Sasha Marianna Salzmann, born in Volgograd, is a dramatist, novelist and essayist. Salzmann’s plays have been produced in Germany and abroad, receiving various awards, including the 2020 Kunstpreis Berlin. Salzmann’s debut novel, Außer sich (Beside Myself), was published in 2017; their second, Im Menschen muss alles herrlich sein (Glorious People), in 2021. Both were longlisted for the German Book Prize, the latter received the 2022 Literaturhäuser prize and the Heinrich Heine prize. Sasha Salzmann lives in Berlin.
