Marica Bodrožić
Marica Bodrožić (born 1973) is a German writer of Croatian descent. She was born in in Cista Provo, Croatia in the former Yugoslavia. She moved to Germany as a child and currently lives in Berlin. Bodrožić writes primarily in the German language. She is fluent in multiple genres, including essays, novels, poems, and stories. She has worked as a literary translator and a teacher of creative writing. One of her best known works is the novel Kirschholz und alte Gefühle (A Cherrywood Table) which received the EU Prize for Literature. The novel has been translated into Italian by Stefano Zangrando for Mimesis (2017). In 2017, Marica Bodrožić signed the Declaration on the Common Language of the Croats, Serbs, Bosniaks and Montenegrins. Works Italian translations Awards Bodrožić's awards include: 2013 Kranichsteiner Literaturpreis 2015 European Union Prize for Literature 2015 Literaturpreis der Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung 2021 2022 , Dresden Memberships PEN Centre Germany References Further reading External links 1973 births Living people Croatian women writers 20th-century German women writers 20th-century Croatian women writers 21st-century German women writers 21st-century Croatian women writers 20th-century German writers 20th-century Croatian writers 21st-century German writers 21st-century Croatian writers Signatories of the Declaration on the Common Language