Svenja Leiber

Svenja Leiber, born in Hamburg in 1975, grew up in northern Germany. As a child, she lived in Saudi Arabia for some time. She read literary studies, history and art history at university. In 2005, she published her debut Büchsenlicht, a collection of short stories. It was followed by the novel Schipino in 2010. Her novels Das letzte Land and Staub were published by Suhrkamp Verlag in 2014 and 2018, respectively. Leiber has been awarded several prizes including the Werner Bergengruen Prize in 2007 and the EHF Grant of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation in 2010. She lives in Berlin with her husband and two children.