Born 1962 · Germany, Switzerland
Schweizer Buchpreis 2019 · Winner
GRM. Brainfuck
Sibylle Berg · 57 when first published
Novel · 448 pages · Speculative, Politics, Coming of age
AI-generated summary:Rochdale, England, in a near future: Brexit is done, the monarchy abolished, the state relies on total surveillance. Four children who know nothing but a failed state flee into grime music and start their own revolution.
Schweizer Buchpreis 2012 · Shortlist
Title translated by AI:“Many Thanks for Life”
Sibylle Berg · 50 when first published
Novel · 400 pages · Satire, Coming of age
AI-generated summary:Toto, an orphan of no clear sex, too fat and too tall, is born in the cold summer of 1966 in East Germany. Abandoned by both parents, Toto drifts through a broken world as if goodness, innocence and love still existed.