About Christoph Peters
Born 1966. Christoph Peters is a German writer and painter.
Christoph Peters (born 11 October 1966 in Kalkar) is a German author of novels and short stories. His debut novel, Stadt Land Fluss was published in 1999, and won the Aspekte-Literaturpreis for the best German literary debut. It was followed by a collection of short stories in 2001, and, in 2007, his first novel to be published in English, The Fabric of Night (Random House). Peters lives in Berlin. He received the Rheingau Literatur Preis in 2009 and the Friedrich-Hölderlin-Preis in 2016. In 2025 he was awarded the Schubart-Literaturpreis for his novel Innerstädtischer Tod.
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German writer
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Christoph Peters was born on 11 October 1966 in Kalkar.
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Christoph Peters is a writer and painter.
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Christoph Peters is German.
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