Jan Koneffke (born 19 November 1960) is a German novelist and translator.

Life Koneffke was born on 19 November 1960 in Darmstadt. He's the son of . He finished his Abitur in 1980 at the in Darmstadt. After that he studied philosophy and german philology at the Free University of Berlin, which he finished 1987 with a master's degree. He had a Villa Massimo scholarship after which he lived seven years in Rome. Since 2003 he's been living in Vienna and Bucharest.

Awards 1987: Leonce-und-Lena-Preis 1990: Sponsorship associated with the Friedrich-Hölderlin-Preis 1990: Alfred-Döblin-Stipendium 2005: Offenbacher Literaturpreis 2013: 2016: Uwe Johnson Prize 2022:

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