Katja Petrowskaja
From 7 June to 10 July 2019

Born in Kiev, based in Berlin, Katja Petrowskaja studied Russian Philology at the University of Tartu, Estonia. She holds a PhD in Literary Studies from the Russian State University for the Humanities, Moscow. She published at newspapers as NZZ and SZ. Since 2011 she is a columnist with Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung. Maybe Esther(2014) is her first book. A winner of the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize and several other literature awards, it has been translated into twenty languages.