Judith Hermann was born in Berlin in 1970. Her debut story collection Sommerhaus, später (1998) was extremely well received. It was then followed in 2003 by the story collection Nichts als Gespenster, and several of the stories contained in the latter were adapted for film in 2007. In 2009, she published Alice , five short stories that received international acclaim. Her first novel, Aller Liebe Anfang, came out in 2014. It was followed in 2016 by the short story collection Lettipark , which was awarded the Danish Blixen Prize for Short Stories. Hermann has received numerous awards for her work, including the Kleist Prize and the Friedrich Hölderlin Prize. Her novel Daheim was published in spring 2021. It was nominated for the Leipziger Book Fair Prize and received the Bremen Literature Prize in 2022. The author lives and writes in Berlin.
