Pavel’s Letters

Monika Maron

1999

Something is wrong between me and the story I want to write. Whatever subject I touch on, after five or four, sometimes even two pages, either the story throws me out or I throw myself out. As if I had no business being in it. As if my desire to put together a picture for myself of the overall story from photographs, letters and Hella’s memories…

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Monika Maron

b. 1941

German-born Monika Maron is a novelist, essayist, short story writer, and playwright. In 1951 she moved with her family from West to East Berlin, where, years later, she studied theater and art history. She then worked as a director’s assistant and as a journalist. Unable to publish her early works in East Berlin, Maron moved to Hamburg on a temporary visa, returning in 1992 to a unified city. She was awarded the Kleist Prize in 1992 and the Friedrich Hölderlin Prize in 2003.

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