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Richard Wagner
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| Born | 10 April 1952 Lovrin, Romania |
| Died | 14 March 2023 (aged 70) Berlin, Germany |
| Occupation | Novelist |
| Nationality | German, Romanian |
| Period | 20th–21st century |
Richard Wagner (10 April 1952 – 14 March 2023) was a Romanian-born German novelist. He published a number of short stories, novels and essays.
Life and work
Wagner was a member of one of Romania's German minorities, called Banat Swabians, like his wife, Herta Müller He studied German and Romanian literature at Timișoara University. He then worked as a German language school teacher and as a journalist, and published poetry and short stories in German. He was in 1972 a co-founder and member of the Aktionsgruppe Banat, a German-speaking literary activist society.
In 1987, Wagner and Müller left Romania for West Berlin, to escape communist oppression and censorship in Nicolae Ceaușescu's Romania. They separated in 1989.
Wagner had Parkinson's disease for many years. He died in a Berlin nursery home on 14 March 2023, at age 70.
Honours
- 1987 Spezial prize of the Leonce-und-Lena-Preis
- 1988 Förderpreis of the Andreas-Gryphius-Preis
- 1989 Deutscher Sprachpreis, with Gerhardt Csejka, Helmuth Frauendorfer, Klaus Hensel, Johann Lippet, Herta Müller, Werner Söllner and William Totok
- 1990/91 Scholarship of the Villa Massimo
- 2000 Literature prize of neue deutsche literatur
- 2008 Georg Dehio Book Prize
- 2011 Donauschwäbischer Kulturpreis of Baden-Württemberg, for his life's work
- 2014 Verdienstkreuz am Bande des Verdienstordens der Bundesrepublik Deutschland
See also
In Spanish: Richard Wagner (novelista) para niños
