Iris Wolff Author

Iris Wolff was born in the medieval town of Sibiu, Transylvania, emigrated to Germany as a child and now lives in Freiburg in Breisgau. She studied German literature, religious studies, painting and graphics. She worked for several years in the German Literature Archive in Marbach and also lectured on art and cultural education.

She has written five novels and a collection of short stories. A best-seller in Germany and celebrated for her original storytelling and style, she has won over a dozen literary prizes.

The author describes her writing as 'a rebellion against time and its greatest impertinence, transience'. Her books vividly evoke her own childhood, the village house and garden where she grew up in the Banat, a region of Romania formerly populated by German speakers, multiple nationalities and communities. Emigration during the communist period and after the fall of the Iron Curtain brought 800 years of history to an end.

BLURRED was nominated for the German Book Prize, the Bavarian Book Prize (fiction) and the Wilhelm Raabe Literature Prize; it won two prestigious awards, the Evangelical Book Prize and the LiteraTour North Prize.