Lambert Schlechter

Lambert Schlechter, April 2009

Lambert Schlechter (born 1941) is a Luxembourg author who has published some 25 books written in French, most of them published in France and two written in German published in Luxembourg. His work includes poetry, novels, short stories and essays. A great number of contributions to newspapers, magazines and anthologies in different countries. Since 2006 he is working on a greater prose project under the general titel "Le Murmure du monde": a collection of literary, philosophical and autobiographical fragments; so far three volumes have been published, vol. IV and V will be published in spring 2016, VI and VII are in preparation.[1]

Biography

Born on 4 December 1941 in Luxembourg City, Schlechter studied philosophy and literature in Paris and Nancy before teaching philosophy, French language and literature 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.

He has been invited to more than hundred Literature & Poetry Festivals all over the world. (see details in the special section in the French version of Wikipedia).

In April 2015 his house in Eschweiler (Luxembourg) was destroyed by a huge blast, thousands of books and nearly all his manuscripts were annihilated.

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Works

Prizes and distinctions

since 2001 Chevalier des Arts & des Lettres, France

Nominations

Books in translation

Armenian :

Italian :

Bulgarian :

English and Bosnian in preparation

a certain number of single poems translated (in anthologies and magazines) into Russian, Slovenian, Croatian, Bosnian, Spanish, German, Rumanian

Contributions in anthologies and magazines

Bibliography

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.
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