Anna Katharina Hahn

Anna Katharina Hahn is a German author.

Life and works Anna Katharina Hahn was born in Ruit (Ostfildern), a small town short distance to the south-east of Stuttgart.

She attended secondary school in nearby Stuttgart. Hahn won her first literary prize while still at school, coming first in a short story competition organised by the city authorities in 1988.

In 2004 she took part in the Ingeborg Bachmann literary competition with her book "Kavaliersdelikt", which was listed for inclusion by Ursula März (as one of the jurors): on this occasion Hahn's book was not among the prize winners, however.

Her first full-length novel Kürzere Tage (Shorter Days) was published in 2009, and ranked ninth that year on a "SWR-Bestenliste". (The SWR-Bestenliste was inaugurated in 1975.) It is a list of books compiled monthly, based on the recommendations of (in 2020) 30 literary critics. The novel appeared on the shortlist for the Leipzig Book Fair Prize and the longlist for the Wilhelm Raabe Literature Prize.

Her novel "Das Kleid meiner Mutter" (My mother's dress), which appeared in 2016, deals with the impact of economic crisis in Spain. It received a more mixed response from at least some of the more mainstream German critics.

In 2018, Hahn was named "Mainzer Stadtschreiberin" by the television channels ZDF and 3sat, and the city of Mainz.

Anna Katharina Hahn is a member of PEN Centre Germany. She lives with her husband, the writer, archivist and literary scholar Jan Bürger, and their sons in Stuttgart.

Output (selection) Sommerloch. (2000) a book of short stories. Kavaliersdelikt. (2004) a book of short stories. Kürzere Tage. (2009), novel. Am Schwarzen Berg (2012) novel. Das Kleid meiner Mutter (2016) novel. Aus und davon (2020) novel.

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