May Those Who Are Looking Find Us
Thilo Krause’s new poems explore his childhood and youth in the GDR, investigating the fingerprints history leaves on objects and people with an eye for detail that is both tender and ...
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Thilo Krause was born in Dresden in 1977 and lives in Zurich. In 2012 he received the Swiss Literature Award for his debut Und das ist alles genug (And All of That`s Enough), the Clemens Brentano Prize of the city of Heidelberg in 2016 and the ZKB Schiller Prize. In 2018, Hanser published his book of poems Worüber wir reden, wenn es gewittert, for which he was awarded the Peter Huchel Prize. thilokrause.ch
Down the Elbe
How do you come to terms with the place you grew up in when it feels foreign to you?
A novel about our Country
After years away, a young couple returns to the strange rocky ...
What We Talk About When It Thunders
“Thilo Krause lifts things out of everyday life — and makes them shine.”
Raoul Schrott
“Autumn. / In the streets / the moon-starved meet / We recognise each other / by how ...