Lilian Loke, born in 1985, studied English literature, art history and German literature and lives in Munich.
Her debut Gold in the Streets appeared in 2015 and was awarded the Munich Tukan Prize, the Literature Scholarship of the City of Munich, the Scholarship of the Jürgen-Ponto-Stiftung and of the Literary Colloquium Berlin. She has been a member of the PEN-Center Germany since 2016.