Süddeutsche Zeitung: Bernhard Schlink zum 80. Geburtstag
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Bernhard Schlink
Bernhard Schlink is a German lawyer, academic, and novelist. He is best known for his novel The Reader, which was first published in 1995 and became an international bestseller. He won the 2014 Park Kyong-ni Prize.
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Born 6 July 1944 · Q76699
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2024· 3 entries
ZEIT: Bernhard Schlink: Beeindruckt Sie Aktivismus, Bernhard Schlink?
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ZEIT: "Das späte Leben": Bernhard Schlink im Gespräch
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2022· 1 entry
Publishers Weekly: Books by Bernhard Schlink and Complete Book Reviews
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2018· 1 entry
Süddeutsche Zeitung: Bernhard Schlink: Ich wollte Volksschriftsteller werden
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2014· 1 entry
Awarded Pak Kyong-ni Prize (2014).
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2010· 1 entry
His non-fiction political history, Guilt About the Past was published by Beautiful Books Limited (UK)
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2009· 2 entries
The Daily Beast: Bernhard Schlink on Inheriting the Holocaust
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Guilt about the Past, University of Queensland Press, 9 January 2009, Beautiful Books Limited (UK) February 2010 ISBN 978-1-905636-77-8
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2008· 2 entries
Australian Broadcasting Corporation: Bernhard Schlink's Homecoming
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Stephen Daldry directed a film adaptation of The Reader
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2004· 1 entry
Awarded Officer's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany (2004).
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2000· 3 entries
Awarded Honorary Award of the Heinrich Heine Society (2000).
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Awarded Evangelischer Buchpreis for The Reader (2000).
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Schlink published a collection of short fiction called Flights of Love
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1999· 1 entry
It was awarded the Welt-Literaturpreis of the newspaper Die Welt
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1998· 1 entry
Awarded Hans Fallada Prize (1998).
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1997· 2 entries
Awarded Prix Laure Bataillon (1997).
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It won the Hans Fallada Prize, a German literary award, and the Prix Laure Bataillon for works translated into French
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1995· 1 entry
Published The Reader (Der Vorleser), a novel about a teenager who has an affair with a woman in her thirties who suddenly vanishes but whom he meets again as a law student when visiting a trial about war crimes
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1993· 1 entry
Awarded German Crime Fiction Award (1993).
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1989· 1 entry
Awarded Friedrich Glauser Award (1989).
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1988· 1 entry
And in 1992 a professor for public law and the philosophy of law at Humboldt University, Berlin
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1946· 1 entry
Became a professor of dogmatic and ecumenical theology at Heidelberg University, where he would serve until his retirement in 1971
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1944· 1 entry
Born 1944-07-06.
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