Kenah Cusanit (b. 1979 in Blankenburg) is an orientalist and ethnologist and was awarded numerous prizes for her essays and poetry. Her texts appear in various magazines such as Edit and Bella triste. Her poetry collection aus Papier was published by hochroth Verlag Berlin in 2014, followed by Chronographe Chorologien I in 2017. She won the Uwe-Johnson-Prize for her debut novel Babel. The book was published in 2019 by Hanser Verlag, received euphorical press in Germany and was shortlisted for the Leipzig Book Fair Prize 2019. She lives in Berlin.
