Biography
Terézia Mora was born in 1971 in Sopron, Hungary, and grew up bilingual in a family belonging to the German-speaking minority. In 1990 she moved to Berlin, studied Hungarian studies and theatre studies at Humboldt University and trained as a screenwriter at the German Film and Television Academy Berlin. Since 1998 she has worked as a freelance writer, writing in German, and as a translator from Hungarian, including Péter Esterházy's “Harmonia Caelestis”. She won the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize in 1999 for the story “Der Fall Ophelia”; her debut collection “Seltsame Materie” appeared the same year. Her novels include “Alle Tage” (2004), the trilogy about the IT specialist Darius Kopp – “Der einzige Mann auf dem Kontinent” (2009), “Das Ungeheuer” (2013, German Book Prize) and “Auf dem Seil” (2019) – and “Muna oder Die Hälfte des Lebens” (2023), which was shortlisted for the German Book Prize. In 2018 she received the Georg Büchner Prize.
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