Ariane Koch, born in Basel in 1988, studied fine arts and interdisciplinarity. In addition to novels, she writes theatre and performance texts and radio plays. Her texts have won numerous awards and have been performed in places like Basel, Berlin, Cairo, Istanbul and Moscow. Overstaying, her debut novel, won the Swiss Literature Award and the Aspekte Prize for Literature, and is being translated into eight languages.
'Comparing this magnificent first novel to the great Kafka does it no disservice - on the contrary' - Neue Zurcher Zeitung 'Full of dreamlike symbols of loneliness and alienation. Overstaying has the makings of a classic' - Die Zeit 'An intense, enigmatic - in the best sense of the word - debut of philosophical force' - Suddeutsche Zeitung 'A brave debut, remarkable in its literary aesthetics' - Deutschlandfunk