Nava Ebrahimi

Nava Ebrahimi was born in Tehran in 1978 and studied journalism and economics in Cologne. She subsequently worked as an editor at the Financial Times Deutschland and Kölner Stadtrevue before turning to literary fiction. Her debut, *Sixteen Words* (*Sechzehn Wörter*), received the Austrian Book Prize for Best Debut and the Morgenstern Prize. In 2021, she was awarded the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize. Her other novels include *My Neighbor’s Paradise* (*Das Paradies meines Nachbarn*) and *And Feathers Everywhere* (*Und Federn überall*), which was nominated for the 2025 German Book Prize and received the Péter Horváth Prize.