Iris Hanika
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 (freelancer of the Berliner Seiten) and Merkur (2000–2008: column Chronicles). Hanika won the LiteraTour Nord prize and the EU Prize for Literature for her novel Das Eigentliche (The Bottom Line).
Iris Hanika
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- Germany
- Occupation
- writer
- Fields
- prose
- Education
- Freie Universität Berlin
- Known for
- The Bottom Line · Treffen sich zwei
- Honours
- Hans Fallada Prize · European Union Prize for Literature · Rome Prize of the German Academy Villa Massimo · Leipzig Book Fair Prize/Fiction
- Languages
- German
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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 (freelancer of the Berliner Seiten) and Merkur (2000–2008: column Chronicles). Hanika won the LiteraTour Nord prize and the EU Prize for Literature for her novel Das Eigentliche (The Bottom Line).
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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.
Iris Hanika studied at Freie Universität Berlin. The recorded working language is German. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are prose. Places of work recorded in the authority are Berlin. Works named in the authority record are The Bottom Line and Treffen sich zwei. Distinctions recorded are Hans Fallada Prize, European Union Prize for Literature, Rome Prize of the German Academy Villa Massimo and Leipzig Book Fair Prize/Fiction.
• 2006 Hans Fallada Prize • 2010 European Union Prize for Literature for Das Eigentliche • 2011 Preis der LiteraTour Nord for Das Eigentliche • 2017/2018 Villa Massimo • 2020 Hermann-Hesse-Literaturpreis for Echos Kammern • 2021 Leipzig Book Fair Prize for Echos Kammern
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