born in Darmstadt in 1953, lives and works in Munich as an author and translator from English and French. She has received numerous awards for her work, including the Mara Cassens Prize of the Literaturhaus Hamburg (1998), twice the Tukan Prize of the City of Munich (2003, 2018) and the Franz Hessel Prize (2019) for her novel ‘Der Vogelgott’ (2018), with which she was also shortlisted for the German Book Prize. "Vera. Eine Erinnerung" is her first book published by Residenz Verlag.
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