Nikola Huppertz

Nikola Huppertz (born 1976 in Mönchengladbach, Germany) studied music or violin and psychology. In 2007, the manuscript of her debut novel, *Karla, Sengül und das Fenster zur Welt*, won the literary competition of the Bonn Book Fair Migration. She published more than 30 books for children and young adults, as well as poetry, prose, and stories for literary magazines and radio. In 2021, she wrote the libretto for a children’s opera commissioned by Deutsche Oper am Rhein; it premiered the same year. Her work has been translated into numerous languages and received several awards, including the Evangelical Book Prize in 2022. She was also nominated for the German Youth Literature Prize.