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Artur Becker was born 1968 in Bartoszyce, Masuria.
He has resided in Germany since
1985. Artur Becker writes novels, poems and essays. He is also a translator. He is a member of German P.E.N. Center, of Exil-P.E.N.-Club and in Verband deutscher Schriftsteller (VS) in ver.di..
His
publications include:
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Der
Dadajsee [Lake Dadaj],
novel (STINT Verlag, Bremen 1997).
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Die
Milchstrasse [The
Milky Way],
stories (Hoffmann und Campe Verlag, Hamburg 2002).
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Kino
Muza [Kino
Muza],
novel, (Hoffmann und Campe Verlag, Hamburg, 2003)
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Der Lippenstift meiner Mutter, [My Mother's Lipstick] novel (weissbooks.w, Frankfurt 2010)
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Vom Aufgang der Sonne bis zu ihrem Niedergang, [From the Rising of the Sun until its setting] novel (weissbooks.w, Frankfurt 2013)
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Sieben Tage mit Lidia, [Seven days with Lidia] short novel (weissbooks.w, Frankfurt 2014)
- Kosmopolen
[Cosmopoles]/FONT>,
Essays (weissooks.w Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2016).
Literary awards and grants:
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The
New Book award for the states of Lower Saxony and Bremen
- awarded by the German Writers' Association for the novel
"Lake Dadaj" (1997).
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Bremen's
Author Grant awarded for his collection of poems "The
Songs from the Magic Cauldron" (1997).
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Grant
of the Villa
Decius
in Cracow (1998) awarded by the National Arts Foundation,
Berlin.
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Awarded
for the novel Kino Muza with the annual scholarship
for literature 2002 by the Minister of Education of Lower
Saxony.
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2003
Grant of the LCB in Berlin (Literarisches Colloquium Berlin)
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Grant
of the Casa Baldi
in Olevano Romano of German
Academy(2005),Villa Massimo in Rom and the Ministry of
Public Worship and Instruction in Berlin.
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- Adelbert-von-Chamisso-Prize 2009.
- Grant of the German Study Center in Venice (2010)
- Annual Grant for Literature of the state minister of culture of the federal state of Lower Saxony for the novel Vom Aufgang der Sonne bis zu ihrem Niedergang (2011).
- DIALOG-Award of the German-Polish Societies (2012)..
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