Iris Hanika

German writer · Germany · On the map · Writers · Born 1962 · age 64

Iris Hanika is a German writer. 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 and Merkur.

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A life in dates

2021Leipzig Book Fair Prize/FictionAward2010European Union Prize for LiteratureAward2006Hans Fallada PrizeAward1962Born18 October 1962

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Hanika at Literaturhaus Frankfurt [de] 2008

Awards

Leipzig Book Fair Prize/Fiction2021

European Union Prize for Literature2010

Hans Fallada Prize2006

Rome Prize of the German Academy Villa Massimo

About this person

Hanika won the LiteraTour Nord prize and the EU Prize for Literature for her novel Das Eigentliche. 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.

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Germany