Gerhard Falkner
/Germany, 1951Gerhard Falkner, born in 1951. Between years 1981-89 he published three volumes of poetry; so beginnen am körper die tage; der atem unter der erde and wemut, that were followed by a deliberate silence until 1996. He co-edited an anthology of the contemporary American poetry Am lit, Neue Literatur aus den USA. 2016 he was awarded the prize "Deutscher Buchpreis" for his novel Apollokalypse.