Juli Zeh

Juli Zeh, born 1974 in Bonn, studied law in Passau and Leipzig, studied European and international law, doctorate. Long stays in New York and Krakow. Her debut novel Adler und Engel (2001) was already a global success, and her novels have now been translated into 35 languages. Juli Zeh has received numerous awards for her work, including the Rauris Literature Prize (2002), the Hölderlin Prize (2003), the Carl Amery Literature Prize (2009), the Thomas Mann Prize (2013), the Hildegard Prize von Bingen Prize (2015), the Bruno Kreisky Prize (2017) and the Heinrich Böll Prize of the City of Cologne (2019). In 2018 she was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit. In the same year she was elected judge at the constitutional court of the state of Brandenburg.