Elena Fischer Author

Elena Fischer studied comparative literature and film in Mainz, where she lives with her family. In 2019 and 2020, she participated in the Darmstadt Text Workshop, led by Kurt Drawert. In 2021 she was a finalist at the 29th Open Mike with an extract from her debut novel Paradise Garden and won the Mainz provincial government’s prize for young authors. Elena Fischer has been nominated for the German Book Prize and for the Harbour Front Literary Festival’s Debut Prize 2023.

Alexandra Roesch studied languages and business and worked in banking before becoming a literary translator. In 2018, she was long-listed for the Goethe Institute’s Helen & Kurt Wolff Prize. Previously translated authors include Hans Fallada, Seraina Kobler and Merle Kröger.