About Nele Pollatschek
Nele Pollatschek, born in Berlin in 1988, studied English literature and philosophy in Heidelberg, Cambridge and Oxford and received her doctorate in 2018. She received the Friedrich Hölderlin Prize (2017) and the Grimmelshausen Prize (2019) for her debut novel "Das Unglück anderer Leute" (2016). This was followed by the non-fiction book "Dear Oxbridge. Love letter to England" (2020). Nele Pollatschek writes for the feature section of the Süddeutsche Zeitung and was awarded the German Reporter Prize in 2022.