Juli Zeh (, Julia Barbara Finck, née Zeh; born 30 June 1974) is a German writer and judge. She is known for novels such as The Method (2009), Unterleuten (2016) and About People (2021).
Early life and education
Juli Zeh is the daughter of the lawyer . She studied law in Passau and Leipzig, passing the Zweites Juristisches
Staatsexamen – comparable equivalent to the U.S.
bar exam – in 2003, and holds a doctorate in international law from Saarland University.
She also has a degree from the German Institute for Literature Leipzig.
Career
Zeh's first published novel was
Eagles and Angels, which received the 2002 Deutscher Bücherpreis for best
debut novel. She travelled through Bosnia-Herzegovina in 2001, which became the basis for the book
Die Stille ist ein Geräusch.
Among her other books are
Das Land der Menschen,
Dark Matter,
Kleines Konversationslexikon für Haushunde,
Gaming Instinct,
Ein Hund läuft durch die Republik,
Decompression and
The Method.
Since January 2019, Zeh is an honorary judge at the Constitutional Court of Brandenburg.
Personal life
Zeh is married and has two children.
Since 2017, she has been a member of the Social Democratic Party of Germany.
Selected bibliography
- Novels
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| First English translation in 2014 by Harvill Secker. Translated by John Cullen |
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Further reading
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