Matthias Nawrat was born 1979 in Opole in Poland. He moved with his family in 1989 to Bamberg. From 2000 to 2007, he studied Biology at Heidelberg and Freiburg im Breisgau. Beginning in 2009 he studied at the Swiss Literature Institute in Biel/Bienne. His debut novel, Wir zwei allein was published in 2012. He lives in Berlin.
