Melanie Raabe

Melanie Raabe (born 1 August 1981 in Jena) is a German novelist and journalist.

Biography Melanie Raabe was born in Jena, East Germany, and grew up in Wiehl. Her father was a visiting student from Benin.

She studied media science and literature at the University of Bochum. She then began a career in journalism.

Her novel The Trap (dt. Die Falle) was released at the Leipzig Book Fair in 2015. The book won the Stuttgart Crime Fiction Prize the following year.

In 2016, her novel The Stranger (dt. Die Wahrheit) was published as a fiction book, radio play and audio book.

In 2018, Raabe released her novel The Shadow (dt. Der Schatten).

In 2019, her novel The Forests (dt. Die Wälder) was published under btb Verlag. She was nominated for the Shortlist Leo-Perutz Awards in the category Best new publication (crime novel) for The Shadow (dt. Der Schatten), but lost against Alex Beer (Daniela Larcher).

Works

Fiction

Radio plays

Audio books