[1] She was born in Würzburg, grew up in Bad Königshofen and has lived in Berlin since 1979, where she studied Universal and Comparative Literature at the FU Berlin.
[2][3][4] She was a regular contributor to German periodicals like Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (freelancer of the Berliner Seiten) and Merkur (2000–2008: column Chronicles).
Hanika won the LiteraTour Nord prize and the EU Prize for Literature for her novel Das Eigentliche (The Bottom Line).
[5] Hanika wrote previously mainly short non-fictional texts, later novels, including two books on psychoanalysis.
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