Lambert Schlechter

Lambert Schlechter, April 2009

Lambert Schlechter (born 1941) is a Luxembourg author who has written in both German and French but has now adopted French as his preferred language. His work includes poetry, novels, essays and contributions to newspapers and magazines.[1]

Biography

Born on 4 December 1941 in Luxembourg City, Schlechter studied philosophy and literature in Paris and Nancy before teaching at the Lycée Classique in Echternach. His first works, Das große Rasenstück (1981), a collection of poems, and Buntspecht im Hirn (1982), in prose, were followed by articles, short stories (Partances, 2003) and novels (Le silence inutile, 1991) in French. He was vice-president of the Luxembourg section of Amnesty International, Luxembourg representative in the International Service for Human Rights in Geneva, member of the Société des écrivains luxembourgeois de langue française (SELF), president of the Conseil national du livre and vice-president of the Conseil national du livre. He has won numerous awards and distinctions including the Servais Prize in 2007 for his novel Le murmure du monde et autre fragments. In 2014 he achieved Batty Weber Prize.[2]

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External links

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References

  1. "Schlechter, Lambert", Luxemburger Lexikon, Editions Guy Binsfeld, Luxembourg, 2006. (German)
  2. "Batty-Weber-Preis 2014 geht an Lambert Schlechter" (in German). wort.lu. 1 April 2014. Retrieved 22 April 2014.