Maren Kames
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Maren Kames
Maren Kames was born in 1984 in Überlingen am Bodensee and lives as a freelance author and translator in Berlin. Her books HALB TAUBE HALB PFAU (2016) and LUNA LUNA (2019) received much acclaim and various awards. Both books were made into radio plays, and LUNA LUNA was performed in 2022 at Schauspiel Leipzig. Hare Prose is her first book with Suhrkamp.
Maren Kames was born in 1984 in Überlingen am Bodensee and lives as a freelance author and translator in Berlin. Her books HALB TAUBE HALB PFAU (2016) and LUNA LUNA (2019) received much acclaim and various awards. Both books were made into radio plays, and LUNA LUNA was performed in 2022 at Schauspiel Leipzig. Hare Prose is her first book with Suhrkamp.
Praise
Fontane Literary Prize 2025 (shortlist)
German Book Prize 2024 (shortlist)
German Book Prize 2024 (shortlist)
Fontane Literary Prize 2025 (shortlist)
German Book Prize 2024 (shortlist)
German Book Prize 2024 (shortlist)
PUBLICATIONS
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Year of Publication: 2024
Maren KamesYear of Publication: 2024
Half Pigeon Half Peacock
I am surrendered to the white, as the white is surrendered to me. Here I am exposed to fear; here, fear is exposed.
A self finds itself, on »Sunday morning, half past seven, on the shores with the great crested grebes«. From here, a landscape is surveyed, whose contours only become clear through speaking and walking. Like floes, texts emerge from the whiteness. They...
Year of Publication: 2024
Maren KamesYear of Publication: 2024
Hare Prose
Like a trick image that shifts between adventure and memoir, magic and the everyday
»If that's all there is, I’m moving out!« someone yells and heads off in their seven-league boots and their travel socks. A hare in the back seat. We travel straight through time, through the ages, and out into pitch-dark outer space. In a hand-drawn plane through the sky and through...
»If that's all there is, I’m moving out!« someone yells and heads off in their seven-league boots and their travel socks. A hare in the back seat. We travel straight through time, through the ages, and out into pitch-dark outer space. In a hand-drawn plane through the sky and through...
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News
Ulrike Edschmid and Maren Kames Shortlisted for the Wilhelm Raabe Literary Prize
Edschmid and Kames have been selected for their novels The Last Patient and Hare Prose.News