Matthias Nawrat

Matthias Nawrat was born in Opole, Poland, in 1979 and emigrated to Bamberg with his family at the age of ten. He has published several novels and a volume of poetry. His debut novel, “Wir zwei allein” (2012), received the Adelbert von Chamisso Promotion Prize. “Unternehmer” (2014) was nominated for the German Book Prize and won the Kelag Prize and the Bayern 2 Wortspiele Prize. Further honors include the Alfred Döblin Medal for “Die vielen Tode unseres Opas Jurek” (2015), the European Union Prize for Literature (2020), and the Fontane Literature Prize (2023). “Der traurige Gast” (2019) was nominated for the Leipzig Book Fair Prize. In 2026, Nawrat received the Berlin Literature Prize for his body of work.