Yael Inokai

Yael Inokai
Yael Inokai in 2017
Yael Inokai in 2017
BornYael Pieren
1989 (age 34–35)
Basel, Switzerland
OccupationWriter
Alma materDeutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin
Notable awards

Yael Inokai (born 1989 in Basel as Yael Pieren) is a Swiss writer.

Biography

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 [de].[5] In 2015, she became the Hildesheim Stadtschreiber [de] on a nomination from the local magazine Bella triste [de]. Her second novel Maelstrom [de] (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 [de].[10]

The novel A Simple Intervention [de] (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.

Awards

References

  1. ^ a b "Leben und überleben in Berlin: die Basler Autorin Yael Inokai". barfi.ch. May 31, 2017. Archived from the original on 2019-07-21. Retrieved July 10, 2023.
  2. ^ "Yael Inokai". AN|SICH|TEN – SRF Schweizer Literatur. 2023. Retrieved July 10, 2023.
  3. ^ "Yael Inokai". Zeit Online. 2023. Retrieved July 10, 2023.
  4. ^ Pieren 2012.
  5. ^ "Yael Inokai". Literarisches Colloquium Berlin. July 8, 2017. Retrieved July 10, 2023.
  6. ^ Faulhaber, Daniel (April 25, 2018). "Das Literaturinstitut Biel lässt diese Basler Autorin kalt". TagesWoche. Retrieved July 10, 2023.
  7. ^ "Würth-Literaturpreis". Würth Group. October 2018. Retrieved July 10, 2023.
  8. ^ Janson, Susanne (January 11, 2020). ""Mahlstrom" von Yael Inokai". SRF. Retrieved July 10, 2023.
  9. ^ "Hörspiel über ein totgeschwiegenes VerbrechenMahlstrom: Nach dem Roman von Yael Inokai". Hörspiel und Feature. December 2, 2020. Retrieved July 10, 2023.
  10. ^ "ARD Radiofestival. Lesung. Yael Inokai: "Der Anständige"". SWR2. August 28, 2020. Archived from the original on 2021-07-14. Retrieved July 10, 2023.
  11. ^ a b "Der diesjährige Anna Seghers-Preis geht an Yael Inokai und Alia Trabucco Zerán". BuchMarkt. May 5, 2022. Retrieved July 10, 2023.

Bibliography

  • Pieren, Yael (2012). Storchenbiss (Roman). Zürich: Rotpunktverlag. ISBN 978-3-85869-494-2.
  • Inokai, Yael (2017). Mahlstrom (Roman). Zürich: Rotpunktverlag. ISBN 978-3-85869-769-1.
  • Inokai, Yael (2019). Rampa, Nicole (ed.). Passing through (Schweizer Kulturschaffende in New York). St. Gallen, Berlin: Vexer Verlag. ISBN 978-3-907112-05-2.
  • Inokai, Yael (2022). Ein simpler Eingriff (Roman). Berlin: Hanser. ISBN 978-3-446-27231-6.
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