DR SABINE KÖLLMANN
Writer and Independent Scholar

Photo: Hannah Schlenker
Sabine Koellmann lives and works in London.
Education
She did her MA in French, Spanish and History at the University of Cologne, Germany, graduating with a thesis on ‘The Role of the Intellectual in Les Mandarins by Simone de Beauvoir’ (Die Rolle des Intellektuellen in ‘Les Mandarins’ von Simone de Beauvoir), followed by a PhD at the University of Zürich, Switzerland, with a thesis on ‘Literature and Politics. Mario Vargas Llosa’ (Literatur und Politik. Mario Vargas Llosa, published by Peter Lang, Bern, in the series Perspectivas Hispánicas).
Field of interest
Sabine’s research focuses on narrative fiction and its role in society. A specialist in the work of Mario Vargas Llosa, she has also published on rhetoric in literature, worked in translation and written programme notes for choral concerts. Her personal interests include art, music, dance and their interrelations with literature.
Current project
She currently works on comparing fictional accounts of the experience of dying written in different periods, countries and languages within Western literature, establishing continuities and differences. Her work reaches across the divide of disciplines into the health humanities, exploring the variety of narrative techniques that writers use to narrate from inside the dying consciousness, and to what effect.
Languages
German, English, French, Spanish