Terézia Mora
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Terézia Mora (2010)
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| Born | (1971-02-05) 5 February 1971 (age 53) |
| Nationality | Hungarian |
| Alma mater | Humboldt University Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin |
| Occupation(s) | Screenwriter Translator Writer |
| Website | Official website |
Terézia Mora ([ˈtɛreːziɒ ˈmorɒ]; born 5 February 1971) is a German Hungarian writer, screenwriter and translator.
Terézia Mora was born in Sopron, Hungary, to a family with German roots and grew up bilingual.[1] She moved to Germany after the political changes in Hungary in 1990 in order to study Hungarian studies and drama at the Humboldt University of Berlin. Subsequently, she trained as a screenwriter at the Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin.[2]
Mora is working on a trilogy about the IT specialist Darius Kopp, of which Volume I, "The Only Man on the Continent," and Volume II, "The Monster," have already appeared.
She is a member of the German PEN Center and the Deutsche Akademie für Sprache und Dichtung, to which she was elected as a member in 2015.[3]
Since 1990 she has lived in Berlin, working as a freelance writer, writing in German.[3][4]
Mora is married and has one daughter.[2]
On 3 July 2018, it was announced by the German Academy for Language and Literature that she was to be presented with the Georg Büchner Prize, one of Germany's highest literary honors, at a ceremony in October 2018. The prize comes with an award of 50,000 euros.[9]
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