Terézia Mora was born in 1971 in Sopron, Hungary. In 1990 she enrolled in the Hungarian Studies and Theater Studies departments at the Humboldt University in Berlin, then took a course in screenwriting at the Deutsche Film und Fernsehakademie and worked for a short time as a screenwriter. Since 1998 Mora has devoted herself full-time to her writing, winning the “Ingeborg Bachmann Prize” in 1999. She lives in Berlin.

Photo: © Susanne Schleyer / autorenarchiv.de

Awards:

• 1997 Open Mike Literature Prize
• 1997 Würth Literature Prize
• 1999 Ingeborg Bachmann Prize
• 2000 Adalbert von Chamisso Promotion Prize
• 2002 Jane Scatcherd Translation Prize
• 2004 Mara Cassens Prize of the Hamburg Literaturhaus for the best first novel by a German-language writer
• 2005 Literature Promotion Prize of the “Berliner Kunstpreises”
• 2005 LiteraTour Nord Prize
• 2005 Leipzig Book Fair Prize (fiction and poetry)
• 2006 Villa Massimo Scholarship