About Karosh Taha
Karosh Taha was born in the small town of Zaxo in northern Iraq in 1987. She studied to become a teacher, specializing in English literature and history, at the University of Duisburg-Essen and in Kansas, USA. She has received honors such as a study scholarship from the Heinrich Böll Stiftung and the Heinrich Heine fellowship. For her debut novel “Description of a Crab Migration” she received the prize for young artists from the state of North Rhine-Westphalia.
