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Place of Birth: Frankfurt, Hesse, Germany
About Katharina Hacker
- Katharina Hacker (born 11 January 1967) is a German author best known for her award-winning novel Die Habenichtse (The Have-Nots).
- Hacker studied philosophy, history and Jewish studies at the University of Freiburg and the University of Jerusalem.
- Her studies in Israel have been seen as an attempt to redo the strong anti Semitic feelings of her Silesian grandmother.
- She did not finish her studies with an academic degree.
- Since 1996 she has been living as a freelance writer in Berlin. In 2006 she was the second writer to be awarded the German Book Prize for Die Habenichtse.
- In this and other works, Hacker examines the consequences of globalization and neoliberalism on the working life, social relations, and family interactions of her German protagonists.
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