Katja Oskamp

Katja Oskamp (born 20 February 1970 in Leipzig) is a German writer. She won the 2023 International Dublin Literary Award.

Personal life and education
Oskamp was born 20 February 1970 in Leipzig, Germany and grew up in Berlin. She studied theatre at the Theaterhochschule Leipzig (1989–1991) and literature at the German Institute for Literature (1999–2002).

Oskamp lives in Berlin.

Career
Oskamp began her career working as a playwright at the Volkstheater Rostock.

In 2000, she won her first literary prize for a short story called Rolf und Mucki und so weiter. Three years later, she debuted a short story collection called Halbschwimmer about childhood and youth in East Germany, which won the Rauris Literature Prize. In 2007, she published her first novel, Die Staubfängerin, which won her the Anna Seghers Prize.

In 2019, Oskamp published Marzahn, Mon Amour, a novel about the elderly citizens of Berlin, based on the author's own observations as a practising chiropodist in the Marzahn district, after deciding to change her career. It was her first work to be translated into English. The translation created by Jo Heinrich won the 2023 International Dublin Literary Award.