Be it in her award-winning novels, reportages or essays – Nora Bossong’s texts unfailingly take us straight into the painfully relevant problems areas of our time. Where others make snap judgements or withdraw into themselves, she looks closely, listens with compassion and asks questions: about colonial guilt and global justice, about the West’s claims to power and the nature of evil.
With analytical astuteness and verbal power, she...
Be it in her award-winning novels, reportages or essays – Nora Bossong’s texts unfailingly take us straight into the painfully relevant problems areas of our time. Where others make snap judgements or withdraw into themselves, she looks closely, listens with compassion and asks questions: about colonial guilt and global justice, about the West’s claims to power and the nature of evil.
With analytical astuteness and verbal power, she exposes mistaken idealisation and populist humbug, warns of letting history sink into oblivion and of the growing weariness of democracy. She travels to the Yellow Vests protests in Paris, to the opponents of Germany’s coal phase-out in Jänschwalde, to the commemoration events on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the genocide in Rwanda and to the trial against suspected war criminals in The Hague – and she shows that reconciliation cannot be ordered but that our efforts in its service may never ease.
Nora Bossong, born in Bremen in 1982, is the author of poetry, novels and essays and has been the recipient of several awards for her works, including the Peter Huchel Prize, the Art Prize Berlin, the Kranichsteiner Literaturpreis 2019 and the Joseph Breitbach Prize 2020. Schutzzone was longlisted for the German Book Prize 2019. Nora Bossong's works have been translated into various languages.
Nora Bossong, born in Bremen in 1982, is the author of poetry, novels and essays and has been the recipient of several awards for her works,...
2017: After postings with the UN in New York and Burundi, Mira is working for the United Nations Office at Geneva and mediates talks on the reunification of Cyprus. At a reception at the luxury...
Arabic world rights (Alfouad), Netherlands (Wereldbibliotheek)
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In her new volume of poetry, Nora Bossong travels from small-town Germany to the Mediterranean and onwards into the Holy Land and beyond. Her natural manner of movement a shifting back and forth...
English world rights (Seagull)