Leky, Mariana

Mariana Leky was born in Cologne in 1973 and now lives in Berlin. After an apprenticeship in the retail book trade, she studied German Language and Literature and Cultural Studies at T bingen. She also studied Creative Writing and Cultural Journalism at the University of Hildesheim. Her short stories have won several awards, including the the Allegra Prize in 2000 and the Literature Prize of Lower Saxony. Her debut a volume of short stories titled Liebesperlen was published in 2001, and In 2004 she published her first novel Erste Hilfe.