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Matthias Göritz Novelist Germany
Matthias Göritz was born in Hamburg, Germany in 1969 and studied Philosophy and Literature in university. He stayed long time in Moscow, Paris, Chicago and New York. He received Literature Funding Award of the city of Hamburg in 1994 and 2000, participated in writer-in-residence at the Bard College, New York. He was also invited to the residence scholarship at the Literarisches Colloquium Berlin(LCB) in 2002 and residence scholarship at the Goethe-Institut of Rabat, Morocco in 2004. He was the guest writer in the International Writing Program (IWP) of the University of Iowa in 2003. His debut novel Der kurze Traum des Jakob Voss was awarded the Mara Cassen Preis in 2005 and the Bayern 2 Jury Award of the Bavarian Broadcast in 2006. The collection of poems Pools received the Zweites Buch Stipendium of Low Saxony, writer-in-residence at the Deutsches Haus, New York University in 2007.
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