Yulia Marfutova, born in Moscow in 1988, studied German and history in Berlin and received her doctorate in Münster. Her first novel, "Der Himmel vor hundert Jahren", was on the longlist for the 2021 German Book Prize and was awarded the Buddenbrookhaus Debut Prize and the Friedrich-Hölderlin-Förderpreis. Yulia Marfutova lives in Boston.