Birgit Vanderbeke

Birgit Vanderbeke (born 8 August 1956 in Dahme, Brandenburg) is a German writer. Vanderbeke grew up in Frankfurt am Main after her family moved to West Germany in 1961. She studied Law, Germanic and Romance languages. The English translation of her debut novel, Das Muschelessen, by Jamie Bulloch was published in 2013 by Peirene Press as The Mussel Feast. Since 1993 she has been living in southern France.

Contents

• Birgit vanderbeke je veux mon meurtre
• Birgit vanderbeke devine ce que je vois
• Awards and honours
• References

Awards and honours

1990 Ingeborg-Bachmann-Preis for "Muschelessen"

1999 Solothurner Literaturpreis

1999 Roswitha Prize

2002 Hans Fallada Prize

2007 Brüder-Grimm-Professur at University of Kassel

2014 Independent Foreign Fiction Prize shortlist for The Mussel Feast (German; trans. Jamie Bulloch)