Natascha Wodin

She worked as a telephone operator and stenographer before becoming an interpreter and translator of Russian in the early 1970s. Wodin has translated literary works from Russian into German and has lived in Moscow. She has written novels, short stories and poetry, and has won many prizes, including the Adelbert-von-Chamisso Prize in 1998, the Brothers Grimm Prize of the City of Hanau in 1989 and 2009, the Alfred Döblin Prize in 2015 and the Leipzig Book Fair Prize in 2017 for Sie kam aus Mariupol, one of her best known books. Her book Irgendwo in diesem Dunkel is a memoir of her father. She was married to the novelist Wolfgang Hilbig, an experience which she recounts in her book Nachtgeschwister. She has lived in Berlin and Mecklenburg since 1984.

The recorded working language is German and Russian. The field of work recorded is creative and professional writing and translation. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are prose. Works named in the authority record are She came from Mariupol. Distinctions recorded are Alfred Döblin Prize, Wolfram von Eschenbach Award, Adelbert von Chamisso Prize and Prize of the city of Nuremberg.

• Name — Natashcha Wodin • Born — 8 December 1945 • Birthplace — Fürth • Notable Works — Sie kam aus Mariupol • Spouse — Wolfgang Hilbig

• Die gläserne Stadt. Rowohlt, Reinbek 1983.. • Reissue: Die gläserne Stadt. ars vivendi verlag, Cadolzburg 2020.. • Nadja: Briefe aus Russland. editor, translator and introduction by Natascha Wodin. Nishen, Kreuzberg 1984.. • Das Sprachverlies. poems. Rowohlt, Reinbek 1987.. • Einmal lebt ich. DTV, München 1989.. • Sergej. Griechisches Tagebuch. Büchergilde Gutenberg, 1993. • Erfindung einer Liebe. Reclam, Leipzig 1993.. • Die Ehe. Kiepenheuer, Leipzig 1997.. • Das Singen der Fische. Kiepenheuer, Leipzig 2001.. • Nachtgeschwister. Kunstmann, München 2009.. • Alter, fremdes Land. Jung und Jung, Salzburg/Wien 2014.. • Sie kam aus Mariupol. Rowohlt, Reinbek 2017.. • Irgendwo in diesem Dunkel. Rowohlt, Reinbek 2018.. • Nastjas Tränen. Rowohlt Hamburg 2021..

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Natascha Wodin is recorded with the occupation prose writer. Classed in the genre prose. Recorded as having received Alfred Döblin Prize, Wolfram von Eschenbach Award and Adelbert von Chamisso Prize.