Ulrike Draesner

Born in München | lives in Berlin and Leipzig

UD, born 1962 in Munich, considered to be one of the leading voices in contemporary literature, writes poems, novels and essays. After spending years in England, she now lives in Berlin and Leipzig, where she has held a professorship at the Deutsches Literaturinstitut since 2018. She has received numerous awards for her literary work, most recently the LiteraTour Nord Prize (2020), the 2020 German Prize for Nature Writing, the Bayerischer Buchpreis (2020), and the Großer Preis des Deutschen Literaturfonds 2021. Her new novel zu lieben will be published in autumn 2024. She is a member of the Berlin Akademie der Künste and the Deutsche Akademie für Sprache und Dichtung.

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