Yael Inokai and Migmar Dolma
Photo: Ladina Bischof
Yael Inokai was born in 1989 in Basel, where she also grew up. She studied philosophy in Basel and Vienna, then screenwriting and dramaturgy at the German Film and Television Academy in Berlin. Her second novel, ‘Mahlstrom’, received a Swiss Literature Prize in 2018, while her third novel, ‘Ein simpler Eingriff’ won the Anna Seghers Prize in 2022 and was longlisted for the German Book Prize. Yael Inokai is co-editor of the magazine ‘PS: Politisch Schreiben’. She is one of the directors of Texttransit, a multilingual writing workshop organised by the Studierendenwerk Berlin, and heads the prose workshop at the Literary Colloqium Berlin.
Photo: Yannis Blättler
Migmar Dolma, born in Wädenswil in 1991, tells stories about life, work and poverty. She studied International Relations in Geneva. She worked for a Tibetan organisation in Berlin and published a book in 2018 with texts by the then-imprisoned Tibetan writer Shokjang. She is currently working on her literary debut and writes about pain, about dignity in the face of degradation, about giving up and about survival. She is a WOZ columnist and lives in Zurich.
Project
Migmar Dolma writes the story of a woman, a mother, about violence, about not giving up and about the power of love. Be it between a mother and her daughters or between two unlikely friends who form an alliance. In the mentoring program with Yael Inokai, she explores autofictional and literary writing.
