Nikola Huppertz, born in Mönchengladbach in 1976, is an author of children's and young adult literature with a publication list of over 30 works. She has won numerous prizes, including the Protestant Book Prize in 2022 and the German Literature Fund's Werkstipendium in 2024, and also writes poetry and short prose, publishing her first volume of poetry in 2025. After graduating from high school, she studied violin at the Folkwang University in Essen/Duisburg and psychology at the Humboldt University in Berlin. In 2013/14 she was a participant in the Bavarian Academy of Writing at the Literaturhaus München.

The author was awarded the residency fellowship at the Künstlerhaus Bamberg by Bavarian State Minister Markus Blume at the suggestion of the Villa Concordia literary fellowship board members Tanja Graf, Director of the Literaturhaus München, and Dr. Wolf Iro, Goethe Institut e.V.. She will work in Bamberg from mid-April 2025 to mid-March 2026.

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