Education
She has studied history and German literature.
She has studied history and German literature.
Menasse had a successful career as a journalist, writing for the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung in Frankfurt and as a correspondent from Prague and Berlin. She left the paper to write her first novel, Vienna, and now lives and works in Berlin as a freelance author The English translation of her novel Vienna was shortlisted for the 2007 Independent Foreign Fiction Prize in the United Kingdom. Eva Menasse is married to the German author Michael Kumpfmüller.