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Roger Manderscheid

Died in 2010

Roger Manderscheid was born on 1 March 1933 in Itzig, the son of a wheelwright. After passing his baccalauréat at the Athénée in 1952, he was a supply teacher at Consdorf, then a railway employee, before joining the Ministry of Labour in 1956 and, from 1977 to 1993, the Ministry of Culture, where he launched the national literary competition. A poet and author of radio plays in German, he switched to Luxembourgish in the eighties. He received the Batty Weber Prize in 1990 and died on 1 June 2010.

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