Wilhelm Genazino | |
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Died | 12 December 2018 Frankfurt, Germany | (aged 75)
Education | Johann Wolfgang Goethe University |
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Wilhelm Genazino (22 January 1943[1] – 12 December 2018) was a German journalist and author. He worked first as a journalist for the satirical magazine pardon and for Lesezeichen. From the early 1970s, he was a freelance writer who became known by a trilogy of novels, Abschaffel-Trilogie, completed in 1979. It was followed by more novels and two plays. Among his many awards is the prestigious Georg Büchner Prize.