Monika Maron

Monika Maron (born in Berlin in 1941) is a German author. She grew up in East Germany and has published numerous novels and essay collections. Her awards include the Kleist Prize (1992), the Friedrich Hölderlin Prize of the City of Homburg (2003), the German National Prize (2009), the Lessing Prize of the Free State of Saxony (2011), and the Ida Dehmel Literature Prize (2017).