Bernhard Schlink

Bernhard Schlink

Bernhard Schlink is a German lawyer, academic, and novelist. He is best known for his novel The Reader, which was first published in 1995 and became an international bestseller. He won the 2014 Park Kyong-ni Prize.

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Lifespan
1944 – Present
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Background

Born in
Bielefeld
Educated at
Heidelberg UniversityFreie Universität BerlinUniversity of FreiburgKurfürst-Friedrich-Gymnasium (Heidelberg)
Awards
🏆 Honorary Award of the Heinrich Heine Society🏆 Pak Kyong-ni Prize🏆 Officer's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany🏆 Q137449821🏆 Hans Fallada Prize
Doctoral Advisors
🎓 Ernst-Wolfgang Böckenförde

Timeline

  • 1944

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