Peter Gosse

Peter Gosse (born 6 October 1938 in Leipzig) is a German poet, prose author and essayist.

Life
Peter Gosse first completed a study of high frequency technology in Moscow. After working as an engineer, he became a freelance writer in East Germany from 1968. Since 1985 he has been a lecturer of poetry at the German Institute for Literature in Leipzig, where he became the commissioned Director in 1993. Gosse is a member of the International PEN and since 2008, deputy President of the Sächsischen Akademie der Künste (Saxon Academy of the Arts).

Awards

 * Heinrich Heine prize of the Ministry for culture of the GDR 1985
 * Heinrich Mann Prize of the Academy of Arts, Berlin 1991