Yael Inokai (born 1989 in

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as Yael Pieren) is a Swiss writer.

Biography

Yael Inokai is the daughter of a Hungarian father and a German mother. From 2011 she studied philosophy in Basel and Vienna. From 2014, she studied screenwriting at the

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. She also works as a tour guide and has published articles in literary magazines and on ''

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''. In 2012, her first novel, ''Stork Bite'' (), was published by

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. In 2013, Inokai received a residency scholarship for the . In 2015, she became the

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on a nomination from the local magazine '. Her second novel ' (), published in 2017, was awarded one of the highly endowed Swiss Literature Awards in 2018. In October 2018, she further received the Würth Literature Prize (2nd prize) for the short story "The Foreigner" (), awarded by the

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company in cooperation with the

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. Inokai's novel ''Mahlstrom'' was also adapted as a radio play by SRF in 2019 and broadcast in January 2020. It was also broadcast by

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in December 2020. In 2020, she wrote the short story "The Decent One" () for the . The novel ' () was published in Berlin in 2022. In it, Inokai tells from the perspective of a nurse about lesbian love and a society that makes people sick and thinks it can heal them by means of surgical interventions. With special reference to this novel, Inokai was awarded one of the two

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s in 2022. Inokai is the director of textual studies in Berlin.

Awards

* Swiss Literature Award for ''Maelstrom'' (2018) *

for ''A Simple Intervention'' (2022) * Longlist for the

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with ''A Simple Intervention'' (2022) * Clemens-Brentano-Preis for ''A Simple Intervention'' (2023)

References

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