Jenny Erpenbeck

Jenny Erpenbeck is a German novelist and opera director born in East Berlin in 1967. She won the International Booker Prize in 2024 for *Kairos*, a novel about a love affair between a young East German woman and an older married man in the final years of the GDR. Her earlier novel *Go, Went, Gone*, about an African refugee's experience in Berlin, brought her wide international acclaim.