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Clemens Meyer


Born
in Halle an der Saale, Germany
August 20, 1977

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Genre
Literature & Fiction, Short Stories, Contemporary

Influences
Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Jack London, Charles Bukowski ...more


Meyer was born in 1977 in Halle an der Saale. His studies at the German Literature Institute, Leipzig, were interrupted by a spell in a youth detention centre. He has worked as a security guard, forklift driver and construction worker before he became a published novelist.

Meyer won a number of prizes for his first novel Als wir träumten (As We Were Dreaming), published in 2006,[2] in which a group of friends grow up and go off the rails in East Germany after the fall of the Berlin Wall. He received the Rheingau Literatur Preis in 2006.

His second book, Die Nacht, die Lichter (All the Lights, 2008), was translated by Katy Derbyshire and published by independent London publisher And Other Stories in 2011.[3] It won the Leipzig Book Fair Prize ...more

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Average rating: 3.74 · 3,043 ratings · 419 reviews · 24 distinct works • Similar authors
While We Were Dreaming
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3.95 avg rating — 1,580 ratings — published 2006 — 14 editions
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All the Lights
3.65 avg rating — 420 ratings — published 2008 — 21 editions
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Dark Satellites
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3.48 avg rating — 360 ratings — published 2017 — 10 editions
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Bricks and Mortar
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3.33 avg rating — 309 ratings — published 2013 — 12 editions
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Die Projektoren
3.51 avg rating — 168 ratings — published 2024 — 2 editions
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Gewalten: Ein Tagebuch
3.28 avg rating — 85 ratings — published 2010 — 4 editions
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Clemens Meyer über Christa ...
3.84 avg rating — 37 ratings — 4 editions
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Stäube
3.62 avg rating — 34 ratings — published 2021
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Nacht im Bioskop
3.76 avg rating — 25 ratings — 3 editions
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Rückkehr In Die Nacht
3.75 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 2013 — 2 editions
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