Katja Lange-Müller was born in 1951 in East Berlin. He trained as a typesetter, later worked as a nurse in various psychiatric institutions, spent a year in Mongolia and in 1984 left the German Democratic Republic. He has received numerous awards, including, in 1986 Ingeborg Bachmann Prize and in 1995 the Alfred Dobling Award for his narration Verfrühte Liebe. Adriana Hidalgo editor published in 2007 his novel "The Last".