Jenny Erpenbeck (German pronunciation: [ˈdʒɛni ˈɛʁpm̩bɛk]; born 12 March 1967) is a German writer and opera director. She won the 2015 Independent Foreign Fiction Prize for The End of Days and the 2024 International Booker Prize for Kairos. . Life. Born in East Berlin, Erpenbeck is the daughter of physicist, philosopher and writer John Erpenbeck and Arabic translator Doris Kilias. Her paternal grandparents are both authors: Fritz Erpenbeck and Hedda Zinner. In Berlin she attended an Advanced High School, from which she graduated in 1985.
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Jenny Erpenbeck (German pronunciation: [ˈdʒɛni ˈɛʁpm̩bɛk]; born 12 March 1967) is a German writer and opera director. She won the 2015 Independent Foreign Fiction Prize for The End of Days and the 2024 International Booker Prize for Kairos. . Life. Born in East Berlin, Erpenbeck is the daughter of physicist, philosopher and writer John Erpenbeck and Arabic translator Doris Kilias. Her paternal grandparents are both authors: Fritz Erpenbeck and Hedda Zinner. In Berlin she attended an Advanced High School, from which she graduated in 1985.
