Katja Oskamp (born 20 February 1970 in Leipzig) is a German writer.

Oskamp was born 20 February 1970 in Leipzig, Germany and grew up in Berlin.

[1] Three years later, she debuted a short story collection called Halbschwimmer about childhood and youth in East Germany,[2] which won the Rauris Literature Prize.

[3] In 2019, Oskamp published Marzahn, Mon Amour, a novel about the elderly citizens of Berlin, based on the author's own observations as a practising chiropodist in the Marzahn district, after deciding to change her career.

[2] The translation created by Jo Heinrich won the 2023 International Dublin Literary Award.