Luxembourgish author Nora Wagener has been announced as the first writer from the Grand Duchy to win a residency programme at prestigious literary institution Literarischen Colloquium Berlin (LCB).
The initiative was developed from the Centre National de Littérature and the Luxembourg Embassy of Berlin, with the financial support of the Oeuvre de Secours National Grande-Duchesse Charlotte.
From 1 September until 30 November 2015, Nora Wagener will occupy the authors' residence, becoming the first author of Luxembourg to take part in the residency programme aimed at germanophone authors up to the age of 35. Nico Graf participated in a six-month scholarship at the LCB, at the proposal of Ludwig Harig and and Walter Höllerer.
For Wagener the writer's residence represents her second this year, after previously holding a residency programme at the International Writers' and Translators' House in Latvia in March 2015, as part of the cultural programme of the EU presidencies in Latvia and Luxembourg.
In return, with the support of the Luxembourgish Ministry of Culture and Latvian translator Silvija Brice, the author translated the works of German writers Alfred Doblin, Günter Grass, Hermann Hesse, Franz Kafka, Judith Hermann, Robert Musil and Patrick Süskind into Latvian.
Photo by Patrick Galbats (Nora Wagener)
