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Inger-Maria Mahlke (born 1977 in Hamburg, Germany) is a German author. In 2018 she was the recipient of the German Book Prize.

Life

Mahlke grew up in Lübeck, Schleswig-Holstein, northern Germany. She studied Law at the Free University of Berlin, where she worked in the department of Criminology. She lives in Berlin.

Writing career

In 2009 she won the Open Mike award, an international German-language literary prize established in 1993 for new writers. Her first novel was Silberfischchen (Silverfish) published in 2010, for which she was awarded the inaugural Klaus-Michael Kühne Prize of the Hamburg Harbour Front Literaturfestival, an award for debut novelists established in the same year.

In 2012 she was awarded the Ernst Willner Prize of the Festival of German-Language Literature. Other awards followed including a shortlisting for the 2015 German Book Prize for her novel Wie Ihr wollt. In 2018 she was awarded the German Book Prize for her novel, Archipel.

Mahlke is a member of the PEN Centre Germany.

Works

• Mahlke, Inger-Maria (2010). Silberfischchen (1. Aufl ed.). Berlin: Aufbau. ISBN 978-3-351-03309-5. OCLC 660149626.
• Mahlke, Inger-Maria. Rechnung offen. Berlin. ISBN 978-3-8270-1130-5. OCLC 827925112.
• Mahlke, Inger-Maria (2015). Wie Ihr wollt. Berlin: Berlin Verlag. ISBN 978-3-8270-1213-5. OCLC 898077026.
• Jügler, Matthias (2016). Wie wir leben wollen Texte für Solidarität und Freiheit (in German). Berlin: Suhrkamp Verlag. ISBN 978-3-518-46710-7. OCLC 936193732.
• Mahlke, Inger-Maria (2018). Archipel (in German). Reinbek bei Hamburg: Rowohlt Verlag. ISBN 978-3-498-04224-0. OCLC 1033660660.

Literature

• Takis Würger: Überzeugungstäterin. Besuch bei der Schriftstellerin Inger-Maria Mahlke. In: Der Spiegel. No. 39/2018, pp. 126f.

References

1. NDR. "Deutscher Buchpreis geht an Inger-Maria Mahlke" (in German). Retrieved 2018-10-23.
2. "Open Mike Award".
3. Mahlke, Inger-Maria (2010). Silberfischchen : Roman (1. Aufl ed.). Berlin: Aufbau. ISBN 978-3-351-03309-5. OCLC 660149626.
4. "Mahlke, news report".
5. "German Book Prize shortlist 2015".
6. Mahlke, Inger-Maria (2015). Wie Ihr wollt Roman. Berlin: Berlin Verlag. ISBN 978-3-8270-1213-5. OCLC 898077026.
7. "German Book Prize nomination 2018".
8. Mahlke, Inger-Maria. Archipel (1. Auflage ed.). Reinbek. ISBN 978-3-498-04224-0. OCLC 1033660660.
9. "Roman des Jahres: Inger-Maria Mahlke gewinnt den Deutschen Buchpreis". Spiegel Online. 2018-10-08. Retrieved 2018-10-23.
10. "PEN Centre Germany, Website".

• 1977 births
• 21st-century German novelists
• German women novelists
• Living people
• German Book Prize winners
• Writers from Schleswig-Holstein
• 21st-century German women writers