Notable FigureFemale
Iris Hanika
born 1962
About this person
Wikipedia SummaryIris Hanika is a German writer. She was born in Würzburg, grew up in Bad Königshofen and has lived in Berlin since 1979, where she studied Universal and Comparative Literature at the FU Berlin. She was a regular contributor to German periodicals like Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung and Merkur. Hanika won the LiteraTour Nord prize and the EU Prize for Literature for her novel Das Eigentliche. In 2020, she was awarded the Hermann-Hesse-Literaturpreis for her novel Echos Kammern. In 2021, she won the Leipzig Book Fair Prize. Hanika wrote previously mainly short non-fictional texts, later novels, including two books on psychoanalysis.
Biographical & Professional Details
Date of birth
October 18, 1962
Würzburg
Citizenship
Germany
Occupations & fields
writer
Awards & honours
Hans Fallada PrizeEuropean Union Prize for LiteratureRome Prize of the German Academy Villa MassimoLeipzig Book Fair Prize/Fiction
Notable works
The Bottom LineTreffen sich zwei
- Field and occupation
- německá spisovatelka
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