Anna Melikova (Ukraine) script writer, writer, film curator and film critic. Was born in Crimea, studied German philology in Kyiv, worked as a film curator and film critic in Moscow, since 2017 lives in Berlin. She wrote the screenplay for “Grand Jeté” (director Isabelle Stever, premiered Berlinale 2022). Since 2022 she is a member of the Berlinale Panorama selection committee. With the German-Ukrainian film project “My Beloved Man’s Female Body” she received as script writer the Kompagnon Fellowship Award, Berlinale Talents 2023. Her prose texts have been published in literature magazines and anthologies in various languages. In 2022 she was a fellow of the Berlin Literary Colloquium. In 2024 she received a scholarship for literature of the Berlin Senate. Her debut novel Ich ertrinke in einem fliehenden See will be published in German language by Matthes & Seitz 2024.
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