Presenter of the Accolade 2011

	Sibylle Lewitscharoff © Stefan Ulrich Meyer

Sibylle Lewitscharoff
born 1954 as the daughter of a Bulgarian father and a German mother and now at home in Berlin, secured her place in the front row of contemporary Germanlanguage literature in little over a decade. Raised in Stuttgart-Degerloch, she completed her university entrance qualifications and went on to study divinity at Freie Universität Berlin. During this period, she spent twelve months in Buenos Aires and Paris respectively. After graduation, Lewitscharoff initially worked as an accounting clerk in an advertising agency, starting to write features and plays for the radio as a sideline. She published her first book with texts and silhouettes in 1994. Lewitscharoff celebrated her big literary break in 1998 with the publication of her novella Pong, for which she received the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize. One children’s book and three novels followed. Her most recent novel, Apostoloff, was awarded the 2009 Leipzig Book Fair Prize. Lewitscharoff has also received numerous prizes and awards, most recently the Berlin Literature Prize 2010, which comes with an appointment to the Heiner Müller Guest Professorship for German-Language Poetics at Freie Universität Berlin. Sibylle Lewitscharoff has been a member of the German Academy of Language and Literature since 2007 and a member of the Academy of the Arts, Berlin, since 2010.

Selected publications
36 Gerechte. C. Steinrötter, Münster 1994
Pong. Berlin Verlag, Berlin 1998
Der höfliche Harald. Berlin Verlag, Berlin 1999
Montgomery. DVA, Stuttgart 2003
Consummatus. DVA, Stuttgart 2006
Apostoloff. Suhrkamp, Frankfurt am Main 2009