Richard Wagner (novelist)

Richard Wagner
Born 10 April 1952 (1952-04-10) (age 59)
Lovrin, Romania
Occupation Novelist
Nationality German, Romanian
Period 20th-21st century

Richard Wagner (born April 10, 1952 in Lovrin, Romania) is a Romanian-born German novelist. He has published a number of short stories, novels and essays.

A member of Romania's German minority, like his eventual wife, he studied German and Romanian literature at the Timişoara University. He then worked as a German language school teacher and as a journalist, and published poetry and short stories in German. He was also a member of Aktionsgruppe Banat, a German-speaking literary society.

In 1987, he left Romania for West Berlin with Herta Müller, his wife at that time, due to communist oppression and censorship in Nicolae Ceauşescu-ruled Romania. He still lives in Berlin.

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