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Katja Lange-Müller
(born 13.02.1951 in East Berlin), writer.
Katja Lange-Müller completed an apprenticeship as a typesetter, worked in Berlin as a picture editor and for a long time as an auxiliary nurse in a psychiatric ward. She also studied at the "Johannes R. Becher" Literature Institute in Leipzig. She left the GDR in 1984. In 1986 she published the short story collection Wehleid, wie im Leben and received the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize in the same year. In 1995 she was awarded the Alfred Döblin Prize for Verfrühte Tierliebe. Her novel Böse Schafe was shortlisted for the German Book Prize in 2007. Katja Lange-Müller lives in Berlin and Switzerland.
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