Dagmar Nick was born in Breslau in 1926 and was raised in Berlin. She studied graphology and psychology in Munich and went on to become one of the most important German female poets of the post-1945 period. Since 1947 she has published radio dramas, short stories, travel books, and three monologues. There are also eleven volumes of poetry, the most recent being Eingefangene Schatten, mein jüdisches Familienbuch (C. H. Beck Verlag München, 2015). She is a member of PEN and the Academy of Fine Arts and has been the recipient of several prizes in literature such as the Liliencron Prize of the City of Hamburg (1948), the Eichendorf Prize (1966), the Roswitha Medal (1977), the Andreas Gryphius Prize (1993), and the Horst Bienek Prize (2009).
