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Born in a small German town above the Rhine river, I was always the first one on the trains to adventure in the great wide world. I went to summer schools in France, took scholarships in Italy, was a DAAD\/ Fulbright student in Middlebury, VT., a scholar at the IWT Center of Rhodes, the University of Milan, the Literaturhaus Munich ecc. As a student, I waited tables at winefests and carnival sessions to earn the money for Eurorail-passes and plane tickets to explore the continent from Greece to Gibraltar, and across the USA from coast to coast. I guess I have some Nomadic genes.
Besides traveling, I have always loved languages, reading and writing. I graduated with an MA in German, American and Italian Studies at the Johannes-Gutenberg-University of Mainz, worked as a journalist, writer, translator and interpreter, and lived part of many years on the Spanish island of Ibiza. There, I translated a book on Ibizan ethnology and wrote my PhD-thesis on the Jewish writer Claire Goll and female identity in the arts. After some stints in academic Ivory towers, I decided to get a training as a scriptwriter and wrote a number of scripts for TV-movies. In German, I also have one (award winning) novel, many short stories, essays and other non-fiction published.
For some years now, I have been living on both sides of the Big Pond, in Mainz, Germany, and Dallas, TX., where I realized that after years of TV-writing I burnt to turn back to fiction. My first short story in the English language, “Goodbye, Shoes” was published in January, and now I\u00b4m thrilled to announce my second novel –my first in English–, titled “Island of Dead Gods.”<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

See Interview by Voyage Dallas – <\/mark><\/strong>http:\/\/voyagedallas.com\/interview\/daily-inspiration-meet-verena-mahlow\/<\/mark><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Advocate Magazine Love Story<\/strong> – https:\/\/lakehighlands.advocatemag.com\/2022\/01\/31\/verena-mahlow-and-alan-love-story\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Scholarships \/ awards<\/strong> (selection)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Literary award (1st prize “Frauengeschichten”-Wettbewerb des Gustav L\u00fcbbe-Verlags) for the novel “Ein Mann f\u00fcr den Dreizehnten”
Scholarship of the KMA-Drehbuchakademie M\u00fcnchen\/Ludwigshafen (screenwriters\u00b4academy)
“Limburg”-award for “Mein Schweigen (short story)
Stipend of the Bertelsmann-foundation for the projected novel “Im Monat des KRR” (now “Island of Dead Gods”)
Martha-Saalfeld-award of the Ministery of Culture Rhenania-Palatinate
Writers\u00b4residency of Rhodes, Greece (Unesco)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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