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RASHA KHAYAT

Rasha Khayat was born in Dortmund, Germany, in 1978 and grew up in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. Her family returned to Germany when she was eleven. She studied Comparative Literatures, German Studies, and Philosophy in Bonn. She has been working as a freelance author, translator and lecturer since 2005. Her debut novel ‘Weil wir längst woanders sind’ was published in 2016. She has received numerous awards for her work, including the Robert Bosch Stiftung's Grenzgänger scholarship, residencies in Marseille, New York and Leeuwarden and the German Literature Fund's Werkstipendium for ‘Ich komme nicht zurück’. Since 2022, she has also hosted the feminist literary podcast ‘Fempire - the podcast about women who write’, which has over 10,000 subscribers.