Poet, novelist and essayist Lutz Seiler was born in Gera, Thuringia, in 1963 and today lives in Wilhelmshorst, near Berlin, and in Stockholm. His writing has won many prizes, include the Ingeborg Bachmann and the German Book Prize, and been translated into twenty-five languages.
Poet, novelist and essayist Lutz Seiler was born in Gera, Thuringia, in 1963 and today lives in Wilhelmshorst, near Berlin, and in Stockholm. His writing has won many prizes, include the Ingeborg Bachmann and the German Book Prize, and been translated into twenty-five languages.
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