Melanie Raabe (born 1 August 1981 in

Jena Jena () is a German city and the second largest city in Thuringia. Together with the nearby cities of Erfurt and Weimar, it forms the central metropolitan area of Thuringia with approximately 500,000 inhabitants, while the city itself has a popu ...

) is a German novelist and journalist.

Biography

Melanie Raabe was born in

East Germany East Germany, officially the German Democratic Republic (GDR; german: Deutsche Demokratische Republik, , DDR, ), was a country that existed from its creation on 7 October 1949 until its dissolution on 3 October 1990. In these years the state ...

, and grew up in

Wiehl Wiehl () is a municipality in the Oberbergischer Kreis, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is located approximately 41 km east of Cologne. The neighbouring municipalities Reichshof, Waldbröl, Nümbrecht, Much, Engelskirchen and Gummersb ...

. Her father was a visiting student from

Benin Benin ( , ; french: Bénin , ff, Benen), officially the Republic of Benin (french: République du Bénin), and formerly Dahomey, is a country in West Africa. It is bordered by Togo to the west, Nigeria to the east, Burkina Faso to the north ...

. She studied media science and literature at the

University of Bochum The Ruhr University Bochum (, ) is a public research university located in the southern hills of the central Ruhr area, Bochum, Germany. It was founded in 1962 as the first new public university in Germany after World War II. Instruction began in ...

. She then began a career in journalism. In 2011, her short story ''The Tooth Fairy (dt. Die Zahnfee)'' won the top award of the ''German Short Crime Awards'' at the Tatort Eifel festival for crime literature. She self-published ''The Ugly Ones'' ''( dt. Die Hässlichen'') as an e-book. Her novel ''The Trap'' ''(dt. Die Falle)'' was released at the Leipzig Book Fair in 2015. The movie rights for ''The Trap'' were sold at the Berlinale to TriStar Pictures. The book won the ''Stuttgart Crime Fiction Prize'' the following year. In 2016, her novel ''The Stranger'' ''(dt. Die Wahrheit)'' was published as an fiction book, radio play and audio book. In 2018, Raabe released her novel ''The Shadow (dt. Der Schatten)''. In 2019, her novel ''The Forests (dt. Die Wälder)'' was published under btb Verlag. She was nominated for the Shortlist Leo-Perutz Awards in the category ''Best new publication (crime novel)'' for The Shadow ''(dt. Der Schatten''), but lost against Alex Beer (Daniela Larcher).

Works

Fiction

Radio plays

Audio books

Awards and nominations

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Raabe, Melanie 1981 births Living people Writers from Jena People from Bezirk Gera German crime fiction writers 21st-century German novelists 21st-century German journalists Ruhr University Bochum alumni