Jan Turovski

Jan Turovski (1939 in Bielefeld) is a German writer. Since his debut novel The Sundays of Mr. Kopanski from 1988 he has published numerous novels, poems and short stories.

Life

After attending a scientific high school, Turovski completed commercial training and voice training, opera. He also attended courses at the University of Cambridge and obtained the Cambridge University Certificate of Proficiency in English, as well as the Cambridge Diploma in English Language and Contemporary literature. During his time in England he also worked as a student trainee at the London luxury department store Selfridges Ltd. He then moved to Paris, where he attended literature lectures at the Collège de France and attended courses at the Sorbonne. He obtained the Sorbonne Diplôme de langue et civilization françaises and the Lettres Modernes.

In 1988 Turovski's late debut novel Die Sonntage des Herr Kopanski was published by the renowned Zurich publishing house Benziger. Since then he has published poems, short stories and novels, some in English and French. His novels have been published mainly by Klaus Servene since 2013. In addition, Turovski worked on die horen, The London Magazine, various poetry anthologies, as well as on Rowohlt Verlag anthology Stories between love and death.

Turovski repeatedly stayed in the United States for long periods of time. He lives in Bonn.

Awards

• Cambridge University Literary Magazine Granta Award for the short story Purgatory
• Cambridge University Literary Magazine Granta Award for the short story The Witness
• Cambridge University Literary Magazine Granta Award for the short story Blue Glass
• Prix Littéraire Européen Arthur Rimbaud 2000 for the unpublished manuscripts of the novel Sophie fatale... and the collection of poems The Blue Province

Works

• The Sundays of Mr. Kopanski, (Roman), Zurich: Benziger, 1988 ISBN 3-545-36460-7; New edition, Hamburg: edition andiamo, 2018 ISBN 978-3-7460-4307-4
• The Father's Back, (novel), Sankt Augustin: Avlos, 1995; New edition, Mannheim: Andiamo Verlag, 2013 ISBN 978-3-936625-76-9
• Vor(w)orte der Liebe, (poems), Sankt Augustin: Avlos, 1997
• Sweet Home , (short stories), Sofia: Izd.
• Berni, Bastian and Therese, (novella), Bonn: Bouvier, 2012 ISBN 978-3-416-03355-8
• Sophie fatale ..., (novel), Mannheim: Andiamo Verlag, 2014 ISBN 978-3-936625-75-2
• The proverbial life, (novel), Mannheim: Andiamo Verlag, 2014 ISBN 978-3-936625-77-6
• The long arm, (novel), Mannheim: Andiamo Verlag, 2015 ISBN 978-3-936625-64-6
• Almut's affairs, (novel), Mannheim: Andiamo Verlag, 2015 ISBN 978-3-936625-78-3
• Millinger's Bart, (novel), Mannheim: Andiamo Verlag, 2016 ISBN 978-3-936625-79-0
• Polish Villages, (Roman), Mannheim: Andiamo Verlag, 2016 ISBN 978-3-936625-80-6
• The case of Odile Féret, (novel), Mannheim: Andiamo Verlag, 2017 ISBN 978-3-936625-85-1
• Kopanski returns (novel), Hamburg: edition andiamo, 2018 ISBN 978-3-7460-8074-1
• Madame Bourgin (Roman), Hamburg: edition andiamo, 2018 ISBN 978-3-7481-1246-4
• Nowhere Point (Roman), edition andiamo, 2020 ISBN 978-3-7504-5811-6
• The trace of Louise B. (novel), edition andiamo, 2020 ISBN 978-3-7519-7408-0
• Fifth district (Paris poems), edition andiamo, 2020 ISBN 978-3-7526-7943-4
• Das rote Bonbon (Short Stories), edition andiamo, 2021 ISBN 978 -3-7534-3083-6
• Lea, Leona ... (Roman), edition andiamo, 2021 ISBN 978-3-7543-6880-0

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