Perikles Monioudis

Field of Practice:

Literature

City, Country:

Berlin, Germany

Year:

1998, 1999

Stay(s):

Sept 1998 - Feb 1999

Website(s):

 www.monioudis.de

Born 1966 in Glarus, Switzerland. Studied sociology, political science and public law at the University of Zurich 1987-93. Worked as a journalist. 1993 first novel, later becoming a freelance writer. He has been living in Berlin since 1996.

Grants: Canton of Glarus 1991 und 1993; Canton of Zurich 1995; Berlin Senate, Literary Colloquium 1995; SDR grant for the Schriftstellerhaus, Stuttgart 1996; Berlin Senate, Schloss Wiepersdorf 1997; Schindler Foundation, Glarus 1997.

Awards: Book Prize of City of Zurich 1993 und 1999; Prize of the Swiss Schiller Foundation 1995; Award for prose, Ancona, Italy 1995; Hermann Ganz Award of the Swiss Writers Association 1997; Conrad Ferdinand Meyer Award 1997.

Publications: “Die Verwechslung” 1993; “Das Passagierschiff” 1995; “Die Forstarbeiter, die Lichtung” 1996; “So weit das Auge reicht” 1996; “Eis” 1997; “Deutschlandflug. Ein Traum” 1998; “Die Trüffelsucherin”, Edition Solitude 1999; “Schraffur der Welt” (ed.) 2000; “Palladium” 2000. Works have been published in English, Italian, Dutch, Turkish, Bulgarian, Hungarian.

selected by

J. M. Coetzee