Michelle Steinbeck
Switzerland
Michelle Steinbeck was born in Lenzburg in 1990 and grew up in Zurich. She studied creative writing in Biel. She writes short stories, poetry and plays, columns and reportage. Her literary and journalistic texts have been translated into several languages. Steinbeck is the editor-in-chief of Fabrikzeitung, a columnist for WOZ, and a co-founder of the RAUF writers’ collective in Zurich. After extended stays in Rome, Paris and Hamburg, she now lives in Basel.
Her debut novel Mein Vater war ein Mann an Land und im Wasser ein Walfisch (My Father Was a Man on Land and a Whale in the Water) appeared in 2016 and was nominated for the German and the Swiss Book Prizes. Her poetry collection Engesperrte Vögel singen mehr (Caged Birds Sing More) followed in 2018. In her most recent novel Favorita, Michelle Steinbeck sends her protagonist after the traces of her own mother on an Italian trip. The book is about a road trip taken by a young woman who is grappling with questions of identity, belonging, sexual desire, and patriarchal violence.
My Father Was a Man on Land and a Whale in the Water. Novel. Translated by Jen Calleja. Darf Publishers, 2018
Favorita. Roman. Park x Ullstein 2024
Eingesperrte Vögel singen mehr – gedichtet und geträumt. Lyrik. Voland & Quist 2018
Mein Vater war ein Mann an Land und im Wasser ein Walfisch. Lenos 2016
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