Martin Wolkner

Martin Wolkner was born in Germany's largest urban area, the Ruhr, in 1980. He has studied English and German Linguistics, Film/TV Studies plus a little bit of Philosophy at Ruhr-Universität Bochum (M.A.) and University of Hull.

He has worked as a translator, journalist, film critic, subtitler as well as festival director of Filmfest homochrom & Litfest homochrom in Cologne.

His German novel "Vollmondbraut" (Full-Moon Bride), written in 2009, was published first in 2015. In 2019, his first German novel "Morgenreport" (Morning Report) from 2002 was followed by "immer (noch) wahr – 80 Gedichte" (Still True), a collection of German poetry and his 1999 novela "Wo Wolken enden" , which is also available in the English version under the title "Where Clouds End".