Knauss' first work Oh Elise or love is a solitary business was awarded the 1982 prize of the New Literary Society in Hamburg. Her bestseller Evas Cousine was listed in the New York Times "Books of the Year" in 2002. In July 2006, Knauss was awarded the "Saarland Art Prize." The jury stated: "The clear composition of her novels is especially worth mentioning. Her great themes have been thoroughly researched; Sibylle Knauss must be attested to an excellent literary treatment of her subjects. For her novels, she chooses mainly historical figures of women whose ways of life she describes in a particular way. Sibylle Knauss' language is free of ideological ballast, her novels read with pleasure." SaarlandMinister of Culture, Jürgen Schreier, described Knauss as "an outstanding literary ambassador of our country." Knauss was listed in the list of 50 major Saarlanders by the Landesarbeitsgemeinschaft Kommunale Frauenbeauftrag in Saarland.
Reviews
Edelgard Abenstein, Deutschlandradio Kultur: "Knauss' talent is always reflected in the successful combination of facts and fiction, such as in "Eden," where she presents herself as a master of the biographical novel, whose greatest strengths lie in the life of the adventurer Mary Leakey, where style, wit, and color sparkle."
Selected publications
Oh Elise, or, Loves is a lonely business. Novel. Hoffmann & Campe, Hamburg 1981,
The master's room. Novel. Hoffmann & Campe, Hamburg 1983
School of narrative - a guide. Fischer TB, Frankfurt 1995 ;
Over Neuaufl.: School of narrative. A guide for novels and screenplay authors. Authors House, Berlin 2006
The night with Paul. Novel. Droemer Knaur, Munich 1996
The missionary. Novel. Hoffmann & Campe, Hamburg, 1997
Eva's cousin. Novel. Claassen, Munich 2000
Feet in the fire. Novel. Claassen, Hamburg 2003
The Marquise de Sade. Novel. Hoffmann & Campe, Hamburg, 2006,
Eden. Novel. Hoffmann & Campe, Hamburg 2009
Stranger Novel. Hoffmann & Campe, Hamburg 2012
The love memory. Novel. Klöpfer & Meyer, Tübingen, Germany 2015
Further information
Helga Abret: In the twilight of distance and proximity. On Sibylle Knauss' novel "Charlotte Corday". In: Helga Abret, Ilse Nagelschmidt : Between distance and proximity. A generation of authors in the 80s.. Peter Lang, Bern et al., 1998, , pp. 211-234.
Katharina Schnell: On Subjectivity in the Reception and Interpretation of Works by the example of the author Sibylle Knauss. Proseminar work. Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany.
Simplice Agossavi: External hermeneutics in contemporary German literature with examples by Uwe Timm, Gerhard Polt, Urs Widmer, Sibylle Knauss, Wolfgang Lange and Hans Christoph Buch. Röhrig, St. Ingbert 2003, .
