About the authorJACKIE THOMAE was born in 1972 and is a German journalist and writer. She is the author of several works of nonfiction, fiction, literary translations, and audio and screen plays. Her debut novel, Moments of Clarity, was published in 2015. Her second novel, Brothers, was on the shortlist for the German Book Prize in 2019 and was awarded the Düsseldorf Literature Prize in 2020. In 2021 she was awarded the Lessing Prize of the Free State of Saxony. Her literary translations include Zusammenkunft from the English original Assembly by Natasha Brown and in 2023, she wrote an audio play based on the novel Girl Woman Other by Bernardine Evaristo.Born in Halle, Jackie grew up in Leipzig and Berlin where she currently resides.