Nava Ebrahimi, born in Tehran in 1978, is one of Austrian literature’s most exciting new voices.
She is the winner of the 2021 Ingeborg Bachmann Prize, and her novel «Sechzehn Wörter» («Sixteen words») won the Austrian Book Prize and the Morgenstern Prize.
After studying journalism and economics in Cologne, she became editor at Financial Times Deutschland and at the Cologne-based Stadtrevue. She has been shortlisted for the Open Mike debut prize, and has attended the Bavarian Academy of Writing.
Alongside her novels, she also writes a column for the Süddeutsche Zeitung.