Terézia Mora
Terézia Mora (born 5 February 1971) is a German Hungarian writer, screenwriter and translator.
Terézia Mora
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- Born
- 1971. · Sopron.
- Nationality
- Hungary and Germany.
- Occupation
- writer, screenwriter, translator, germanist, theatrologist and novelist.
- Fields
- prose, screenplay and radio drama.
- Education
- Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.
- Honours
- Ingeborg Bachmann Prize, German Book Prize, Franz Nabl Prize, Literaturpreis der Stadt Bremen, Adelbert von Chamisso Prize and Erich Fried Prize.
- Languages
- German.
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Early life and education
Early life and education
Terézia Mora studied at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. The recorded working language is German. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are prose, screenplay and radio drama. Places of work recorded in the authority are Berlin. Distinctions recorded are Ingeborg Bachmann Prize, German Book Prize, Franz Nabl Prize and Literaturpreis der Stadt Bremen.
Terézia Mora was born in Sopron, Hungary, to a family with German roots and grew up bilingual. She moved to Germany after the political changes in Hungary in 1990 in order to study Hungarian studies and drama at the Humboldt University of Berlin. Subsequently, she trained as a screenwriter at the Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin.
Career
Career
She is a member of the German PEN Center and the Deutsche Akademie für Sprache und Dichtung, to which she was elected as a member in 2015. Since 1990 she has lived in Berlin, working as a freelance writer, writing in German, and as a translator from Hungarian. Among her works, there is a trilogy about an IT specialist, Darius Kopp, and his existential struggle. Mora is married and has one daughter.
Works ===== Prose =
Works ===== Prose =
• Strange matter, Rowohlt Verlag, Reinbek 1999, • Alle Tage, Luchterhand Literaturverlag, Munich 2004, • The only man on the continent, Luchterhand Literaturverlag, Munich 2009, • The monster, Luchterhand Literaturverlag, Munich 2013, • Love among aliens, narratives. Luchterhand Literaturverlag, Munich 2016, • On the rope (Auf dem Seil), Luchterhand, Munich 2019, • Fleckenverlauf. Ein Tage- und Arbeitsbuch. Luchterhand, Munich 2021, • Muna, or Half a Life (Muna oder Die Hälfte des Lebens). Luchterhand, Munich 2023,
Screenplays
Screenplays
• The Ways of Water in Erzincan, feature film, 30 min. (1998) • Boomtown / End of the City, feature film, 30 min. (1999) • The Alibi, screenplay for a thriller shown in German TV, 90 min. (2000)
Plays
Plays
• Something like that (2003)
Audiobooks
Audiobooks
• Miss June Ruby (2005)
Essays
Essays
• About the drastic, in: BELLA triste No. 16 (2006)
Translations
Translations
• Als nur die Tiere lebten (2014), translation of Amikor még csak az állatok éltek, (2012), by Zsófia Bán. • Abendschule – Ein Fibel für Erwachsene (2012), translation of Esti iskola – Olvasókönyv felnőtteknek, (2007), by Zsófia Bán
Life and career
Dated record
Life and career
The full dated record · 2 entries
1971
Terézia Mora born at Sopron.
2005
Alle Tage - Terézia Mora ( 2005) (2005) is digitised and catalogued by Internet Archive.
Poetry lectures
• Do not die, Luchterhand Literaturverlag, Munich 2015, • The secret text. Salzburger Stefan branch Poetikvorlesung, special number publishing house, Vienna 2016,
Primary material
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reference work
- “Terézia Mora”, English Wikipedia, consulted as further reading
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- Wikidata, structured authority record Q273974: Terézia Mora
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Awards and honours
• 1997: Würth Literature Prize for her screenplay The Ways of Water in Erzincan and the Open-Mike-Literary Prize of the Berliner LiteraturWERKstatt for the tale Durst • 1999: Ingeborg Bachmann Prize for the narration Der Fall Ophelia (The case of Ophelia), contained in her first volume of stories Seltsame Materie (Strange Matter) • 2000: Adelbert von Chamisso Prize (promotional prize) • 2001: Island writer on Sylt • 2002: Jane Scraberd Prize of the Heinrich Maria Ledig-Rowohlt Foundation for her translation of Péter Esterházy's Harmonia Caelesti • 2004: Mara Cassens Prize, Prize for the Art Prize of the Academy of Arts (Berlin), Prize of the Leipzig Book Fair for her novel Alle Tage (Category: Fiction) • 2005: Prize of LiteraTour Nord • 2005: Ten-week London scholarship from the German Literature Fund, as Writer-in-Residence at Queen Mary University of London • 2006: Villa Massimo scholarship • 2006/2007: Tübingen Poetry Lecturer together with Péter Esterházy • 2007: Franz Nabl Prize • 2010: Adelbert von Chamisso Prize, Erich Fried Prize • 2011: Translation Prize of the Kunststiftung NRW for her translation by Péter Esterházy's A production novel (two production novels) from the Hungarian and at the same time for her life's work [5] • 2011: "Grenzgänger-Scholarship" by the Robert Bosch Foundation for research on The Monster2013: German Book Prize for The Monster • October 2013: German Book Prize for her novel Das Ungeheuer • 2013/2014: Frankfurt Poetics Lecturer • 2017: Bremen Literature Prize for Love Among Aliens • 2017: Preis der Literaturhäuser • 2017: Solothurner Literaturpreis • 2018: Roswitha Prize • 2018: Georg Büchner Prize, announced on 3 July 2018 by the German Academy for Language and Literature; it's one of Germany's highest literary honors and comes with an award of 50,000 euros. • 2021: Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany • 2021: Brothers Grimm Poetics Professorship
References ==== External links
References ==== External links
• http: www.tereziamora.de
de:Terézia Mora at the Erlanger Poetenfest 2009
Don Manfredo
Terézia Mora, Schriftstellerin. Das Portrait entstand bei der Verleihung des Adelbert-von-Chamisso-Preises 2010 an Terézia Mora in der Münchner Allerheiligenhofkirche
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- 1.Terézia Mora – Was bedeutet die Zweisprachigkeit für Ihr Schreiben?. Deutschlandfunk Kultur.
- 2.Krekeler, Elmar. Deutscher Buchpreis: Terézia Mora – Eine Frau schreibt sich in die Freiheit. Die Welt. 7 October 2013.
- 3.Deutsche Akademie für Sprache und Dichtung – Akademie – Presse – Neue Mitglieder. www.deutscheakademie.de.
- 4.Roman "Das Ungeheuer": Terézia Mora erhält Deutschen Buchpreis. Spiegel Online. 7 October 2013.
- 5.Terézia Mora. Uklitag.
- 6.On the Rope. Uklitag.
- 7.London-Stipendium, Deutscher Literaturfonds. Retrieved 13 April 2026.
- 8.Writers in Residence, Queen Mary University of London. Retrieved 13 April 2026.
- 9.Deutscher Buch Preis. Terézia Mora wins the German Book Prize 2013 for her novel "Das Ungeheuer". 7 October 2013.
- 10.NDR. Roswitha-Preis 2018 geht an Terézia Mora.
- 11.Terezia Mora erhält Georg-Büchner-Preis. news.ORF.at. 3 July 2018.
- 12.Deutsche Akademie für Sprache und Dichtung – Awards – Georg-Büchner-Preis. www.deutscheakademie.de.
- 13.Grimm Poetikprofessur geht an Terézia Mora. Börsenblatt. 9 February 2021.
- 14.Muna, or Half a Life. Uklitag.
- 15.Das Alibi.
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