Monika Maron

Monika Maron studied at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. The recorded working language is German. The field of work recorded is German-language literature and journalism. Works named in the authority record are Flight of Ashes. Distinctions recorded are Mainz resident writer, Irmgard-Heilmann-Preis, Carl Zuckmayer Medal and Brüder-Grimm-Preis der Stadt Hanau.

• Name — Monika Maron • Born — 3 June 1941 • Birthplace — Berlin • Occupation — author

She moved in 1951 from West to East Berlin with her stepfather, Karl Maron, the GDR Minister of the Interior. She studied theatre and spent time as a directing assistant and as a journalist. In the late 1970s, she began writing full-time in East Berlin. She left the GDR in 1988 with a three-year visa. After living in Hamburg, Germany, until 1992, she returned to a reunited Berlin, where she lives and writes. Her works deal to a large degree with confrontation with the past and explore the threats posed both by memory and isolation. Her prose is sparse, bleak, and lonely, conveying the sensitivity and desperation of her narrators. Her published work exhibited increasingly conservative political views. In October 2020 she announced that her publishing house had cut ties with her.

Monika Maron is recorded as having received Mainz resident writer, Irmgard-Heilmann-Preis and Carl Zuckmayer Medal. Recorded at birth as Monika Eva Iglarz.