Uta-Maria Heim (born 14 October 1963) is a German writer.

Life

Heim was born in Schramberg in Germany on 14 October 1963. She went to the University at Freiberg studying literature and sociology before taking her master's degree in

Stuttgart Stuttgart (; Swabian: ; ) is the capital and largest city of the German state of Baden-Württemberg. It is located on the Neckar river in a fertile valley known as the ''Stuttgarter Kessel'' (Stuttgart Cauldron) and lies an hour from the ...

. She then worked as a critic for the newspaper Stuttgarter Zeitung. By 2006 she was a freelance writer creating radio plays, poems, plays and crime novels based in southern Germany.Uta-Maria Heim
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Awards

* 1992 German Crime Fiction Prize (National 3) for the ''Rats Principle'' * 1994 German Crime Fiction Prize (National 2) for the ''City of Cockroaches'' * 1994 Berlin Art Prize (Literature Award) * 1998 Fellowship of the Villa Massimo * 2000 Friedrich Glauser Prize for ''Little Angel end''

References

1963 births Living people People from Schramberg German women dramatists and playwrights 21st-century German dramatists and playwrights German women poets Writers from Baden-Württemberg German women novelists 21st-century German women writers Stuttgarter Zeitung people {{Germany-writer-stub