Anant Kumar

Anant Kumar ( born September 28, 1969 in Motihari / Bihar ) is a German writer of Indian origin. He lives in Kassel.

Life

The son of an Indian family of teachers from Bihar studied from 1991 to 1998 at the University of Kassel ( GHK ) German Studies and graduated with a thesis on Alfred Döblin's epic Manas from.

In his literature Kumar tried the experience of a stranger in German society to connect with the Indian culture. His first wife stranger, stranger characterized by sharp-tongued observations and mediating understanding. The aspect of the observing satire and fine gloss runs as a constant on through Kumar's work. With his work Zeru - A seven-day history Kumar should look to the literary form of the epic, and describes in a colorful splendor of the daily life of an African boy in the midst of wild and ancient myths of the dark continent.

Anant Kumar is a member of the Association of German Writers and the Literary Society Hesse. For several years, Kumar occurs regularly at schools and correctional facilities. At the North American universities and in the EU Kumar regularly conducts writing workshops and poetry workshops.

Publications

In German

• Stranger woman - strange man. An Indian seals in Kassel. Wiesenburg, Schweinfurt 1997, ISBN 3932497007
• Kassel texts. Poems, short stories, observations, commentaries, sketches, reflections. Wiesenburg, Schweinfurt 1998, ISBN 3932497120
• The Indian woman. Prose. Wiesenburg, Schweinfurt 1999, ISBN 3932497325
• And ... a piece for you. A picture book for children and adults. Geest, Ahlhorn 2000, ISBN 3934852297
• The galloping herd of cows: essays and other prose. Wiesenburg, Schweinfurt 2001, ISBN 3932497589
• The boundless stories. Wiesenburg, Schweinfurt 2003, ISBN 3937101047
• Three pounds of chicken. Grotesques, commentaries, satires. Five Finger Ferlag, Leipzig 2005, ISBN 3980893456
• Zeru. A seven-day history. Wiesenburg, Schweinfurt 2005, ISBN 3937101780
• India I. Sweet. Iatros, Mainz 2006 ISBN 393743948X
• India II Sauer. Iatros, Mainz 2006, ISBN 3937439498
• An Indian in Germany. Wiesenburg, Schweinfurt 2008, ISBN 9783939518914
• The moon and his boredom. A picture and coloring book for the big and little children and for the child in the adult. EPLA, Ganderkesee 2009, ISBN 9783940554291
• ARCHETYPE. EPLA, Ganderkesee 2011, ISBN 9783940554611
• India - a world power! - With internal weaknesses. The New Morning, Rudolstadt 2012, ISBN 9783954800216
• Ibiza: conversations, poems and reflections. Projects -Verlag, Halle ( Saale), 2013, ISBN 9783954863310
• Frido - A German voice. The New Morning, Rudolstadt, 2013, ISBN 9783954800353

In English

• Stories Without Borders Wiesenburg, Schweinfurt 2010, ISBN 3942063417

Awards

• 2002: Finalist of the Würth Literature Prize, ( Tübingen poetry chair )
• 2003: Poeticus short stories price, Spittal an der Drau
• 2003: Scholarship in the competition Schreiber island, Sylt - source Rantum
• 2004: Finalist, May- Ayim Award ( Poetry ), Berlin
• 2006: Rudolf- Descher spring, the annual award of the author's Association IGDA
• 2010: Finalist, 14 short stories Menu Competition, h s events GmbH
• 2011: completion of work scholarship " Frido - A GERMAN VOICE ( stories ), Hessian Ministry for Science and Art, Wiesbaden
• 2012: Finalist, Geertje Potash -Suhr Prize for prose in German, SCALG, Colorado
• 2013: Visiting Professor " Visiting Adjunct Lecturer II", Summer School Taos, The University of New Mexico in consortium with California State University Long Beach 25 June 25 - July 26, 2013