Judith Hermann was born in Berlin in 1970. Her debut Summer House, Later (1998) was extraordinarily well received. She followed up in 2003 with the short stories Nothing But Ghosts , some of which were dramatised for cinema in 2007. Her internationally celebrated collection Alice came out in 2009. Judith Hermann published her first novel, Where Love Begins , in 2014, followed by Letti Park in 2016, which was awarded the Danish Blixen Prize for short stories. Her 2021 novel Daheim was nominated for the Leipzig Book Fair Prize. Judith Hermann has won numerous awards for her work, including the Kleist Prize and the Friedrich Hölderlin Prize. Her most recent book, We'd Have Told Each Other Everything , was awarded the Wilhelm Raabe Prize in 2023.

She lives and writes in Berlin.