Anne Duden (born 1942) is a German writer who moved with her family to West Germany in 1954.
A member of the German Academy for Language and Literature, she has been a guest professor at the University of Hamburg and has lectured on poetry in Paderborn and Zürich.
[1][2][3][page needed] Borb on 1 January 1942, Anna Duden was raised in Berlin and then in Ilsenburg.
She graduated from high school in Oldenburg and went off to study German at the Free University of Berlin.
[5] Her reputation as an innovative writer began with the publication of her collection of stories Übergang (1985) and was followed in 1985 by her novel Das Jadasschaf depicting the anguish aroused by recent German history.