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Peter Wortsman

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Short Stories, Travel, Literature & Fiction

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Peter Wortsman is the author of a novel (Cold Earth Wanderers, 2014), thee collections of stories (A Modern Way to Die, 1991, second edition, 2019, Footprints in Wet Cement, 2017, and Stimme und Atem/Out of Breath, Out of Mind, forthcoming in 2019), two stage plays (Burning Words, premiered in 2006, and in German translation in 2014, and The Tattooed Man Tells All, first staged in 2018), a travel memoir (Ghost Dance in Berlin, 2013), as well as a work of nonfiction (The Caring Heirs of Doctor Samuel Bard, 2019).

Wortsman is also a literary translator from the German into English of works by von Chamisso, the Brothers Grimm, Heine, E.T.A. Hoffmann, Kafka, Kleist, Musil, and Mynona, among others.

He was a 1973 Fulbright Fellow at the Albert L ...more

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Ghost Dance in Berlin Wins IPPY

I am honored and pleased to report that my travel memoir "Ghost Dance in Berlin: A Rhapsody in Gray," published by Travelers' Tales in 2013, just won a silver 2014 IPPY (Independent Publishers Book Award) in the travel essay category.

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	Tales of the German Imagination from the Brothers Grimm to Ingeborg Bachmann 3.75 avg rating — 115 ratings — published 2012 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Ghost Dance in Berlin: A Rhapsody in Gray 3.40 avg rating — 43 ratings — published 2012 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Odd Birds & Fat Cats: by Peter Wortsman (Goodreads Author), Aurélie Bernard Wortsman (Illustrator) 4.67 avg rating — 12 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Modern Way to Die: Small Stories and Microtales 3.46 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 1991 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Cold Earth Wanderers 4.10 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 2014 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Footprints in Wet Cement it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 4 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Stimme und Atem/ Out of Breath, Out of Mind it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 4 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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“Besides, 99 hundredths of all the work done in the world is either foolish and unnecessary, or harmful and wicked."

Herman Melville”
― Peter Wortsman

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message 1: by Peter

Feb 22, 2013 11:57AM

Hey, check out my new books:

"Ghost Dance in Berlin: A Rhapsody in Gray," just out from Travelers' Tales

http://www.amazon.com/Ghost-Dance-Ber...

and

"Tales of the German Imagination: From the Brothers Grimm to Ingeborg Bachmann"

http://www.amazon.com/Imagination-Bro...

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