Annette Pehnt
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Germany
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writer
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and literary critic. She lives in Freiburg
Freiburg
Freiburg im Breisgau is a city in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. In the extreme south-west of the country, it straddles the Dreisam river, at the foot of the Schlossberg. Historically, the city has acted as the hub of the Breisgau region on the western edge of the Black Forest in the Upper Rhine Plain...
in Baden-Württemberg
Baden-Württemberg
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After graduating from school in 1986 Pehnt performed voluntary social work
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in Belfast
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(Northern Ireland
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). After a year living in Scotland
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, she studied English, Celtic studies and German language
German language
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and literature at the universities in Köln
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, Galway
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(Ireland), Berkeley
University of California, Berkeley
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(California
California
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) and Freiburg
Freiburg
Freiburg im Breisgau is a city in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. In the extreme south-west of the country, it straddles the Dreisam river, at the foot of the Schlossberg. Historically, the city has acted as the hub of the Breisgau region on the western edge of the Black Forest in the Upper Rhine Plain...
(Breisgau). After her masters degree and the first national examination in 1994, graduation followed in 1997 at the University of Freiburg
University of Freiburg
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with a work on Irish literature
Irish literature
For a comparatively small island, Ireland has made a disproportionately large contribution to world literature. Irish literature encompasses the Irish and English languages.-The beginning of writing in Irish:...
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Since 1992 Annette Pehnt, married and mother of three children, has lived as a literature critic and self-employed author in Freiburg and teaches at the university there. For her literary work, she was awarded the Förderpreis in 2001, the artist's prize of Northrhine-Westphalia and the Mara-Cassens-prize (2002).
Books
- Insel 34, München 2003 ISBN 3-492-24336-3
- Ich muß los, München 2001 ISBN 3-492-23609-X
- Mad Sweeney. Aneignung und Transformation eines mittelalterlichen Stoffes in der modernen irischen LiteraturIrish literatureFor a comparatively small island, Ireland has made a disproportionately large contribution to world literature. Irish literature encompasses the Irish and English languages.-The beginning of writing in Irish:...
, WVT, Wiss. Verl. Trier 1999 (Freiburg i. B., Univ., Diss., 1997) ISBN 3-88476-352-0 - John SteinbeckJohn SteinbeckJohn Ernst Steinbeck, Jr. was an American writer. He is widely known for the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Grapes of Wrath and East of Eden and the novella Of Mice and Men...
, München 1998 ISBN 3-423-31010-3