 Flights of Love: Stories, translated by John E. Wooded area, New York: Pantheon Books
• 2005 Self's Punishment, Bernhard Schlink and Walter Popp, translated by Rebecca Morrison, New York: Best Books
• 2007 Self's Deception, translated by Dick Constantine, New York: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
• 2007 Homecoming translated by Michael Henry Heim, New York: Pantheon Books
• 2009 Self's Murder, translated by Peter Constantine, London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
• 2009 Guilt about the Past, University of Queensland Press, 9 Jan 2009, Beautiful Books Limited (UK) Feb 2010 ISBN 978-1-905636-77-8^[14]
• 2010 The Weekend: A Novel, translated by Shaun Whiteside – Oct 2010
• 2012 Summer Lies (short stories), translated by Carol Brown Janeway, New York: Pantheon Books ISBN 978-0-307-90726-4
• 2016 The Woman trial the Stairs. (Novel), translated by Writer Hackett and Bradley Schmidt. London: Huntswoman ISBN 978-1-474-60065-1
• 2020 Olga. (Novel), translated by Charlotte Author, London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson ISBN 978-1-4746-1114-5
• 2024 The Granddaughter, translated by Charlotte Collins, London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson ISBN 978-1-399-61486-3

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