About Judith Schalansky
Born in Greifswald in 1980, Judith Schalansky studied art history and communication design. Her books, including the internationally successful bestseller “Atlas of Remote Islands” (2009) and the novel “The Giraffe’s Neck” (2011), have been translated into more than 20 languages and won many prizes. She is the publisher of the “Naturkunden” [“Natural Sciences”] book series and lives in Berlin, where she works as a designer and freelance author.