Yannic Han Biao Federer
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Yannic Han Biao Federer
Yannic Han Biao Federer lives and works in Cologne. He writes novels, stories, essays, and reviews, which have been published by outlets such as Deutschlandfunk, WDR, und SWR. He is a member of PEN Berlin and the Junges Kolleg at the Nordrhein-Westfälischen Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Künste. He has received numerous prizes and grants for this work, including the Bayern 2-Wortspiele-Literaturpreis and the Förderpreis des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen in 2022.
Yannic Han Biao Federer lives and works in Cologne. He writes novels, stories, essays, and reviews, which have been published by outlets such as Deutschlandfunk, WDR, und SWR. He is a member of PEN Berlin and the Junges Kolleg at the Nordrhein-Westfälischen Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Künste. He has received numerous prizes and grants for this work, including the Bayern 2-Wortspiele-Literaturpreis and the Förderpreis des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen in 2022.
Awards (selection)
Wortspiele-Preis 2022 for Tao
Wortspiele-Preis 2022 for Tao
PUBLICATIONS
Latest first
Year of Publication: 2025
Yannic Han Biao FedererYear of Publication: 2025
I See You Everywhere, Forever
In precise and piercing language, Yannic Biao Federer tells of the loss of his son, of saying goodbye and care work, of parenthood and love. I See You Everywhere, Forever is a document of...
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Domestic rights sales: German Radio Play (DAV)
Year of Publication: 2022
Yannic Han Biao FedererYear of Publication: 2022
Tao
Very few people know that Tobi’s real name is Tao. Only Miriam calls him by his Chinese name when they are alone together. When she breaks up with him, Tao travels by car across Europe to escape his grief over the separation. But the memory of the years they spent together haunts him, nor will the death of his father loosen its grip on him: years ago, he disappeared in Hong Kong while...
Year of Publication: 2019
Yannic Han Biao FedererYear of Publication: 2019
And Everything is Like Paper Mâché
It is the late summer of 2001 in the backwoods of Baden. On the television, there are images of the World Trade Centre collapsing. Jian is sixteen and in love with Sarah, but sleeps with Anna who has just broken up with Frank. After that, Sarah doesn’t want to have anything to do with Jian anymore, nor Jian with Anna, and Frank is caught up in his own self. Fifteen years later Anna is in a...