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Mithu Sanyal is an award-winning novelist, academic, critic and broadcaster, who writes about sex, gender, postcolonialism, power structures, and racism. Sanyal studied German and English literature at the Heinrich-Heine University in Düsseldorf. Her first book, a cultural history of the vulva, appeared with Verlag Klaus Wagenbach under the title Vulva: Die Enthüllung des unsichtbaren Geschlechts. Her second book, Vergewaltigung (Rape: From Lucretia to #MeToo), was published by Edition Nautilus. She has written numerous articles and radio plays for WDR, Deutschlandfunk, BR, DIE ZEIT, Süddeutsche Zeitung, Frankfurter Rundschau, taz, and The Guardian. Her first novel, Identitti, published in 2021 with Carl Hanser, was shortlisted for the German Book Prize. The translation is forthcoming with Astra House (US) and V&Q Books (UK).
Mithu Sanyal is an award-winning novelist, academic, critic and broadcaster, who writes about sex, gender, postcolonialism, power structures, and racism. Sanyal studied German and English literature at the Heinrich-Heine University in Düsseldorf. Her first book, a cultural history of the vulva, appeared with Verlag Klaus Wagenbach under the title Vulva: Die Enthüllung des unsichtbaren Geschlechts. Her second book, Vergewaltigung (Rape: From Lucretia to #MeToo), was published by Edition Nautilus. She has written numerous articles and radio plays for WDR, Deutschlandfunk, BR, DIE ZEIT, Süddeutsche Zeitung, Frankfurter Rundschau, taz, and The Guardian. Her first novel, Identitti, published in 2021 with Carl Hanser, was shortlisted for the German Book Prize. The translation is forthcoming with Astra House (US) and V&Q Books (UK).
