Mirko Bonne

Mirko Bonné, born in Tegernsee in 1965, is a German writer and translator. He published novels, poetry, short stories, essays and travel journals, and translated works by authors including Joseph Conrad, Emily Dickinson, John Keats, Grace Paley, Robert Louis Stevenson and William Butler Yeats into German. His novels How We Disappear (2009), Never More Night (2013) and Lighter Than Day (2017) were nominated for the German Book Prize. His literary and translation work received, among other honors, the Prix Relay (2008), the Marie Luise Kaschnitz Prize (2010), the Rainer Malkowski Prize (2014) and the Hamburg Literature Prize for Translation (2020). In 2016, he also published an account of John Keats’s life and work featuring some previously unpublished translations.