Inger-Maria Mahlke (born 1977 in Hamburg, Germany) is a German author. In 2018 she was the recipient of the German Book Prize.
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Inger-Maria Mahlke (born 1977 in Hamburg, Germany) is a German author. In 2018 she was the recipient of the German Book Prize.
Mahlke grew up in Lübeck, Schleswig-Holstein, northern Germany. She studied Law at the Free University of Berlin, where she worked in the department of Criminology. She currently lives in Berlin. [1]
In 2009 she won the Open Mike award, [2] an international German-language literary prize established in 1993 for new writers. Her first novel was Silberfischchen (Silverfish) published in 2010, [3] for which she was awarded the inaugural Klaus-Michael Kühne Prize of the Hamburg Harbour Front Literaturfestival, an award for debut novelists established in the same year. [4]
In 2012 she was awarded the Ernst Willner Prize of the Festival of German-Language Literature. Other awards followed including a shortlisting for the 2015 German Book Prize for her novel Wie Ihr wollt. [5] [6] In 2018 she was awarded the German Book Prize for her novel, Archipel. [7] [8] [9]
Mahlke is a member of the PEN Centre Germany. [10]
· Takis Würger: Überzeugungstäterin. Besuch bei der Schriftstellerin Inger-Maria Mahlke. In: Der Spiegel. No. 39/2018, pp. 126f.
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