Silke Scheuermann

Silke Scheuermann
Silke Scheuermann reading at the Erlanger Poetenfest 2014
Born	June 15, 1973 Karlsruhe
Occupation	Author, Poet
Genre	Fiction, Poetry
Notable works	The Hour Between Dog and Wolf (novel)

Silke Scheuermann is a German poet and novelist. Born in Karlsruhe in 1973, she was educated in Frankfurt, Leipzig, and Paris. She is best known for her debut novel Die Stunde zwischen Hund und Wolf (The Hour Between Dog and Wolf), which has been translated into ten languages including English. She has won numerous German and European literary prizes and fellowships, including the Georg-Christoph-Lichtenberg-Preis, the Leonce-und-Lena-Preis, the Hölty Prize, the Bertolt-Brecht-Literaturpreis, and a Villa Massimo fellowship.

Works

• Wovon wir lebten. Novel. Schöffling, Frankfurt, 2016
• Und ich fragte den Vogel. Poems, Schöffling, 2015
• Skizze vom Gras. Poems, Schöffling, 2014
• Die Häuser der anderen. Novel. Schöffling, 2012
• Shanghai Performance. Novel. Schöffling, Frankfurt, 2011.
• Emma James und die Zukunft der Schmetterlinge. Children's book. Illustrations by Franziska Harvey. Fischer Verlag, Frankfurt, 2009.
• Die Stunde zwischen Hund und Wolf. Novel. Schöffling Verlag, Frankfurt/Main 2007.
  • The Hour Between Dog and Wolf, translated by Lucy Renner Jones, Seagull Books (February 15, 2018), ISBN 978-0857424730.
• Reiche Mädchen. Stories. Schöffling Verlag, Frankfurt/Main 2005.
• Der zärtlichste Punkt im All. Poems. Suhrkamp Verlag, Frankfurt/Main 2004.
• Der Tag, an dem die Möwen zweistimmig sangen. Poems. edition suhrkamp, Suhrkamp Verlag, Frankfurt/Main 2001.