Yasmin Shakarami

Yasmin Shakarami, daughter of a Hungarian mother and an Iranian father, was born in Munich in 1991. In 2010, she moved to Tokyo for a stay abroad and subsequently studied philosophy in Munich, specializing in ethics. After completing her master's degree, she founded a school for German language, literature, and philosophy in Vancouver, Canada. Today, she lives in Munich again, where she received the City of Munich's literature scholarship in 2021. Her debut novel, Tokioregen, immediately stormed the Spiegel bestseller list, received the DELIA Literature Prize, and has already been translated into numerous languages. Her second novel, Sturmflirren, is about a queer subculture in Qatar.

Sturmflirren
young adult book, cbj, 2024

Tokioregen
young adult book, cbj, 2023