Friedrich Christian Delius

Friedrich Christian Delius (13 February 1943 – 30 May 2022), also known by his pen name F.C. Delius, was a German novelist, short story and non-fiction writer and poet. He wrote books about historic events, such as the 1954 FIFA World Cup, and RAF terrorism. Four of his novels were translated into English, including The Pears of Ribbeck and Portrait of the Mother as a Young Woman. His awards include the Georg Büchner Prize of 2011.

Biography Delius was born in Rome, where his father was pastor of the German Protestant Church. He grew up in Wehrda (since 1971 among the constituent communities of Haunetal) and Korbach in the state of Hesse. He studied German literature at the Free University of Berlin and at Technische Universität Berlin, and in London. He published poetry beginning at age 18, and appeared at the last meetings of the Gruppe 47 at age 21, as the second-youngest participant. The Siemens group went to court against the 1972 documentary satire Unsere Siemens-Welt. the Joseph Breitbach Prize, the Georg Büchner Prize in 2011, and the Critics Prize. He was a member of the Freie Akademie der Künste Hamburg, the Deutsche Akademie für Sprache und Dichtung In 2022, he left the PEN Centre Germany after 50 years of membership. Delius received the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany in 2017. Since the late 1970s, he divided his time between Berlin and Rome.

Delius died on 30 May 2022 in Berlin, at the age of 79.

Work Delius published more than 35 books. In Der Sonntag, an dem ich Weltmeister wurde, he wrote about the German victory in association football at the 1954 FIFA World Cup, and his Deutscher Herbst trilogy was about the RAF terrorism. 1994 (The Sunday I Became World Champion) in Three Contemporary German Novellas 2006 Bildnis der Mutter als junge Frau (Portrait of the Mother as a Young Woman) 2013 Die linke Hand des Papstes (The Pope's Left Hand)