Katja Petrowskaja

Katja Petrowskaja, born in Kiev in 1970, has lived in Berlin since 1999. She studied literature and Slavic studies in Tartu and earned her doctorate in Moscow. From 2000 to 2010, she wrote for various Russian- and German-language media outlets (Neue Zürcher Zeitung, taz, Deutsche Welle, Radio Liberty). Since 2011, she has been a columnist for the Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagzeitung. Her literary debut, Vielleicht Esther (2014), has been translated into more than 30 languages and has won numerous awards. In 2022, she published a collection of essays entitled Das Foto schaute mich an, followed in 2025 by another collection of essays entitled Als wäre es vorbei. Texte aus dem Krieg. She lives in Berlin.

Photo: Sasha Adrusyk