Katharina Hacker

Katharina Hacker (born 11 January 1967) is a German author best known for her award-winning novel Die Habenichtse (The Have-Nots). Hacker studied philosophy, history and Jewish studies at the University of Freiburg and the University of Jerusalem. Since 1996 she has been living as a freelance writer in Berlin.^[1] In 2006 she was the second writer to be awarded the German Book Prize for Die Habenichtse.^[2]

Works

• Tel Aviv. Eine Stadterzählung (narrative, 1997)
• Morpheus oder Der Schnabelschuh (narratives, 1998, published in English as Morpheus, 2003)
• Der Bademeister (novel, 2000, published in English as The Lifeguard, 2002)
• Eine Art Liebe (novel, 2003)
• Die Habenichtse (novel, 2006, published in English as The Have-Nots, 2007)
• Überlandleitung (prose poems, 2007)

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