Michael Krüger (writer)

Michael Krüger was born in 1943 in Wittgendorf, Saxony, Germany.^[1] He grew up in Berlin.^[2]

After completing secondary schooling, he was apprenticed to a publisher and later studied philosophy and literature.^[1]

From 1962 to 1965 Krüger worked as a bookseller in London.^[2]

From 1968 he worked as an editor at the publishing house Carl Hanser Verlag, becoming director in 1986. He was also head of fiction publishing.^[1]

In 1972 he published his first poems, with his first collection, Reginapoly, appearing in 1976 and his first collection of stories Was tun: Eine altmodische Geschichte (What shall we do: An old-fashioned story) in 1984. Several stories, novels and translations followed.^[1]

Krüger's work has garnered many important accolades, including the 1986 Toucan Prize and the 1996 Prix Médicis étranger.^{[citation needed]}

Krüger wrote the introduction to the 2010 New York Review of Books edition of Jakov Lind's Soul of Wood.^{[citation needed]}

From 1975 he became a jury member of the European literary award Petrarca-Preis.^{[citation needed]}

He is also a juror for the Zbigniew Herbert International Literary Award.^[3][4]

• Krüger, Michael; Drawert, Kurt (2001). Archive des Zweifels : Gedichte aus drei Jahrzehnten (in German). Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp. ISBN 3-518-39795-8. OCLC 50474040.
• —— (2003). Kurz vor dem Gewitter : Gedichte (in German). Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp. ISBN 3-518-41456-9. OCLC 52911248.
• —— (2007). Die Turiner Komödie Bericht eines Nachlaßverwalters ; Roman (in German). ISBN 978-3-518-45876-1. OCLC 180151476.
• —— (2007). Unter freiem Himmel : Gedichte (in German). Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp. ISBN 978-3-518-41912-0. OCLC 173071346.
• —— (2008). Reden und Einwürfe : Gedichte (in German). Frankfurt am Main: Insel. ISBN 978-3-458-19309-8. OCLC 262889460.
• —— (2010). Ins Reine : Gedichte (in German). Berlin: Suhrkamp. ISBN 978-3-518-42168-0. OCLC 657596926.
• —— (2013). Umstellung der Zeit : Gedichte (in German). ISBN 978-3-518-42394-3. OCLC 856902497.
• —— (2016). "Hellwach gehe ich schlafen" hundert Gedichte (in German). ISBN 978-3-518-46722-0. OCLC 962180677.
• —— (2017). Das falsche Haus eine Novelle (in German). Berlin: Suhrkamp Verlag. ISBN 978-3-518-24070-0. OCLC 994229551.
• —— (2018). Einmal einfach : Gedichte (in German). ISBN 978-3-518-42798-9. OCLC 1020069897.
• —— (2021). Im Wald, im Holzhaus : Gedichte (in German). ISBN 978-3-518-43005-7. OCLC 1264649566.
• Morselli, Guido; Gschwend, Ragni Maria; —— (2021). Dissipatio humani generis oder Die Einsamkeit Roman (in German). Berlin: Suhrkamp Verlag. ISBN 978-3-518-22529-5. OCLC 1265001212.
• —— (2021). Im Wald, im Holzhaus : Gedichte (in German). ISBN 978-3-518-43005-7. OCLC 1264649566.
• —— (2022). Was in den zwei Wochen nach der Rückkehr aus Paris geschah : eine Erzählung (in German). ISBN 978-3-518-47230-9. OCLC 1304455326.

• German Poet, Novelist, and Publisher Michael Kruger (audio, interview, The Leonard Lopate Show, 2008)
• Rutten, Tim (6 February 2008). "Between the lines of a writer's life". Los Angeles Times. (Review of The Executor)
• (in German) Michael Krüger: Poems at Lyrikline.org