Jagoda Marinić

Jagoda Marinić (born September 20, 1977 in Waiblingen) is a prize-winning author, novelist, playwright, essayist, and journalist from Germany.

[1] She has what is often called a "migrant background," a term she rejects;[2] her parents emigrated from Dalmatia in Croatia, SFR Yugoslavia to Germany in the 1970s.

She herself was born in Germany, became a German citizen, and speaks and writes in prominent venues about identity, migration, citizenship, and integration.

[3][4][5][6] It is set in Toronto, Berlin, and Croatia, and explores the self-awareness and homecomings of uprooted, displaced characters as they gain a sense of identity in a fractured world.

In June 2007 Marinić was one of 18 participants in the 31st Festival of German-Language Literature (Ingeborg-Bachmann-Prize) competition in Klagenfurt where she read her story Netzhaut [Retina].

Marinić is a member of the Interkulturellen Rat in Deutschland e. V. She is on the board and serves as speaker for the Stiftung Internationale Wochen gegen Rassismus.