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

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Life

Mahlke grew up in

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, Schleswig-Holstein, northern Germany. She studied Law at the

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, where she worked in the department of Criminology. She lives in Berlin.

Writing career

In 2009 she won the

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award, an international German-language literary prize established in 1993 for new writers. Her first novel was ''Silberfischchen'' (Silverfish) published in 2010, 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. In 2012 she was awarded the Ernst Willner Prize of the

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. Other awards followed including a shortlisting for the 2015 German Book Prize for her novel ''Wie Ihr wollt.'' In 2018 she was awarded the German Book Prize for her novel, ''Archipel.'' Mahlke is a member of the

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Works

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Literature

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

References

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