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Yael Inokai (born 1989 in Basel as Yael Pieren) is a Swiss writer.
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.jpg) Yael Inokai in 2017 | |
| Born | Yael Pieren 1989 (age 34–35) Basel, Switzerland |
| Occupation | Writer |
| Alma mater | Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin |
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Inokai is the daughter of a German and a Hungarian. From 2011 she studied philosophy in Basel and Vienna. From 2014, she studied screenwriting at the Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin.[1] She also works as a tour guide[1][2] and has published articles in literary magazines and on Zeit Online.[3] In 2012, her first novel, Stork Bite (German: Storchenbiss), was published by Rotpunktverlag.[4] In 2013, Inokai received a residency scholarship for the Literary Colloquium Berlin.[5] In 2015, she became the Hildesheim Stadtschreiber on a nomination from the local magazine Bella triste. Her second novel Maelstrom (German: Mahlstrom), published in 2017, was awarded one of the highly endowed Swiss Literature Awards in 2018.[6] In October 2018, she further received the Würth Literature Prize (2nd prize) for the short story "The Foreigner" (German: Der Ausländer), awarded by the Würth company in cooperation with the University of Tübingen.[7] Inokai's novel Mahlstrom was also adapted as a radio play by SRF in 2019 and broadcast in January 2020.[8] It was also broadcast by Deutschlandfunk Kultur in December 2020.[9]
In 2020, she wrote the short story "The Decent One" (German: Der Anständige) for the ARD Radio Festival.[10]
The novel A Simple Intervention (German: Ein simpler Eingriff) was published in Berlin in 2022. In it, Inokai tells from the perspective of a nurse about lesbian love and a society that makes people sick and thinks it can heal them by means of surgical interventions.[11] With special reference to this novel, Inokai was awarded one of the two Anna Seghers Prizes in 2022.[11]
Inokai is the director of textual studies in Berlin.
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