Volker Braun
Volker Braun (author page at Amazon
), winner in 2000 of the
prestigious Georg Büchner Prize, started his career in the
former German Democratic Republic (GDR) but soon had difficulties
with the authorities because he criticized their view of the world. His recent books include Tumulus (Burial
Mound, Suhrkamp, 1999) and Lustgarten Preußen: Ausgewählte
Gedichte (Pleasure Garden Prussia: Selected Poems, Suhrkamp,
2000). He lives in Berlin and also publishes plays and prose. (2000)
AGNI has published the following work by Volker Braun:
