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Clemens Meyer (born 1977) is a German writer. He is the author of Als wir träumten (As We Were Dreaming, 2006), Die Nacht, die Lichter (All the Lights, 2008), Gewalten (Acts of Violence, 2010), Im Stein (Bricks and Mortar, 2013), and Die stillen Trabanten (Dark Satellites, 2017).
Apr 4, 2023 · Longlisted for the International Booker Prize 2023, author Clemens Meyer talks about While We Were Dreaming in an exclusive interview
Clemens Meyer’s dazzling, dizzying tour de force chronicles the growth of the sex industry in the former East Germany over the last 30 years. Translated by Katy Derbyshire.
Aug 20, 1977 · Meyer won a number of prizes for his first novel Als wir träumten (As We Were Dreaming), published in 2006, [2] in which a group of friends grow up and go off the rails in East Germany after the fall of the Berlin Wall. He received the Rheingau Literatur Preis in 2006.
Clemens Meyer is a leading light among young German writers. Born in 1977 in what was then East Germany, his studies at the German Literature Institute, Leipzig, were interrupted by a spell in a youth detention centre. He has worked as a security guard, forklift driver and construction worker.
Feb 28, 2006 · Clemens Meyer, Katy Derbyshire (Translator) Rico, Mark, Paul and Daniel were 13 when the Berlin Wall fell in autumn 1989. Growing up in Leipzig at the time of reunification, they dream of a better life somewhere beyond the brewery quarter.
May 5, 2023 · Clemens Meyer’s belatedly translated debut pitches us into a world of adolescent anarchy where the old order has crumbled
