Michael Krüger (writer)

This article is about the German writer. For other people named Michael Krüger, see Michael Krüger (disambiguation).

Michael Krüger at the Leipzig Book Fair

Michael Krüger (born 9 December 1943, in Wittgendorf) is a German writer, publisher and translator.

Michael Krüger grew up in Berlin. After the graduating he was apprenticed to a publisher and later studied philosophy and literature. From 1962 to 1965 he worked as a bookseller in London.

From 1968 Krüger has worked as an editor at the publishing house Carl Hanser Verlag, and was its editor-in-chief from 1986 to 2014. In 1972 he published his first poems, with his first collection, Reginapoly, appearing in 1976 and his first collection of stories Was tun: Eine altmodische Geschichte (What shall we do: An old-fashioned story) in 1984. Several stories, novels and translations followed. His work has garnered many important accolades including the 1986 Toucan Prize and the 1996 Prix Médicis étranger.

He wrote the introduction to the 2010 New York Review of Books edition of Jakov Lind's Soul of Wood.

Since 1975 Krüger has been a jury member of the European literary award Petrarca-Preis. He is also a juror for the Zbigniew Herbert International Literary Award.

Works

• Krüger, Michael; Drawert, Kurt (2001). Archive des Zweifels : Gedichte aus drei Jahrzehnten (in German). Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp. ISBN 3-518-39795-8. OCLC 50474040.
• —— (2003). Kurz vor dem Gewitter : Gedichte (in German). Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp. ISBN 3-518-41456-9. OCLC 52911248.
• —— (2007). Die Turiner Komödie Bericht eines Nachlaßverwalters ; Roman (in German). Frankfurt, M. ISBN 978-3-518-45876-1. OCLC 180151476.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
• —— (2007). Unter freiem Himmel : Gedichte (in German). Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp. ISBN 978-3-518-41912-0. OCLC 173071346.
• —— (2008). Reden und Einwürfe : Gedichte (in German). Frankfurt am Main: Insel. ISBN 978-3-458-19309-8. OCLC 262889460.
• —— (2010). Ins Reine : Gedichte (in German). Berlin: Suhrkamp. ISBN 978-3-518-42168-0. OCLC 657596926.
• —— (2013). Umstellung der Zeit : Gedichte (in German). Berlin. ISBN 978-3-518-42394-3. OCLC 856902497.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
• —— (2016). "Hellwach gehe ich schlafen" hundert Gedichte (in German). Berlin. ISBN 978-3-518-46722-0. OCLC 962180677.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
• —— (2017). Das falsche Haus eine Novelle (in German). Berlin: Suhrkamp Verlag. ISBN 978-3-518-24070-0. OCLC 994229551.
• —— (2018). Einmal einfach : Gedichte (in German). Berlin. ISBN 978-3-518-42798-9. OCLC 1020069897.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
• —— (2021). Im Wald, im Holzhaus : Gedichte (in German). Berlin. ISBN 978-3-518-43005-7. OCLC 1264649566.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
• Morselli, Guido; Gschwend, Ragni Maria; —— (2021). Dissipatio humani generis oder Die Einsamkeit Roman (in German). Berlin: Suhrkamp Verlag. ISBN 978-3-518-22529-5. OCLC 1265001212.
• —— (2021). Im Wald, im Holzhaus : Gedichte (in German). Berlin. ISBN 978-3-518-43005-7. OCLC 1264649566.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
• —— (2022). Was in den zwei Wochen nach der Rückkehr aus Paris geschah : eine Erzählung (in German). Berlin. ISBN 978-3-518-47230-9. OCLC 1304455326.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)

External links

• Interview recording
• Review of The Executor
• (in German) Poems at Lyrikline.org