Karen Duve was born in Hamburg in 1961. She trained as a tax inspector, worked as a factory worker and proofreader for a newspaper, and drove a cab for 13 years. She is the author of numerous novels as well as several non-fiction and children’s books and works in a wide variety of genres: science fiction, crime, development, fantasy, and historical novels. She writes for various publications and often appears on TV programs, especially on the subject of animal welfare. <\/p>\n\n
Her debut \u00bbRegenroman\u00ab (Eng. \u00bbRain\u00ab, 2004) was published in 1999 and immediately became a bestseller. This was followed by \u00bbDies ist kein Liebeslied\u00ab (2002; Eng. \u00bbThis Is Not a Love Song\u00ab, 2005), \u00bbDie entf\u00fchrte Prinzessin\u00ab (2005; tr: The Kidnapped Princess), and \u00bbTaxi\u00ab (2008), all bestsellers and characterized by straightforward, ironic language. \u00bbTaxi\u00ab tells the story of an aimless young woman who accidentally gets into the cab trade and finds herself confronted with countless people and life. The first non-fiction book, \u00bbAnst\u00e4ndig essen\u00ab (2011; Eng. \u00bbEating Decently\u00ab), is based on a self-experiment: the author spent a year trying out different types of healthy and ethically correct food, from organic to vegetarian to vegan. \u00bbFr\u00e4ulein Nettes kurzer Sommer\u00ab (2018; tr: Miss Nice\u2019s Short Summer), a novel portrait of the poet Annette von Droste-H\u00fclshoff, received much critical acclaim for its intensive research and linguistic presentation, a mixture of contemporary language, idioms of the time and the author’s characteristic humor. In \u00bbSisi\u00ab (2022), her second historical novel, Duve portrays the Empress of Austria-Hungary as a free spirit. According to \u00bbtaz\u00ab, the novel is characterized by \u00bbDuve’s narrative sound, that emphatically laconic, latently ironic tone in which a superior authorial voice is always perceptible\u00ab.<\/p>\n\n
Duve’s novels have been translated into 14 languages. The film version of \u00bbTaxi\u00ab was released in cinemas in 2015 and \u00bbRegenroman\u00ab and \u00bbDies ist kein Liebeslied\u00ab were adapted for the theater. In 2017, Duve received the Kassel Literature Prize for Grotesque Humor for the novel \u00bbMacht\u00ab (2016; tr: Power). \u00bbFr\u00e4ulein Nettes kurzer Sommer\u00ab was awarded the Carl Amery Prize, the D\u00fcsseldorf Literature Prize and the Solothurn Literature Prize, while \u00bbSisi\u00ab was awarded the Walter Kempowski Prize for Biographical Literature in 2023. <\/p>\n\n
The author lives in M\u00e4rkische Schweiz.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":81838,"template":"","jct-role":[1080],"jct-origin":[495],"jct-ilb-years":[906],"class_list":["post-82784","authors","type-authors","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","jct-role-author","jct-origin-germany","jct-ilb-years-2024-en"],"yoast_head":"\n