Sasha Marianna Salzmann

(Russia, 1985) is a playwright, essayist, dramaturge and novelist with Russian, Jewish and Ukrainian roots. They live and work in Germany, where they are connected with the Maxim Gorki Theatre in Berlin. Their brilliant debut novel Außer sich (Beside Myself, 2017) was translated into 16 languages and won multiple awards. Im Menschen muss alles herrlich sein (Everything Must Be Lovely about a Person, 2021) was recently awarded the Preis der Literaturhäuser; it is a sobering portrait of a period of upheaval, from perestroika to present-day Germany, and at the same time a family novel about loss in the lives of powerful female figures.