Mirko Bonné

Mirko Bonné (* 1965 in Tegernsee ) is a German writer and translator.

Life and work

Mirko Bonné moved with his parents in 1975 by Bavaria to Hamburg, where he attended the Hansa -Gymnasium and graduated from high school in 1986 at the Otto- Hahn-Gymnasium in Geesthacht, before he performed community service in nursing and, among other things worked as an trading assistant, nursing care assistants and taxi drivers. Since the early nineties Bonné is a journalist and also works as a poet, novelist and translator. In his Keats, Trakl and calibration embossed poems, lyrical forms are handed down in a versatile manner, describe the Bonnes priority issues landscape, vitality and memory and conceptual question. In his prose Bonné repeatedly concerned with mechanisms of repression. As Shackleton and Camus shown in novels all the main characters Bonnes must insure their own origin only. In essays, travel journals and literary meetings in the feuilleton Bonné reflects its approaches. Foreign tours have taken him to South America, Russia, China, the USA, Iran and the Antarctic. The transmitted by it authors include Anderson, Dickinson, Keats, Cummings, Creeley, Yeats and Gherasim Luca. Poems, essays and articles on literature were in anthologies ( The Great Conrady. The book German poems. From the beginnings to the present, and others), literary journals (Bella triste et al ) and newspapers (FAZ among others ) published. Mirko Bonné is a member of the PEN center of Germany and lives in Hamburg.

Title

  • Roberta of traffic lights. Game for four voices and a speaker. Radio drama, Radio Bremen 1992
  • Langrenus. Poems. Rospo, Hamburg 1994, ISBN 3-930325-02-0.
  • Articulated creature. Poems. Rospo, Hamburg 1996, ISBN 3-930325-13-6.
  • The young Fordt. Novel. DuMont, Cologne 1999, ISBN 3-7701-4960-2.
  • A slow fall. Novel. DuMont, Cologne 2002, ISBN 3-8321-6000-0.
  • Hibiscus code. Poems. DuMont, Cologne 2003, ISBN 3-8321-6001-9.
  • The icy sky. Novel. Schöffling, Frankfurt am Main 2006, ISBN 3-89561-401-7.
  • The Republic of silver fish. Poems. Schöffling, Frankfurt am Main 2008, ISBN 978-3-89561-402-6.
  • As we disappear. Novel. Schöffling, Frankfurt am Main 2009, ISBN 978-3-89561-403-3.
  • Excursion by Cerberus. Schöffling, Frankfurt am Main 2010, ISBN 978-3-89561-404-0.
  • The jays. Narrative. Literary Quickie, Hamburg 2010, ISBN 978-3942212168.
  • Trakl Park. Poems. Schöffling, Frankfurt am Main 2012, ISBN 978-3-89561-405-7.
  • As we disappear. Radio play based on motifs of the novel, NDR, Hamburg 2012
  • No more night. Novel. Schöffling, Frankfurt am Main, 2013, ISBN 978-3-89561-406-4

Translations

  • John Keats: Works and Letters. Phillip Reclam jun., Stuttgart 1995.
  • E. E. Cummings: 39 Alphabet. Poems. Urs Engeler Editor, Weil am Rhein 2001.
  • Terry McDonagh: Kiltimagh. Selected poems. Blueprint Books, Hamburg 2001.
  • Gherasim Luca: The body echo. Poems. Urs Engeler Editor, Weil am Rhein 2004.
  • William Butler Yeats: The poems ( with M. Beyer, G. Falkner, N. Hummelt (ed. ), C. Schu sink). Luchterhand, Munich 2005.
  • Samuel Beckett: Six Poèmes / Six Poems. Wolfenbütteler translator talks, Wolfenbüttel 2006.
  • Robert Creeley: All it means forever. Poems. Young and Young, Salzburg and Vienna, 2006.
  • Rutger Kopland: Thanks be to things. Selected Poems 1966 - 2006 ( with Hendrik rust), Carl Hanser, Munich, 2008.
  • Emma Lew: hives singing. Poems. Yedermann, Munich 2008.
  • Sherwood Anderson: Winesburg, Ohio. Schöffling & Co., Frankfurt am Main 2012, ISBN 978-3-89561-232-9.
  • Emily Dickinson: love poems. Reclam, Stuttgart 2012, ISBN 978-3-15-010747-8

Publications in literary magazines

  • Dark interpretation of the bird's flight. Essay. In: Bella triste No. 24, 2009.
  • The wounded heart. Essay. In: Quart No. 18, 2011.

Awards

  • 2001 Wolfgang Weyrauch Prize at Poetry Competition " Literary March "
  • 2002 Ernst Willner Prize at the Festival of German literature Klagenfurt
  • 2004 promotion price for Berlin Art Prize
  • 2007 New York Fellowship of the German Literature Fund
  • 2008 Relay Prix du Roman d' Evasion
  • 2008 Prize of the Ernst Meister Prize for Poetry
  • 2009 Nomination for the German Book Prize ( longlist ) with As we disappear
  • 2010 Marie -Luise Kaschnitz price for the previous oeuvre. From the statement: "With rare thoughtfulness and with an almost existentialist Ernst act the books Bonnes of the great questions of human life such as loyalty and betrayal, self- design and failure. Bonnes high literary mastery is especially evident in the stylish ease and clarity, by its serious concerns are translated into moving lyrics. "
  • 2010 Writer -in- Residence Rio de Janeiro
  • 2012 Writer -in- Residence Shanghai
  • 2013 Nomination for the German Book Prize ( shortlist ) with No more night
  • 2014/2015 Artist-in -Residence of the EU climate protection project " Weather Stations "
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