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Katja Petrowskaja
(born 03.02.1970 in Kiev), writer and journalist.
Katja Petrowskaja studied literature and Slavic studies in Tartu, Estonia. She completed her doctorate in Moscow. In 1999 she moved to Berlin and works as a journalist for various Russian and German-language media. Her autobiographically based book debut Vielleicht Esther. Geschichten won the Ingeborg Bachmann Competition in 2013 and received further awards such as the Premio Strega Europeo in 2015. Katja Petrowskaja lives in Berlin.
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