Anna Kaleri

Anna Kaleri (born 1974 in Wippra) is a German writer and screenwriter.

Biography
Anna Kaleri was born 1974 in the Harz Mountains in the former GDR. She studied from 1996 to 2002 at the German Institute for Literature in Leipzig. After her diploma from this school for writers, she studied Philosophy. Currently, she lives in Leipzig and works freelance since 2002. She writes fiction, screenplays and does journalistic works. Her prose début "This man exists" was published in 2003. Three years later, in 2006, her autobiographical novel "Highlife" which broached the time of Die Wende was published. After years of research, Kaleri wrote the novel Der Himmel ist ein Fluss (2012), a fictional approach to the life of her unknown grandmother hwo died at the end of World War II in Masuria.

Awards

 * 1997	Weddinger Literaturpreis
 * 2003	Wiepersdorf – Stipendium der Sächsischen Kulturstiftung
 * 2004	Grenzgängerstipendium der Robert-Bosch-Stiftung
 * 2004	Hörspielstipendium des Deutschen Literaturfonds
 * 2007	Arbeitsstipendium der Sächsischen Kulturstiftung