Ulrike Almut Sandig

Ulrike Almut Sandig, born in 1979 in Großenhain, grew up in a pastor’s household in Nauwalde, Saxony. She is a writer of poetry, short prose and novels; her work also includes radio plays, audiobooks and musical projects. Her books include the story collections Flamingos (2010) and Buch gegen das Verschwinden (2015), as well as the novel Monster wie wir (2020). Her poetry has received numerous awards and has been adapted for film, set to music and translated. Among other honors, Sandig received the Text & Sprache Literature Prize (2017), the Wilhelm Lehmann Prize (2018), the Roswitha Prize (2020), the Erich Loest Prize (2021) and the Robert Gernhardt Prize (2023).