Olga Grjasnowa

Olga Grjasnowa (born 14 November 1984, in Baku, Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic, USSR) is a German writer currently living in Berlin, Germany.

Beginning in 2005, Grjasnowa first pursued a degree in art history and Slavic studies at the University of Göttingen.

She then changed courses to enroll in the "Creative Writing" program offered by the German Institute for Literature in Leipzig, obtaining her bachelor's degree in 2010.

Olga Grjasnowa is married to Syrian actor Ayham Majid Agha, with whom she has one daughter.

She received the WIENER WORTSTAETTEN's dramatist prize for her first play Mitfühlende Deutsche (Sympathetic Germans) in the same year.