Raoul Biltgen

Luxembourgish actor and writer

Raoul Biltgen (born 1 July 1974, Esch-sur-Alzette) is a Luxembourgish actor and writer.

He has written several theatrical plays and lives currently in Vienna.

He has already been nominated three times for the Friedrich Glauser Prize in the "Short Crime Novel" category (2014, 2017, 2020) and once in the "Best Crime Novel" category (2018);^[1] in 2021, The Dormant Pole was awarded the Friedrich Glauser Prize for Best Short Crime Novel.^[2] For his youth play Robinson - meine Insel gehört mir, he won the 2017 Dutch-German Children's and Youth Drama Prize, awarded at the Kaas and Kappes Festival. His play The Free Fall was shortlisted for the German-language EURODRAM in 2018.^[3] His play Wolf made it onto the shortlist for the 2020 Dutch-German Children's and Youth Playwriting Prize. His play Zeugs was awarded the Audience Award of the Mülheim Children's Play Prize by the youth jury in 2022.

Works

Einer spricht: Monologe. Op der Lay, Esch-sur-Sûre 2007
perfekt morden: Roman. Molden, Wien 2005
Heimweg: Trilogien. Op der Lay, Esch-sur-Sûre 2000
Manchmal spreche ich sie aus: Gedichte. Op der Lay, Esch-sur-Sûre 1999

References

^ "GLAUSER-Preise - Das Syndikat - Verein zur Förderung deutschsprachiger Kriminalliteratur". Archived from the original on 2019-12-05. Retrieved 2020-05-05.
^ Die besten Kriminalromane 2021, boersenblatt.net, 26 April 2021. Retrieved 26 April 2021.
^ "Preisträger 2020" (in German). Retrieved 2020-05-05.