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Nora Wagener

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Nora Wagener (born 1989) is a Luxembourg short story writer, novelist, children's writer and playwright who writes mainly in German. She has won many awards including the 2017 Prix Servais for Larven (Larvae), a collection of short stories, which was judged to be the most significant literary work published in Luxembourg in 2016.[1][2]

Biography

Born in Luxembourg on 21 March 1989, she was brought up in Mersch. After matriculating from the Lycée Robert-Schuman in 2008, she studied creative literature and journalism at the University of Hildesheim, Germany, graduating in 2012. The following year, she received a diploma in Luxembourg language and culture from Luxembourg's Institut National des Langues.[1]

In 2011, she published the novel Menschenliebe und Vogel, schrei in which the narrator reflects on life and her own identity while staying with her grandmother. In 2015, she wrote Visions, a play featuring a depressed woman, which was presented in Esch-sur-Alzette under the direction of Claire Thill. The same year she published E. Galaxien with short stories about Erwin, Edgar and Eleonore whose lives develop in different environments.[1]

In 2016, after collaborating with fellow writer Luc Caregari on the children's story d’Glühschwéngchen in Luxembourgish, she published Larven, a collection of 16, sometimes quite dramatic, romantic short stories.[1] The book earned her not only the prestigious Prix Servais but also, under the Lëtzebuerger Bircerhpräis, the Prix Coup de coeur.[3]

References

  1. ^ a b c d Jehin, Ludvine. "Nora Wagener" (in French). Centre national de littérature, Mersch. Retrieved 23 November 2017.
  2. ^ "Nora Wagener remporte le prix Servais 2017" (in French). Le Quotidien. 17 May 2017. Retrieved 23 November 2017.
  3. ^ "Die Gewinner des "Lëtzebuerger Buchpräis"". Tageblatt (in German). 16 November 2017. Retrieved 23 November 2017.


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