Alina Bronsky
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| Born | 1978 (age 38–39) Yekaterinburg, Russia |
| Language | German |
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Alina Bronsky pen name is a Russian-born German writer. The rights of Bronsky’s novels were counted in more than 15 countries, they appear among others in the US and Italy in both print and audio format. Her debut novel Scherbenpark (2008), or Broken Glass Park (2010), has received wide critical acclaim.
Bronsky was born 1978 in Yekaterinburg, Russia, an industrial town at the foot of the Ural Mountains in central Russia, and spent her childhood in Marburg and Darmstadt. After dropping out of medical school, Bronsky worked as an advertising copywriter and in newspaper editing. Alina Bronsky is 37 years old, divorced, lives with her boyfriend in Berlin and has three children. Although she writes in German, she speaks Russian with her children. Bronsky explained that she sees herself as two separate people: the German speaking self deals with her professional and occupational matters while the Russian speaking self deals with family and emotional matters. She established a pen name to facilitate this persona.
Alina Bronsky’s works have been managed by the well-known Frankfurt literary agents Georg Simader, her current lector is Olaf Petersenn. By the time she had finished her first novel, she sent an email to three lecturers, of which all three subsequently requested the manuscript. Two of them finally agreed for a publication, which means a truly exceptional early recognition in these days.
The first written novel by Bronsky was Scherbenpark, also known as Broken Glass Park, telling a story about a seventeen-year-old girl named Sascha Naimann who struggles to adapt to her new life after the murder of her mother and moving from Russia to Germany. Sascha battles with the importance of taking care of her siblings and getting revenge on her mother’s murderer. Bronsky's debut novel Broken Glass Park (Europa, 2010) was described by the Boston Globe as "a vivid description of contemporary adolescence under pressure." Broken Glass Park was nominated for the prestigious Ingeborg Bachmann Award in 2008 and for the German Young Adult Literary Prize in 2009. The novel was adapted into a movie starring Jansa Fritzi Bauer. The recognition gained from Bronsky’s debut novel paved the way for her second novel.
Following the success of Broken Glass Park, Bronsky's The Hottest Dishes of the Tartar Cuisine (Europa, 2011) was long-listed for the German Book Prize in 2010, named a favorite read of 2011 by The Wall Street Journal and The Huffington Post, and was selected as one of Publishers Weekly's Ten Best Books of the Year. Described as "mordantly funny" by the San Francisco Chronicle, The Hottest Dishes of the Tartar Cuisine is the story of three unforgettable women whose destinies are tangled up in a family dynamic that is at turns hilarious and tragic. Alina Bronsky's third novel Just Call Me Superhero, which tells the story of a young man's complicated relationship with the members of a support group he has joined following an accident, was published by Europa Editions in the fall of 2014. The Boston Globe refers to it as "a story of redemption, and of learning, slowly, to be comfortable in one’s own skin." Her young adult novels "Spiegelkind" and "Spiegelriss" belong to the mystery-adventure genre. As being part of a coming-of-age trilogy, the novels center the 15-year-old protagonist's dangerous search for her missing mother and the discovery of the world of the mysterious "Phees".
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