Draft:Khuê Phạm

Khuê Phạm (born 1982 in West-Berlin) is a Vietnamese-German journalist and author.

Biography and career
Khuê Phạm was born in a Vietnamese family in Berlin. She studied Media and Communications at Goldsmiths College and Sociology at the London School of Economics. Before training at the Henri-Nannen-School of journalism in Hamburg, Phạm worked as a producer at NPR ’s Berlin bureau. In 2010, she became an editor at the weekly Die Zeit, writing about politics and culture. Specializing in long-form journalism, she has co-written an investigation into the Essex Lorry deaths. She was the first journalist to profile Kevin Spacey before his sexual-assault trial in 2023. She has also interviewed Chimamanda Adichie, Ocean Vuong and Anna Wintour. In 2012, she co-wrote “Wir neuen Deutschen“, a non-fiction book about second-generation immigrants in Germany. Her debut novel “Wo auch immer ihr seid” was published in 2020 and was chosen for the literature program of Berlinale "Books at Berlinale" in 2022. One year later, it was adapted to the stage as “Kim”. The English translation of the novel by Daryl Lindsey and Charles Hawley as “Brothers and Ghosts” is being released in 2024. She is a founding member of PEN Berlin and was invited by the Haus der Kulturen der Welt in 2023 and 2024 to be part of the jury for the International Literature Prize for foreign literature translated into German.

Memberships and Jury
2022: Founding member of PEN Berlin 2023: Member of the jury of the International Literature Prize 2023 at Haus der Kulturen der Welt 2024: Member of the jury of the International Literature Prize 2024 at Haus der Kulturen der Welt