Isabelle Lehn
Isabelle Lehn, born in Bonn in 1979, received her doctorate in rhetoric from the University of Tübingen in 2011 and studied at the German Literature Institute in Leipzig. In 2016, her debut novel Binde zwei Vögel zusammen (Eichborn) was published, from which she read at the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize the same year. In 2017, the novel was awarded the Förderpreis des Schubart-Literaturpreises. In 2019, her autofictional novel Frühlingserwachen (S. Fischer) followed, which was on the Shortlist for the Literaturpreis Text und Sprache in 2020 and was awarded the Rhine Translation Prize in 2023 in the translation by Bradley Schmidt. She received the Dietrich Oppenberg Media Prize in 2021 for her essay Weibliches Schreiben in der deutschsprachigen Gegenwartsliteratur (S. Fischer hundertvierzehn, 2020). In 2024, her novel Die Spielerin was published by S. Fischer, which received a great deal of media attention. Isabelle Lehn lives as a freelance writer in Leipzig.