Annette Pehnt

Who is Annette Pehnt?

Annette Pehnt is a German writer and literary critic. She lives in Freiburg in Baden-Württemberg.

After graduating from school in 1986 Pehnt performed voluntary social work in Belfast. After a year living in Scotland, she studied English, Celtic studies and German language and literature at the universities in Köln, Galway, Berkeley and Freiburg. After her masters degree and the first national examination in 1994, graduation followed in 1997 at the University of Freiburg with a work on Irish literature.

Since 1992 Annette Pehnt, married and mother of three children, has lived as a literature critic and self-employed author in Freiburg and teaches at the university there. For her literary work, she was awarded the Förderpreis in 2001, the artist's prize of Northrhine-Westphalia and the Mara-Cassens-prize.