Iris Hanika

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. 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.

Awards

2006 Hans Fallada Prize
2010 European Union Prize for Literature for Das Eigentliche
2011 for Das Eigentliche
2017/2018 Villa Massimo
2020 Hermann-Hesse-Literaturpreis for Echos Kammern
2021 Leipzig Book Fair Prize for ''Echos Kammern''
Works

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