Yael Inokai (born 1989 in

Basel , french: link=no, Bâlois(e), it, Basilese , neighboring_municipalities= Allschwil (BL), Hégenheim (FR-68), Binningen (BL), Birsfelden (BL), Bottmingen (BL), Huningue (FR-68), Münchenstein (BL), Muttenz (BL), Reinach (BL), Riehen (BS ...

as Yael Pieren) is a Swiss writer.

Biography

Inokai is the daughter of a German and a Hungarian. From 2011 she studied philosophy in Basel and Vienna. From 2014, she studied screenwriting at the

Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin The Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin (DFFB, German Film and Television Academy Berlin) is a film school in Berlin, Germany. In the German film school ranking of FOCUS (Issue 22/2006), the dffb - together with the Academy of Media Arts Co ...

. She also works as a tour guide and has published articles in literary magazines and on ''

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''. In 2012, her first novel, ''Stork Bite'' (german: Storchenbiss), was published by

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. In 2013, Inokai received a residency scholarship for the . In 2015, she became the

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on a nomination from the local magazine '. Her second novel ' (german: Mahlstrom), published in 2017, was awarded one of the highly endowed

Swiss Literature Awards The Swiss Literature Awards (which were known as the Federal Literature Awards) is a Swiss literary award presented by the Federal Office of Culture (FOC). History The organization of the Awards is given to FOC in the context of the Law of Encour ...

in 2018. In October 2018, she further received the Würth Literature Prize (2nd prize) for the short story "The Foreigner" (german: Der Ausländer), awarded by the

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company in cooperation with the

University of Tübingen The University of Tübingen, officially the Eberhard Karl University of Tübingen (german: Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen; la, Universitas Eberhardina Carolina), is a public research university located in the city of Tübingen, Baden-Wü ...

. Inokai's novel ''Mahlstrom'' was also adapted as a radio play by SRF in 2019 and broadcast in January 2020. It was also broadcast by

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in December 2020. In 2020, she wrote the short story "The Decent One" (german: Der Anständige) for the . The novel ' (german: Ein simpler Eingriff) was published in Berlin in 2022. In it, Inokai tells from the perspective of a nurse about lesbian love and a society that makes people sick and thinks it can heal them by means of surgical interventions. With special reference to this novel, Inokai was awarded one of the two

Anna Seghers Prize Anna Seghers-Preis is a literary prize of Germany. The prize goes back to the German writer Anna Seghers (1900–1983), who stated in her testament that the revenues from her work should be used to encourage promising young writers. The award is ...

s in 2022. Inokai is the director of textual studies in Berlin.

Awards

* Swiss Literature Award for ''Maelstrom'' (2018) *

for ''A Simple Intervention'' (2022) * Longlist for the

German Book Prize The German Book Prize (''Deutscher Buchpreis'') is awarded annually, in October, by the German Publishers and Booksellers Association (''Börsenverein des Deutschen Buchhandels'') to the best new German language novel of the year. The books, publ ...

with ''A Simple Intervention'' (2022) *

Clemens-Brentano-Preis Clemens-Brentano-Preis of the city of Heidelberg is a literary prize of Germany. It was established in 1993, and named after the German poet Clemens Brentano (1778–1842). The prize money is €10,000. Recipients Source: * 1993 Günter Coufal ...

for ''A Simple Intervention'' (2023)

References

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