Karosh Taha, born in 1987 in Zaxo, Iraq, has lived in Germany since 1997. Her essays have appeared in various literary magazines. In the Belly of the Queen is her second novel and won her the Alfred Döblin Prize. Karosh lives in Cologne. Grashina Gabelmann is editor-in-chief and a founding member of Flaneur Magazine, a site-specific, interdisciplinary and award-winning publication focusing on one street per issue. She writes psychogeographic prose and works as a translator.

"There are two sides to every story, but this simple truth is rarely as meaningfully explored in literature as in Karosh Taha's second novel In the Belly of the Queen. Karosh Taha succeeds in making you forget the construction in the narration, so richly and dazzlingly do her sentences shine." Britta Heidemann, Westdeutsche Allgemeine

Karosh Taha, born in 1987 in Zaxo, Iraq, has lived in Germany since 1997. Her essays have appeared in various literary magazines. In the Belly of the Queen is her second novel and won her the Alfred Döblin Prize. Karosh lives in Cologne. Grashina Gabelmann is editor-in-chief and a founding member of Flaneur Magazine, a site-specific, interdisciplinary and award-winning publication focusing on one street per issue. She writes psychogeographic prose and works as a translator.

"There are two sides to every story, but this simple truth is rarely as meaningfully explored in literature as in Karosh Taha's second novel In the Belly of the Queen. Karosh Taha succeeds in making you forget the construction in the narration, so richly and dazzlingly do her sentences shine." Britta Heidemann, Westdeutsche Allgemeine