Birgit Birnbacher, born in 1985, lives as a sociologist and author in Salzburg. Her debut novel “Wir ohne Wal” was published in 2016 and was awarded the literature prize of the Jürgen Ponto Foundation, the Rauriser Förderungspreis and the Theodor Körner Förderpreis. In 2019 she was awarded the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize.