Marion Poschmann grew up in the Ruhr Area and lives as a freelance writer in Berlin. She understands literature as a poetic process of discovery based on the premise that the nature of experience is not already known. Her work focuses on the question of subjectivity, the relationship between language and reality, the significance of imagination in literature, and the tension between perception, politics, and nature under the conditions of climate change. She has received numerous prestigious awards in the genres of poetry, prose, and essay, including the Peter Huchel Prize for Poetry in 2011, the first German Prize for Nature Writing in 2017, and the Joseph Breitbach Prize in 2023. Her novel “Die Kieferninseln” (Suhrkamp Verlag, 2017) was shortlisted for both the German Book Prize and the Man Booker International Prize in 2019. She is a member of various academies, including the German Academy for Language and Literature and the Berlin Academy of Arts. Her most recent verse novella, “Die Winterschwimmerin,” was published by Suhrkamp Verlag in 2025.
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