Katrin Burseg

Katrin Burseg, born in Hamburg in 1971, studied art history and literature and initially worked as a journalist before becoming a novelist. She has published several historical novels, including *Unter dem Schnee*, *Adas Fest*, *Tage mit Milena* and *Liebe ist ein Haus mit vielen Zimmern*. The latter won the DELIA Literature Prize in 2016. Her novel *Unter dem Schnee* was inspired by her memories of the snow disaster of the winter of 1978–79, when she and her family were snowed in for several days. Her fiction also addresses history, the oceans and the effects of climate change on coastal regions.