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Helga M. Novak
Helga M. Novak, born in 1935, grew up in the German Democratic Republic, was expelled in 1966 as one of the first poets, lived in Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia, Portugal, Poland and now lives near Berlin, where she still writes.
Helga M. Novak has won numerous awards and her fiction and poetry have been widely anthologized.
Awards
Droste Award of the City of Meersburg
Honorary citizen of the City of Erkner
Bremen Literature Award
Kranichstein Literature Award
Roswitha Medal of the City of Bad Gandersheim
Brandenburg Literature Award
Gerrit Engelke Award of the City of Hanover
Christian Wagner Award
Saeume Literature Award
Ida Dehmel Literature Award





