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Katharina Hagena

Mit 19 Jahren begann Hagena ihr Studium der Anglistik und Germanistik in Marburg, Freiburg und London, welches sie 1992 beendete. Zwei Jahre später verbrachte sie einen Forschungsaufenthalt an der Zürcher James-Joyce-Stiftung, das Stipendium erhielt sie von der Gottlieb Daimler- und Karl Benz-Stiftung. 1995 promovierte Katharina Hagena über James Joyce´ Ulysses, danach trat sie ein zweijähriges DAAD-Lektorat am Trinity College in Dublin an. Im Zeitraum von 1998–2002 lehrte sie an den Universitäten in Hamburg und Lüneburg. Gegenwärtig lebt Katharina Hagena als freie Schriftstellerin mit ihrer Familie in Hamburg.

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Caroline Wahl

Caroline Wahl (born 1995 in Mainz) is a German author. Her debut novel, 22 Bahnen, was published in April 2023 by DuMont Buchverlag. After her school days, she studied German studies and German literature in Tübingen and Berlin. After that and among other things, she worked as a publishing assistant of the Diogenes Verlag in Zürich. Her love of the sea led her to Northern Germany in 2022 where she worked for a communications agency in Rostock. Since the success of her debut novel, she lives as an independent author in the Hansestadt.

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Jane Gardam

Jane Mary Gardam was an English writer of children's and adult fiction and literary critic. She also penned reviews for The Spectator and The Telegraph, and wrote for BBC Radio. She lived in Kent, Wimbledon, and Yorkshire. She won numerous literary awards, including the Whitbread Award twice. She was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2009 New Year Honours.

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Petra Hammesfahr

Hailed as Germany’s Patricia Highsmith, Petra Hammesfahr has written more than twenty crime and suspense novels, and also writes scripts for film and television. She has won numerous literary prizes, including the Crime Prize of Wiesbaden and the Rhineland Literary Prize. Her breakthrough novel, The Sinner, was a major critical and commercial success internationally, including in Germany, where it stayed on the bestseller list for more than fifteen months. The Sinner has been adapted for television as a limited series on USA starring Jessica Biel and Bill Pullman.

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Teresa Präauer

Teresa Präauer, geboren 1979, ist Autorin und bildende Künstlerin in Wien. Sie schreibt regelmäßig für Zeitungen und Magazine zu Theater, Kunst, Literatur, Mode und Pop. Ihr Roman ›Für den Herrscher aus Übersee‹ wurde ausgezeichnet mit dem aspekte-Preis für das beste deutschsprachige Prosadebüt. Der Künstlerroman ›Johnny und Jean‹ wurde ausgezeichnet mit Droste-Literaturförderpreis und dem Förderpreis zum Hölderlinpreis 2015 und war nominiert für den Preis der Leipziger Buchmesse 2015.

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Ayelet Gundar-Goshen

Ayelet Gundar-Goshen (Hebrew: איילת גונדר-גושן) was born in Israel in 1982 and holds an MA in Clinical Psychology from Tel Aviv University. Her film scripts have won prizes at international festivals, including the Berlin Today Award and the New York City Short Film Festival Award. Her debut novel, One Night, Markovitch, won the Sapir Prize in 2013 for best debut and is being translated into five languages.

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Marlen Haushofer

Marlen Haushofer was born in Frauenstein, Molln, Austria on April the 11th, 1920. She went to a Catholic gymnasium that was turned in a public school under the Nazi regime. She started her studies on German Language and Literature, in 1940 in Vienna and later on in Graz. She married the dentist Manfred Haushofer in 1941, they divorced in 1950 but reunited in 1957. They had a son together, in addition to the one son she had brought to their “second” marriage.

Although Marlen Haushofer won prizes for her work and gained critics laud, she was an almost forgotten author until the Women's Movement rediscovered her, with special attention of the role of women in the male-dominated society themes in her work.

Die Wand (The Wall) can be seen as her

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Kristine Bilkau

Kristine Bilkau, born in 1974, studied History and Literature at Hamburg University and Tulane University, New Orleans. Her debut novel „Die Glücklichen" (The Happy Ones) about an urban family getting into the turmoils of financial crisis was awarded best debut novel of the year 2015 with the Klaus-Michael-Kühne-Preis and the Franz-Tumler-Literaturpreis, praised both by reviewers and readers, and translated into Dutch, French and Italian. Her second novel „Eine Liebe, in Gedanken" (A love in thoughts) came out in March 2018 telling a love story about a young couple in the early sixties trying to escape the constrictions and repression of german post-war society.
Kristine Bilkau lives in Hamburg.

Kristine Bilkau, 1974 geboren, studierte Geschi

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Sebastian Haffner

Sebastian Haffner (the pseudonym for Raimund Pretzel) was a German journalist and author whose focus was the history of the German Reich (1871-1945). His books dealt with the origins and course of the First World War, the failure of the Weimar Republic and the subsequent rise and fall of Nazi Germany under Hitler.

In 1938 he emigrated from Nazi Germany with his Jewish fiancée to London, hardly able to speak English but becoming rapidly proficient in the language. He adopted the pseudonym Sebastian Haffner so that his family back in Germany would not be endangered by his writing.

Haffner wrote for the London Sunday newspaper, The Observer, and then became its editor-in-chief. In 1954, he became its German correspondent in Berlin, a position w

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Trude Teige

Trude Johanne Teige is a Norwegian journalist and author of crime novels.

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Wolf Haas

Wolf Haas is the author of nine books in the bestselling Detective Brenner mystery series, three volumes of which have been made into popular German-language films. Among other prizes, the Brenner books have been awarded the German thriller prize and the 2004 Literature Prize from the City of Vienna.

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Elke Heidenreich

Elke Heidenreich is a German author, TV presenter and journalist.

She was married to Gert Heidenreich from 1965 to 1972.

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Maja Haderlap

Austrian author of Carinthian Slovenian descent. In 2011 she won the 25,000 Euro prize prestigious Ingeborg Bachmann prize at the 35th Festival of German Literature in Klagenfurt. Her award-winning poetic text is a three-generations family history, and highlights the resistance of the Carinthian Slovenes against the German Nazi Wehrmacht.

She studied German language and literature at the University of Vienna and has a PhD in Theatre Studies. As a writer, she was co-editor of many years of bi-lingual Carinthian-Slovene literary magazine 'Mladje'.

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Lucy Fricke

Lucy Tanja Fricke was born in 1974 in Hamburg, Germany. She is a writer and assistant director, known for In July (2000), Highway Society (2000) and Töchter (2021).

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Daniela Krien

Daniela Krien, geboren 1975 in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, studierte Kulturwissenschaften, Kommunikations- und Medienwissenschaften und arbeitete unter anderem als Drehbuchautorin und Cutterin. Sie lebt mit ihrem Mann und zwei Töchtern in Leipzig.

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Alena Schröder

also writes under the pen name of Benni-Mama

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Kristine Bilkau

Kristine Bilkau, born in 1974, studied History and Literature at Hamburg University and Tulane University, New Orleans. Her debut novel „Die Glücklichen" (The Happy Ones) about an urban family getting into the turmoils of financial crisis was awarded best debut novel of the year 2015 with the Klaus-Michael-Kühne-Preis and the Franz-Tumler-Literaturpreis, praised both by reviewers and readers, and translated into Dutch, French and Italian. Her second novel „Eine Liebe, in Gedanken" (A love in thoughts) came out in March 2018 telling a love story about a young couple in the early sixties trying to escape the constrictions and repression of german post-war society.
Kristine Bilkau lives in Hamburg.

Kristine Bilkau, 1974 geboren, studierte Geschi

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Takis Würger

Takis Würger, geboren 1985, ist Redakteur beim Nachrichtenmagazin »Der Spiegel«. Im Alter von 28 Jahren ging er nach England, um an der Universität von Cambridge Ideengeschichte zu studieren. Dort boxte er als Schwergewicht für den Cambridge University Amateur Boxing Club und wurde Mitglied in verschiedenen studentischen Klubs.

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Caroline Wahl

Caroline Wahl (born 1995 in Mainz) is a German author. Her debut novel, 22 Bahnen, was published in April 2023 by DuMont Buchverlag. After her school days, she studied German studies and German literature in Tübingen and Berlin. After that and among other things, she worked as a publishing assistant of the Diogenes Verlag in Zürich. Her love of the sea led her to Northern Germany in 2022 where she worked for a communications agency in Rostock. Since the success of her debut novel, she lives as an independent author in the Hansestadt.

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Daniel Glattauer

Daniel Glattauer, geboren 1960 in Wien, studierte Pädagogik (Diplomarbeit “Das Böse in der Erziehung”). Zunächst Hobby-Literat, -Liedermacher und Kellner, später Journalist, zuerst Redakteur bei der Presse, dann zwanzig Jahre Autor bei der österreichischen Tageszeitung „Der Standard“. Zwischendurch und jetzt erst recht: Schriftsteller. Verheiratet, ein großes Kind, leider keinen Hund mehr, dafür fünf indische Laufenten im Landhaus im niederösterreichischen Waldviertel.

Bücher (u.a.): „Die Ameisenzählung“ (2001), „Darum“ (2003), „Die Vögel brüllen“ (2004), „Der Weihnachtshund“ (Neuausgabe 2004), „Schauma mal” (2009), „Theo. Antworten aus dem Kinderzimmer (2010)”, „Ewig Dein” (2012) und „Die Wunderübung” (2014).

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Christian Schünemann

Christian Schünemann, geboren 1968 in Bremen, studierte Slawistik in Berlin und Sankt Petersburg, arbeitete in Moskau und Bosnien-Herzegowina und absolvierte die Evangelische Journalistenschule in Berlin. Beim Internationalen Wettbewerb junger Autoren, dem Open Mike 2002, wurde ein Auszug aus dem Roman ›Der Frisör‹ preisgekrönt. ›Daily Soap‹ ist der vierte Fall des Frisörs. Christian Schünemann lebt in Berlin.

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Amira Ben Saoud

Amira Ben Saoud studierte Klassische Philologie, Kunstgeschichte und Komparatistik in Wien. Sie war Chefredakteurin des Popkulturmagazins The Gap und Kulturredakteurin beim Standard. »Schweben« ist ihr erster Roman.

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Sunjeev Sahota

Sunjeev Sahota is a British novelist. Sahota was born in 1981 in Derby, and his family moved to Chesterfield when he was seven years old. His paternal grandparents had emigrated to Britain from the Punjab in 1966. After finishing school, Sahota studied mathematics at Imperial College London. As of January 2011, he was working in marketing for the insurance company Aviva.

Sahota had not read a novel until he was 18 years old, when he read Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children while visiting relatives in India before starting university. After Midnight's Children, Sahota went on to read The God of Small Things, A Suitable Boy and The Remains of the Day. In an interview in January 2011, he stated:
It was like I was making up for lost time – not t

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Hannah Lühmann

Hannah Lühmann, geboren 1987, hat Philosophie in Berlin und Paris studiert. Sie schrieb unter anderem für die "Süddeutsche Zeitung", die "Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung" und "Die Zeit". Von 2014 bis 2025 war sie als leitende Redakteurin im Kulturressort bei der "Welt" und "Welt am Sonntag" tätig. Hannah Lühmann lebt als freie Journalistin mit ihrer Familie in Berlin

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Verena Keßler

1988 in Hamburg geboren, 2008-2009 Ausbildung zur Werbetexterin an der Texterschmiede Hamburg, 2012-2015 Studium deutsche Literatur und germanistische Linguistik an der Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, 2016 bis 2020 Studium literarisches Schreiben am Deutschen Literaturinstitut Leipzig.

“Die Gespenster von Demmin” erschien im August 2020 bei Hanser Berlin, wurde u.a. für den aspekte-Literaturpreis nominiert und mit dem Kranichsteiner Jugendliteratur-Stipendium ausgezeichnet, außerdem ins Polnische, Griechische & Französische übersetzt. Taschenbuchausgabe bei dtv. Mini-Serie in Entwicklung bei Oma Inge Film.

“Eva” erschien im März 2023 bei Hanser Berlin und zeitgleich als Hörbuch bei DAV, das Taschenbuch erschien im September 2024 bei Kein & A

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Henrik Szanto

Henrik Szanto is a very succesful slam poet in Austria and Germany, and in 2016 he realesed his first book. He is half Finn and half Hungarian but grew up in Germany.

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Maja Haderlap

Austrian author of Carinthian Slovenian descent. In 2011 she won the 25,000 Euro prize prestigious Ingeborg Bachmann prize at the 35th Festival of German Literature in Klagenfurt. Her award-winning poetic text is a three-generations family history, and highlights the resistance of the Carinthian Slovenes against the German Nazi Wehrmacht.

She studied German language and literature at the University of Vienna and has a PhD in Theatre Studies. As a writer, she was co-editor of many years of bi-lingual Carinthian-Slovene literary magazine 'Mladje'.

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Arno Geiger

Geiger grew up in the village of Wolfurt near Bregenz. He studied German studies, ancient history and comparative literature at the universities of Innsbruck and Vienna. He has worked as a freelance writer since 1993. From 1986 to 2002, he also worked as a technician at the annual Bregenzer Festspiele summer opera festival.

In 1996 and in 2004, he took part in the Ingeborg-Bachmann-Preis competition at Klagenfurt.

In October 2005, he was the recipient of the first Deutscher Buchpreis[1] literature prize (awarded by the booksellers' association of Germany) for his novel Es geht uns gut.

Geiger lives in Wolfurt and Vienna.

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Antje Rávic Strubel

Antje Rávic Strubel (geb. 1974) lebt und arbeitet als Schriftstellerin in Potsdam. Nach dem Abitur machte sie in Berlin eine Ausbildung zur Buchhändlerin, bevor sie an der Universität Potsdam und der New York University Literaturwissenschaften, Amerikanistik und Psychologie studierte und 2001 ihr Studium abschloß. In New York arbeitete sie als Beleuchterin an einem Off-Off-Theater in Greenwich Village, das später zum Schauplatz ihres ersten Romans „Offene Blende“ wurde. Mit Erscheinen des Buches entschied sie sich für einen Autorinnamen; sie ergänzte ihren bürgerlichen Namen um den Namen Rávic, der eine Erfindung ist. Er bezeichnet eine weitere Identität, die ihrer Person während des Schreibens zukommt.

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Sherko Fatah

Sherko Fatah was born in Berlin in 1964 as the son of an Iraqi father and a German mother. He spent his early childhood in East Germany and also spent longer periods of time in Iraq. In 1975 his family moved to West Germany. Sherko Fatah studied philosophy and art history in Berlin, where he currently lives as a writer.

Awards:

* 1999 Berlin Literary Colloquium Stipend
* 2001 Aspekte Literature Prize
* 2002 Special German Critic’s Award for the Most Notable Prose Debut
* 2003 Alfred Döblin Stipend
* 2007 Hilde Domin Prize for Literature in Exile
* 2008 Nomination for the Prize of the Leipzig Book Fair

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Anette Strohmeyer

Anette Strohmeyer, geboren 1975 in Göttingen, lebt nach einer 10-jährigen Station in Düsseldorf nun in Kopenhagen. Sie verbrachte viele Jahre in Skandinavien, Neuseeland und den USA und ist seit 2012 hauptberuflich als Autorin tätig. Ihre Spezialität ist die Vorortrecherche: So hat sie in Haiti an einer Voodoo-Zeremonie teilgenommen, bei einer Dschungel-Tour Termiten gegessen, im Hochspannungslabor Blitze erzeugt und ist und durch den berüchtigten Selbstmordwald am Fuße des Fuji gewandert.

Die Autorin schreibt auch unter folgenden Pseudonymen:

- Anne Nørdby (Skandinavien-Krimi)
- A.P. Sterling (Dark-Fantasy)

Ihre Webauftritte sind:
www.anette-strohmeyer.de , www.ondragon-consultig.com

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Emine Sevgi Özdamar

Emine Sevgi Özdamar (born 10 August 1946, in Malatya, Turkey), is a Turkish-German actress, director and author.

Özdamar has received a lot of recognition for her work. A lover of poetry, she found great inspiration in the works of Heinrich Heine and Bertolt Brecht, especially from an album of the latter's songs which she had bought in the 1960s in Berlin. She later decided to study with Brecht's disciple Benno Besson in Berlin, where she currently resides.

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Didi Drobna

Didi Drobna was born in Bratislava, Slovakia, but lived all her life in Vienna, Austria. She studied German Literature, Communication and Creative Writing in Vienna. By day she is an IT-project manager, by night she works currectly on her second novel "Als die Kirche den Fluss überquerte", already the project was awarded with a literature grant by the Federal Chancellery of Austria.
Didi won also some other literature prizes and grants, her first novel "Zwischen Schaumstoff" was awarded with the newcomer literature grant by the Austrian Ministry of Culture and was selected to be read in many Austrian schools.
When the madness is high she rants about writing & reading here:
http://howitreallyistobeanartist.tumb...

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Petra Hartlieb

Petra Hartlieb wurde 1967 in München geboren und ist in Oberösterreich aufgewachsen. Sie studierte in Wien Psychologie und Geschichte und arbeitete danach als Pressefrau bei verschiedenen Verlagen in Wien und Hamburg, später als Literaturkritikerin für den NDR, Ö1 und die Financial Times. Seit 2001 betreibt sie mit ihrem Mann eine Buchhandlung in Wien.

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Doris Knecht

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