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Peter Gosse (born 6 October 1938 in Leipzig) is a German poet, prose author and essayist.

Peter Gosse first completed a study of high frequency technology in Moscow.^[1] After working as an engineer, he became a freelance writer in East Germany from 1968. Since 1985 he has been a lecturer of poetry at the German Institute for Literature in Leipzig, where he became the commissioned Director in 1993. Gosse is a member of the International PEN and since 2008, deputy President of the Sächsischen Akademie der Künste (Saxon Academy of the Arts).

• Gosse, Peter (1996). Gleisskörper : Gedichte (in German). Halle: Mitteldeutscher Verlag. ISBN 3-354-00916-0. OCLC 36216761.
• Gosse, Peter (2001). Seinsgunst : Gedichte (in German). Halle: Mitteldeutscher Verlag. ISBN 3-89812-092-9. OCLC 51842357.
• Gosse, Peter (1998). Phantomschmelz : Lyrik & Kurzprosa (in German). Halle: Mitteldeutscher Verlag. ISBN 3-932776-24-0. OCLC 40378178.
• Gosse, Peter (1986). Erwachsene Mitte : Gedichte, Geschichten, Stücke, Essays (in German). Leipzig: P. Reclam. ISBN 3-379-00032-9. OCLC 16801878.
• Gosse, Peter (1990). Standwaage : Gedichte (in German). Halle: Mitteldeutscher Verlag. ISBN 3-354-00635-8. OCLC 24518459.
• Gosse, Peter (1997). Dein eurasisches Antlitz Schriften zu bildender Kunst und Literatur (in German). Leipzig. ISBN 978-3-9805299-8-3. OCLC 75807260.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
• Gosse, Peter (2003). Neles Selen Bilder sichten (in German). Halle (Saale). ISBN 978-3-89812-179-8. OCLC 249441605.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)

• Heinrich Heine prize of the Ministry for culture of the GDR 1985
• Heinrich Mann Prize of the Academy of Arts, Berlin 1991