Judith Hermann was born in Berlin in 1970.
Her debut story collection «Summerhouse, Later» (1998) was extremely well received. It was then followed in 2003 by the story collection «Nothing But Ghosts», and several of the stories contained in the latter were adapted for film in 2007.
In 2009, she published «Alice», five short stories that received international acclaim. Her first novel, «Where Love Beginns», came out in 2014. It was followed in 2016 by the short story collection «Lettipark», which was awarded the Danish Blixen Prize for Short Stories.
Hermann has received numerous awards for her work, including the Kleist Prize and the Friedrich Hölderlin Prize. Her novel «Home» was published in spring 2021. It was nominated for the Leipzig Book Fair Prize and received the Bremen Literature Prize in 2022.
Most recently, S. Fischer published «We’d Have Told Each Other Everything«, based on the Frankfurt poetry lectures given, and received the Wilhelm-Raabe Literature Award in 2022.