Natascha Wodin

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Natascha Wodin is a German writer with Ukrainian roots. She was born on December 8, 1945, in Fürth, Germany. Her parents were forced laborers during the Nazi era, and she grew up in a camp for displaced people. After her mother died by suicide, she lived in a Catholic girls’ home. She worked as a telephone operator and stenographer before becoming an interpreter and translator of Russian in the early 1970s. She has lived in Moscow and has translated Russian works into German.

Wodin writes novels, short stories and poetry. She has won many prizes, including the Adelbert-von-Chamisso Prize (1998), the Brothers Grimm Prize of the City of Hanau (1989 and 2009), the Alfred Döblin Prize (2015), and the Leipzig Book Fair Prize (2017) for Sie kam aus Mariupol. Her memoir about her father is Irgendwo in diesem Dunkel. She was married to the writer Wolfgang Hilbig, a topic she writes about in Nachtgeschwister. Since 1984 she has lived in Berlin and Mecklenburg.