Tanja Dückers, born 1968 in Berlin, is a freelance writer and journalist. She has published eighteen books (novels, stories, children’s books and collections of poems and essays). She also writes regularly for print media and the radio on social and political issues. She is a member of Weiter Schreiben, a writers’ group that facilitates entry into the German literature industry for refugee writers. www.tanjadueckers.de