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Wilhelm Genazino (born 22 January 1943, Mannheim^[1]) is a German journalist and author.

In the 1960s, he studied German, philosophy and sociology at Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main. He worked as a journalist until 1965. During this time, he worked, inter alia, for the satirical magazine Pardon and co-edited the magazine Lesezeichen. Since 1970 he has been working as a freelance author. In 1977 he achieved a breakthrough as a serious writer with his trilogy Abschaffel. In 1990 he became a member of the Academy for Language and Poetry inDarmstadt. After living in Heidelberg for a long time, Genazino moved to Frankfurt in 2004. That same year he was awarded the Georg Büchner Prize,^[2] the most prestigious award for German literature.

Contents [hide] 1 Selected works 1.1 In Translation 2 Honours 3 References

[edit]Selected works

• Laslinstrasse, 1965


• Abschaffel-Trilogie:
  
  
  
  • Abschaffel, 1977
  
  
  • Die Vernichtung der Sorgen, 1978
  
  
  • Falsche Jahre, 1979
  
  
  
  


• Der Fleck, die Jacke, die Zimmer, der Schmerz, 1989 (The mark, the jacket, the room, the pain)


• Die Kassiererinnen, 1998 (Road works ahead)


• Ein Regenschirm für diesen Tag, 2001 (An umbrella for one day)


• Eine Frau, eine Wohnung, ein Roman, 2003 (A woman, a flat, a novel)