Inger-Maria Mahlke

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Inger-Maria Mahlke (born 1977 in Hamburg, Germany) is a German author. In 2018 she was the recipient of the German Book Prize.

Mahlke in 2018

Life[edit]

Mahlke grew up in Lübeck, Schleswig-Holstein, northern Germany. She studied Law at the Free University of Berlin, where she worked in the department of Criminology. She lives in Berlin.[1]

Writing career[edit]

In 2009 she won the Open Mike award,[2] an international German-language literary prize established in 1993 for new writers. Her first novel was Silberfischchen (Silverfish) published in 2010,[3] for which she was awarded the inaugural Klaus-Michael Kühne Prize of the Hamburg Harbour Front Literaturfestival, an award for debut novelists established in the same year.[4]

In 2012 she was awarded the Ernst Willner Prize of the Festival of German-Language Literature. Other awards followed including a shortlisting for the 2015 German Book Prize for her novel Wie Ihr wollt.[5][6] In 2018 she was awarded the German Book Prize for her novel, Archipel.[7][8][9]

Mahlke is a member of the PEN Centre Germany.[10]

Works[edit]

  • Mahlke, Inger-Maria (2010). Silberfischchen (1. Aufl ed.). Berlin: Aufbau. ISBN 978-3-351-03309-5. OCLC 660149626.
  • Mahlke, Inger-Maria. Rechnung offen. Berlin. ISBN 978-3-8270-1130-5. OCLC 827925112.
  • Mahlke, Inger-Maria (2015). Wie Ihr wollt. Berlin: Berlin Verlag. ISBN 978-3-8270-1213-5. OCLC 898077026.
  • Jügler, Matthias (2016). Wie wir leben wollen Texte für Solidarität und Freiheit (in German). Berlin: Suhrkamp Verlag. ISBN 978-3-518-46710-7. OCLC 936193732.
  • Mahlke, Inger-Maria (2018). Archipel (in German). Reinbek bei Hamburg: Rowohlt Verlag. ISBN 978-3-498-04224-0. OCLC 1033660660.

Literature[edit]

  • Takis Würger: Überzeugungstäterin. Besuch bei der Schriftstellerin Inger-Maria Mahlke. In: Der Spiegel. No. 39/2018, pp. 126f.

References[edit]

  1. ^ NDR. "Deutscher Buchpreis geht an Inger-Maria Mahlke" (in German). Retrieved 2018-10-23.
  2. ^ "Open Mike Award".
  3. ^ Mahlke, Inger-Maria (2010). Silberfischchen : Roman (1. Aufl ed.). Berlin: Aufbau. ISBN 978-3-351-03309-5. OCLC 660149626.
  4. ^ "Mahlke, news report".
  5. ^ "German Book Prize shortlist 2015".
  6. ^ Mahlke, Inger-Maria (2015). Wie Ihr wollt Roman. Berlin: Berlin Verlag. ISBN 978-3-8270-1213-5. OCLC 898077026.
  7. ^ "German Book Prize nomination 2018".
  8. ^ Mahlke, Inger-Maria. Archipel (1. Auflage ed.). Reinbek. ISBN 978-3-498-04224-0. OCLC 1033660660.
  9. ^ "Roman des Jahres: Inger-Maria Mahlke gewinnt den Deutschen Buchpreis". Spiegel Online. 2018-10-08. Retrieved 2018-10-23.
  10. ^ "PEN Centre Germany, Website".
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