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She received the Robert L. Kahn Poetry Prize 2013 from the Society for Contemporary American Literature in German. In 2020 she was named the \u003cstrong\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.literaturbuero-nrw.de\/kalender\/verleihung-else-lasker-schueler-lyrikpreis-2020\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"\u003eElse Lasker-Schüler Poetry Laureate\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e in Wuppertal, Germany. 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Originally published in German as \u003cspan class=\"style\"\u003eRühlings Erwachen\u003c\/span\u003e by the Verlag für Berlin-Brandenburg • Potsdam in 2005, the book \u003cspan class=\"style\"\u003eHave We Possibly Met Before? And Other Stories\u003c\/span\u003e is now available in the United States. The book offers seventeen short stories that surprise, shock, question conventions, and always end in an unexpected way.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"Body\"\u003eSee below what others are saying about this captivating book, or go to Susanna Piontek’s homepage at \u003ca title=\"http:\/\/www.susannapiontek.net\/\" href=\"http:\/\/www.susannapiontek.net\/\"\u003esusannapiontek.net\u003c\/a\u003e to learn more about her work.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch1 class=\"paragraph_style_3\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReviews about the Author and Her Work\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h1\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"paragraph_style_4\"\u003eLife is Life is Life: Susanna Piontek’s Short Stories\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"paragraph_style_4\"\u003eHave We Possibly Met Before? is the title of a selection of short stories, written by the German author Susanna Piontek, and translated recently into English by Guy Stern. The title itself is a phrase uttered in one of the stories and indeed, even if each of them has its own characters and contexts, these stories immediately seem familiar to the reader. Yes, actually, we have met these people before as colleagues, neighbors, and friends.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"paragraph_style_4\"\u003ePiontek’s view on life is refreshingly realistic. With unflinching exactness she describes everyday life situations we all know very well. With moral authority she points out little details that evoke a complete atmosphere. In a certain way we walk into her stories like guests into a living room, but only to realize that things are not as they seem, and that we will never get what we want. There is—and that is the distinctiveness of almost all her stories—a turning point. A precise moment, usually at the very end, where the reader understands that underneath the reality he knows, there exists another one: a whole underworld of complex feelings and motivations that invites the reader to pose questions, to see things differently.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"paragraph_style_4\"\u003eNothing to win and nothing to lose. But must we really accept life just as it is or as it appears to us?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"paragraph_style_4\"\u003eIn her unsentimental language Piontek narrates the often grotesque stories of people who, all of a sudden, are forced to reflect on what is really going on in their lives. In reality, at every moment, we do have the capacity or the freedom to decide our way of living and thinking, our very own distinctive way to be in the world. Often it just seems to be easier to disclaim this right and to hide behind a common behavior than to make changes.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"paragraph_style_4\"\u003eWith great sensibility, but also a strong sense of dark humor, Piontek shows the delicate moments when a man or a woman abruptly find themselves alone on earth, forced to contemplate life without the help of conventions.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"paragraph_style_4\"\u003eBut, of course it is not always up to us to change things and to become a better or deeper person.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"paragraph_style_4\"\u003eIn the face of evil, man is helpless. In one of the most amazing stories, The Evil Child, a little girl kills her beloved guinea pig. She does this with the intention to end the abuse her older brother inflicts on her. But her terrible sacrifice backfires. As soon as she tells him, he threatens to kill her grandmother in order to make her obey his evil demands.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"paragraph_style_4\"\u003eNo way out.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"paragraph_style_4\"\u003eThe moral dilemma is insoluble.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"paragraph_style_4\"\u003eAlmost every one of Piontek’s stories ends with a final question mark that I understand to mean: listen, dear reader, do you think the story is done now? No story is ever complete. Stories are supposed to continue; your own story continues and at the very end there will be nothing else then, over and over again, but a new question mark.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"paragraph_style_5\" style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003eStefanie Golisch, author\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"paragraph_style_4\"\u003e...exquisite portraits in miniature [...] often laced with delightful black humor and surprise endings of a sort familiar to anyone who is fond of the O.Henry style of fiction. Most of their themes are the ordinary stuff of daily life: love and loneliness, greed and sorrow, sexuality, betrayal, child obesity, deceit, even murder as misplaced revenge. While Piontek’s fiction often leaves the reader open-mouthed at their conclusion, the events in them are all easily imaginable. A woman who deceives her lover in an effort to persuade him to leave his wife, while, at the same time, his wife is deceiving him. The haunting murder of a small girl’s guinea pig and what it says about the cruelty of children and within families. The title story, which is the most haunting and most European of the collection, recalls the horror that has shaped and defined so much of the modern age.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"paragraph_style_6\"\u003eJack Lessenberry, Professor of Journalism at Wayne State University, and a contributing editor and columnist for \u003cspan class=\"style\"\u003eThe Metro Times, The Traverse-City Record Eagle, \u003c\/span\u003eand\u003cspan class=\"style\"\u003e The Toledo Blade.\u003c\/span\u003e He also works for \u003cspan class=\"style\"\u003eMichigan Radio\u003c\/span\u003e and has published widely in \u003cspan class=\"style\"\u003eVanity Fair, Esquire, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe,\u003c\/span\u003e and \u003cspan class=\"style\"\u003eThe Oakland Press\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"Body\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"style\"\u003eSusanna Piontek holds us spellbound by her mastery of the form of the narrative miniature. Our human, all-too-human traits are the hunting ground for her psychological tracings. In her short stories she reveals herself as a master of surprise endings, illusion-free descriptions of settings and black humor\u003c\/span\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"paragraph_style_6\" style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003eMathias Jung, German author, philosopher, and therapist\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"paragraph_style_4\"\u003eThe strength of Susanna Piontek’s texts lies in these messages which are hidden in her everyday stories. Crime scenes children’s room, TV couch, dentist’s chair. At these respectable locations skullduggeries, deception, in some instances, murder are planned and carried out. Human beings interpret their lives as an experiment. How far do they dare to go?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"paragraph_style_4\"\u003eIn the wake of the spontaneous laughter which some of the stories evoke, shock often follows.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"paragraph_style_4\"\u003eThe human beings, not the events stand in the center. Even though the stories are exiting, surprising, suspenseful, they are not being told for their own sake, but for the sake of the human beings to whom the author extends her sympathy. This sympathy makes the stories of Susanna Piontek unforgettable.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"paragraph_style_6\" style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003eChaim Noll, German-Israeli author\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch1 class=\"paragraph_style_3\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h1\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"Body\"\u003eSusanna Piontek was born in Bytom, Poland and immigrated to Germany in 1965. 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