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Angelika Overath (* 1957 in Karlsruhe) is a German author and journalist. Angelika studied in Tübingen German literature, History, Italian Studies and Cultural Studies and wrote a PhD-thesis in 1986 about the colour blue in modern literature. She lives in Sent (Unterengadin, Switzerland). Angelika Overath is married and has three children.She regularly works as Writer in Residence for the German Section in the School of Modern Languages, Newcastle University, and at Queen Mary's College, London. She also teaches creative writing for the Swiss Hyperwerk.
1996 Egon-Erwin-Kisch Prize for literary reportage
1999 Scholarship "Literatur" of the cultural foundation for Baden-Württemberg
2001 Grant by the "Förderkreises Deutscher Schriftsteller" in Baden-Württemberg
2002/2003 One-year scholarship of the Deutschen Literaturfonds, Darmstadt
2005 Thaddäus-Troll Prize
2006 Ernst-Willner-Prize at the Ingeborg-Bachmann-Competition
2006/2007 One-year scholarship of the Deutschen Literaturfonds, Darmstadt
2008 Swiss prize for independent journalism
2009 Longlist for the German Book Prize by the Börsenverein Deutscher Buchhandel
2009 Shortlist for the Schweizer Buchpreis with a short video on You Tube for the Swiss Book Prize
Das andere Blau, Zur Poetik im modernen Gedichte, Stuttgart 1987
Händler der verlorenen Farben, Lengwil 1998
Vom Sekundenglück brennender Papierchen, Lengwil 2000
Schlimme Ehen. Ein Hochzeitsbuch, aus vielen Quellen zusammengetragen (together with Manfred Koch), Frankfurt 2000 (Die andere Bibliothek 189)
Spatzenweisheit (together with Horst Munzig), Freiburg 2001
Schlaflos: das Buch der hellen Nächte (together with Manfred Koch), Lengwil 2002
Die Kunst des Einfachen (together with Manfred Koch), Freiburg 2000
Toleranz (together with Navid Kermani and Robert Schindel), Göttingen 2003
Das halbe Brot der Vögel, Göttingen 2004
Generationen-Bilder, Lengwil 2005
Nahe Tage, Göttingen 2005. Taschenbuchausgabe München 2008
Genies und ihre Geheimnisse. 100 biographische Rätsel (together with Manfred Koch and Silvia Overath), Berlin 2007
Hunde mitzubringen ist erlaubt: Ein literarischer Salon (together with Manfred Koch), Berlin 2008
Flughafenfische, Luchterhand 2009
Total Books: 7