About Peter Gosse
Born 1938. Peter Gosse is a German poet and writer.
Peter Gosse (born 6 October 1938 in Leipzig) is a German poet, prose author and essayist.
Life Peter Gosse first completed a study of high frequency technology in Moscow. After working as an engineer, he became a freelance writer in East Germany from 1968. Since 1985 he has been a lecturer of poetry at the German Institute for Literature in Leipzig, where he became the commissioned Director in 1993. Gosse is a member of the International PEN and since 2008, deputy President of the Sächsischen Akademie der Künste (Saxon Academy of the Arts).
Works
Awards Heinrich Heine prize of the Ministry for culture of the GDR 1985 Heinrich Mann Prize of the Academy of Arts, Berlin 1991
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