living german writers - Empfehlungen??

[Dave Monroe]

... either you're pelted with e-mail, or you wade through th' digest.
Not sure which way is more difficult here.  But, at least with the
digest, I don't have that comulsion towards eternal vigilance, so ...
Well, hardly up on my contemporary German authors (among many other
things ...), although I did neglect to put money on Gunter Grass for the
Nobel Prize this past round (having called Kenzaburo Oe a few years back
... but Szymborska? Fo? Who'd've thunk it? But 2001, now there's an
opportunity for a Statement ... Bei Dao, perhaps ([just going by buzz
here], but mebbe even that Thomas Pynchon ...).  But notice Peter
Handke's name here, is it worth hunting down his The Goalie's Anxiety at
the Penalty Kick?  A friend in the know thought the Wim Wenders film
thereof would appeal, so ... but anyone familiar with Christoph
Ransmayr?  Dog King?  Sounded interesting ...