Dorothee Elmiger
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Dorothee Elmiger is a Swiss writer, editor and translator. She is the author of Out of the Sugar Factory, Shift Sleepers and Invitation to the Bold of Heart. Elmiger has been awarded numerous prizes, including the Aspekte Literature Prize for the best debut novel written in German, the 2021 Schillerpreis, and most recently the 2022 Nicolas Born Prize. Out of the Sugar Factory was shortlisted for both the German and the Swiss Book Award. In 2021, she held the Samuel Fisher Visiting Professorship at the Free University in Berlin and in 2023 she was the Max Kade writer in residence at the University of Michigan. She's a member of the German Academy for Language and Literature. She lives in New York.
