Ulla Lenze
Author · 5 books
Ulla Lenze, born in Mönchengladbach in 1973, studied Music and Philosophy in Cologne and now lives in Berlin and Buckow (Märkische Schweiz). Her debut novel Schwester und Bruder (Sister and Brother) has won several awards, including the Jürgen Ponto Prize for the best debut novel in 2003, the Rolf-Dieter-Brinkmann-Förderpreis and the Ernst-Willner-Prize at the Ingeborg Bachmann-Competition. The novel Archanu was published in 2008, followed in 2012 by Der kleine Rest des Todes (What Little Remains of Death) and in 2015 by Die endlose Stadt (The Endless City), in which Lenze finds connections among the metropolises of Berlin, Istanbul and Mumbai. With her novel "The Radio Operator", based on the life story of her great-uncle, she achieved an international breakthrough; the novel has been translated into more than 12 languages. Lenze has been Writer-in-Residence in Damascus, Istanbul, Mumbai and Venice. In 2016 she received the Literature Prize of the Cultural Committee of German Business for her complete oeuvre up to date and in 2020 the Krefelder Literaturpreis. In spring 2023, Ulla Lenze will take up the Max Kade Professorship at Dartmouth College (USA).
