Mithu Sanyal

Mithu Sanyal was born in Düsseldorf in 1971 and is a cultural scientist, author, journalist and critic. Her non-fiction book ‘Vulva. Das unsichtbare Geschlecht’ was published in 2009 and ‘Vergewaltigung. Aspekte eines Verbrechens’. In 2021, Hanser published her first novel ‘Identitti’, which was shortlisted for the German Book Prize and awarded the Ruhr Literature Prize and the Ernst Bloch Prize 2021.