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He became widely known for his books on Masuria (2001) and East Prussia (2005), as well as the bestseller \u00abKalte Heimat: Die Geschichte der deutschen Vertriebenen nach 1945\u00bb (2008, tr.: \u00abKalte Heimat: The History of German Expellees after 1945\u00bb). In 2020, he published the highly acclaimed book \u00abFlucht. Eine Menschheitsgeschichte\u00bb (tr.: \u00abFlight: A History of Humanity\u00bb). In 2026 his most personal book to date, \u00abElsas Welt\u00bb (tr.: \u00abElsa\u2019s World\u00bb), will be released. His work has received numerous awards, including the Georg Dehio Book Prize (2008), the NDR Kultur Non-Fiction Book Prize (2020), and the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung \u00abThe Political Book Prize\u00bb (2021). Andreas Kossert lives in Berlin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Last update: 2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":101480,"template":"","jct-role":[1080],"jct-origin":[495],"jct-ilb-years":[595,601,602,1025],"class_list":["post-38987","authors","type-authors","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","jct-role-author","jct-origin-germany","jct-ilb-years-2001-en","jct-ilb-years-2007-en","jct-ilb-years-2008-en","jct-ilb-years-2026-en"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Andreas Kossert &#8211; international literature festival berlin<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/literaturfestival.com\/en\/authors\/andreas-kossert\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Andreas Kossert &#8211; international literature festival berlin\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Andreas Kossert is a historian and author. 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