Melanie Raabe (born 1 August 1981 in Jena) is a German novelist and journalist.
Biography Melanie Raabe was born in Jena, East Germany, and grew up in Wiehl. Her father was a visiting student from Benin.
She studied media science and literature at the University of Bochum. She then began a career in journalism.
In 2011, her short story The Tooth Fairy (dt. Die Zahnfee) won the top award of the German Short Crime Awards at the Tatort Eifel festival for crime literature. She self-published The Ugly Ones (dt. Die Hässlichen) as an e-book.
Her novel The Trap (dt. Die Falle) was released at the Leipzig Book Fair in 2015. The movie rights for The Trap were sold at the Berlinale to TriStar Pictures. The book won the Stuttgart Crime Fiction Prize the following year.
In 2016, her novel The Stranger (dt. Die Wahrheit) was published as a fiction book, radio play and audio book.
In 2018, Raabe released her novel The Shadow (dt. Der Schatten).
In 2019, her novel The Forests (dt. Die Wälder) was published under btb Verlag. She was nominated for the Shortlist Leo-Perutz Awards in the category Best new publication (crime novel) for The Shadow (dt. Der Schatten), but lost against Alex Beer (Daniela Larcher).
Works
Fiction YearOriginal titleEnglish translationISBNEditorWriterRef.2011Die Zahnfee"The Tooth Fairy"——Melanie Vega (Pseudonym)2014Die Hässlichen"The Ugly Ones"978-3844-28019-7epubli GmbH2015Die Falle"The Trap"978-3442-75491-5btb VerlagMelanie Raabe2016Die Wahrheit"The Stranger"978-3442-71690-62018Der Schatten"The Shadow"978-3442-71903-72019Die Wälder"The Forests"978-3442-75753-4
Radio plays YearOriginal titleEnglish translationWriterEditorRef.2017Die Wahrheit"The Stranger"Melanie RaabeDer Hörverlag2019Der Abgrund"The Abysm"
Audio books YearOriginal titleEnglish versionWriterSpeakerRef.2015Die Falle"The Trap"Melanie RaabeDevid Striesow, Birgit Minichmayr2016Die Wahrheit"The Stranger"Nina Kunzendorf, Andreas Pietschmann, Devid Striesow2018Der Schatten"The Shadow"Katja Bürkle, Melanie Raabe2019Die Wälder"The Forests"Melanie Raabe, Anna Schudt
Awards and nominations YearAwardCategoryWorkResultRef.2011Tatort Eifel (German Short Crime Awards)German Short CrimeDie Zahnfeerowspan=1 2015Kulturförderpreis des Oberbergischen KreisesFictionHerselfSecond place2016Stuttgart Crime Fiction Awards (Witwer-Debut crime price)Best German-speaking debut crime novelDie Fallerowspan=1 2019Shortlist Leo-Perutz-AwardsBest new publication (Genre crime novel)Der Schattenrowspan=1
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