What is Brigitte Kronauer?
[[File:Brigitte Kronauer (2005) cropped.jpg|thumb|Brigitte Kronauer in 2005]] '''Brigitte Kronauer''' (29 December 1940 – 22 July 2019) was a German writer. She was born in [[Essen]], Germany.<ref>{{cite news |title=Brigitte Kronauer: Primadonna? Kein bisschen |url=http://www.abendblatt.de/kultur-live/article1740024/Brigitte-Kronauer-Primadonna-Kein-bisschen.html |work=[[Hamburger Abendblatt]] |date=28 December 2010 |access-date=26 June 2012 }}</ref> In 2005, she was awarded the [[Georg Büchner Prize]]<ref>{{cite web|title=Urkundentext Brigitte Kronauer|url=http://www.deutscheakademie.de/urkundentexte/buechner/2005.html|publisher=Deutsche Akademie für Sprache und Dichtung|access-date=5 June 2012|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121106232714/http://www.deutscheakademie.de/urkundentexte/buechner/2005.html|archive-date=6 November 2012}}</ref> for her literary works. Kronauer died on 22 July 2019 in [[Hamburg]] from a long-illness at the age of 78.<ref>[https://www.pmnewsnigeria.com/2019/07/23/prize-winning-german-author-brigitte-kronauer-dies-at-78/ Award winning German author Brigitte Kronauer dies at 78]</ref> ==References== {{reflist}} ==Other websites== * [http://www.nrw-literatur-im-netz.de/datenbank/autoren/219-kronauer-brigitte.html Brigitte Kronauer in: NRW Literatur im Netz]{{dead link|date=November 2016 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} {{in lang|de}} {{bio-stub}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Kronauer, Brigitte}} [[Category:Writers from North Rhine-Westphalia]] [[Category:People from Essen]] [[Category:1940 births]] [[Category:2019 deaths]]