Rabea Edel

Rabea Edel, born in 1982, is a writer and photographer. Her debut novel “Das Wasser, in dem wir schlafen” was published in 2006, her second novel “Ein dunkler Moment” in 2011 (Luchterhand Literaturverlag). In 2021, her radio play “Ihre Geister sehen” (Deutschlandfunk, with Sandra Hüller) was honoured with the Audience Award of the ARD Radio Play Festival. Her photo art book “A Second Beating Heart” (SHIFT BOOKS), which was shortlisted by the Stiftung Buchkunst, was published in 2021. Her new novel will be published by C.H.Beck in spring 2025.

Awards (selection): Scholarship holder at the Alfred-Döblin-Haus 2018, Artist in Residence at the Goethe-Institut Ljubljana 2016, working scholarship for literature from the state of Lower Saxony 2016, city writer in Beijing at the Goethe-Institut 2015, working scholarship from the German Literature Fund 2014, scholarship from the Berlin Senate 2013, scholarship holder at the Künstlerhaus Edenkoben 2012, scholarship holder at the German Academy Rome Villa Massimo/Casa Baldi 2009, at the suggestion of Herta Müller Literature Prize Lotto Brandenburg 2007, Nicolas-Born-Förderpreis 2007, prizewinner of the 12. open mike 2004, Treffen junger Autor*innen 1996 and 1998.