Dorothea Dieckmann was born in Freiburg in 1957. She has lived in Hamburg, Cologne, Rome,[2]Tübingen, and Stuttgart. Prior to becoming a full-time writer Diechmann worked as a high school teacher.
12"Hamburgerin wird neue Stadtschreiberin"[Hamburg is new city clerk] (in German). Sächsische Zeitung. 2009-05-03. Retrieved 2015-04-17. Die Hamburger Schriftstellerin und Kritikerin Dorothea Dieckmann wird neue Stadtschreiberin in Dresden. Die 51-Jährige wurde von einer Jury unter 73 Bewerbern ausgewählt.
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Michel Faber (2008-06-21). "Scenes from an execution". The Guardian (UK). Archived from the original on 2015-04-17. Dieckmann is an essayist and critic of high standing in Germany, and has also written prize-winning fiction which has not yet been translated into English. No surprise there: a mere 3% of books published in English are translations and most of those are non-literary enterprises. Guantánamo has just won the aptly named Three Percent prize for translated foreign fiction, thanks to the midwifery of Soft Skull Press, a small New York publishing house specialising in controversial subjects, and Tim Mohr, staff editor at Playboy magazine.
