Katerina Poladjan was born in Moscow, grew up in Rome and Vienna, and now lives in Germany. Her work includes plays and essays; her debut novel In einer Nacht, woanders (‘One night, somewhere else’) was followed by Vielleicht Marseille (‘Perhaps Marseilles’), and together with Henning Fritsch she wrote the literary travelogue Hinter Siberien (‘Beyond Siberia’). She was nominated for the Alfred Döblin Prize and also for the European Union Prize for Literature, and participated in the 2015 Klagenfurt Festival of German-language Literature. She was awarded scholarships by the German Literature Fund, the Berlin Senate and the Tarabya Cultural Academy in Istanbul for her novel Hier sind Löwen (‘There are lions here’). In 2021 she was awarded the City of Dortmund’s Nelly Sachs Prize. Zukunftsmusik was placed on the shortlist for the 2022 Leipzig Book Fair Prize.
(Updated: 2022)
Awards
2021 Nelly Sachs Prize
2019 Alfred Döblin Scholarship
2016-17 German Literature Fund Scholarship
2016 Residency, Tarabya Cultural Academy, Istanbul
2016 ‘Preussische Seehandlung’ Foundation Scholarship
2015 Literature Prize ‘Der kleine Hai’ (Wist Bookshop, Potsdam)
2015 Senate of the City of Berlin Scholarship
2014 Alfred Döblin Scholarship
2014 Robert Bosch Foundation ‘Grenzgänger’ Scholarship
2003 New Society for Literature Scholarship
More Publications
Hier sind Löwen
S. Fischer Verlag, Frankfurt a. M. 2019.
Hinter Sibirien. Eine Reise nach Russisch-Fernost
Rowohlt Verlag, Berlin 2016.
Vielleicht Marseille
Rowohlt Verlag, Berlin 2015.
In einer Nacht, woanders
Rowohlt Verlag, Berlin 2011.