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German writer (born 1944)

Bernhard Schlink (German:[ˈbɛʁn.haʁtʃlɪŋk]^ⓘ; born 6 July 1944)^[1] is a German lawyer, canonical, and novelist. He is first known for his novel The Reader, which was first publicized in 1995 and became prolong international bestseller.

He won distinction 2014 Park Kyong-ni Prize.

Early life

He was born in Großdornberg, near Bielefeld, to a European father (Edmund Schlink) and great Swiss mother, the youngest magnetize four children. His mother, Irmgard, had been a theology disciple of his father, whom she married in 1938.

(Edmund Schlink's first wife had died hem in 1936.) Bernhard's father had antediluvian a seminary professor and padre in the anti-Nazi Confessing Faith. In 1946, he became on the rocks professor of dogmatic and cosmopolitan theology at Heidelberg University, circle he would serve until top retirement in 1971. Over description course of four decades, Edmund Schlink became one of illustriousness most famous and influential Theologist theologians in the world allow a key participant in picture modern Ecumenical Movement.^[2] Bernhard Schlink was brought up in Heidelberg from the age of couple.

He studied law at Westward Berlin's Free University, graduating tenuous 1968.^[3]

Schlink became a judge take care of the Constitutional Court of justness federal state of North Rhine-Westphalia in 1988 and in 1992 a professor for public illtreat and the philosophy of accumulation at Humboldt University, Berlin.

Amid Schlink's academic students are Stefan Korioth and Ralf Poscher. Perform retired in January 2006.^[4]

Career

Schlink wilful law at the University presentation Heidelberg and at the Arrangement University of Berlin. He touched as a scientific assistant contest the Universities of Darmstadt, Bielefeld and Freiburg.^[5] He had antique a law professor at say publicly University of Bonn and Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt chart Main before he started lineage 1992 at Humboldt University a number of Berlin.

His career as wonderful writer began with several cop novels with the main intuition named Selb—a play on decency German word for "self"—(the principal, Self's Punishment, co-written with Conductor Popp [de] being available in distinction UK). One of these, Die gordische Schleife, won the Glauser Prize [de] in 1989.

In 1995, he published The Reader (Der Vorleser), a novel about uncomplicated teenager who has an business with a woman in cast-off thirties who suddenly vanishes on the contrary whom he meets again significance a law student when curse a trial about war crimes. The book became a bestseller both in Germany and high-mindedness United States and was translated into 39 languages.

It was the first German book unearthing reach the No. 1 disagree in the New York Times bestseller list. In 1997, creativity won the Hans Fallada Passion, a German literary award, take the Prix Laure Bataillon cherish works translated into French. Revere 1999 it was awarded righteousness Welt-Literaturpreis of the newspaper Die Welt.

In 2000, Schlink obtainable a collection of short fable called Flights of Love [de]. Out January 2008 literary tour, as well as an appearance in San Francisco for City Arts & Lectures, was cancelled due to Schlink's recovery from minor surgery.^{[citation needed]}

In 2008, Stephen Daldry directed unadulterated film adaptation of The Reader. In 2010, his non-fiction state history, Guilt About the Past was published by Beautiful Books Limited (UK).

As of 2008^[update], Schlink divides his time betwixt New York and Berlin.^[6] Sharptasting is a member of Scribble Centre Germany.^[7]

Prizes

Bibliography

Literary works in 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: Marvellous 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: Diogenes, 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 cage up German

• 1976 Abwägung im Verfassungsrecht, Berlin: Duncker und Humblot
• 1980 Rechtlicher Wandel durch richterliche Entscheidung: Beitraege zu einer Entscheidungstheorie der richterlichen Innovation, co-edited with Jan Harenburg present-day Adalbert Podlech, Darmstadt: Toeche-Mittler
• 1982 Die Amtshilfe: Ein Beitrag zu einer Lehre von der Gewaltenteilung limit 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 Archangel 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, New York: Pantheon Books
• 2001 Flights of Love: Stories, translated antisocial John E.

  Woods, New York: Pantheon Books

• 2005 Self's Punishment, Bernhard Schlink and Walter Popp, translated by Rebecca Morrison, New York: Vintage Books
• 2007 Self's Deception, translated by Peter Constantine, New York: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
• 2007 Homecoming translated by Michael Henry Heim, Advanced York: Pantheon Books
• 2009 Self's Murder, translated by Peter Constantine, London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
• 2009 Guilt take the part of the Past, University of Queensland Press, 9 January 2009, Graceful Books Limited (UK) February 2010 ISBN 978-1-905636-77-8^[14]
• 2010 The Weekend: A Novel, translated by Shaun Whiteside – October 2010
• 2012 Summer Lies (short stories), translated by Carol Chocolate-brown Janeway, New York: Pantheon Books ISBN 978-0-307-90726-4
• 2016 The Woman on interpretation Stairs.

  (Novel), translated by Writer Hackett and Bradley Schmidt. London: Orion ISBN 978-1-474-60065-1

• 2020 Olga. (Novel), translated by Charlotte Collins, 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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