Meike Ziervogel
German writer
Meike Ziervogel (born 1967, Germany) is a German novelist, publisher, journalist and humanitarian based in Beirut, Lebanon. She set up the British independent publishing house Peirene Press in 2008, which received multiple award nominations and accolades from notable European news agencies. Ziervogel continues to write whilst working as the CEO of award-winning Alsama Project, a Middle East-based education NGO she co-founded in 2020.
Life
Ziervogel was born in 1967 in Kiel in Germany and grew up in Schleswig-Holstein and Hessen. She came to London in 1986 to study Arabic language and literature. She received Bachelor and Master of Arts degrees from The School of Oriental and African Studies. She speaks German, English, Arabic and French. Meike is married and has two children, a daughter and a son. Ziervogel's family, notably her parents and grandparents, were displaced from their home in modern-day Poland, due to the political climate at the end World War II.
Work
After graduation, Ziervogel worked as a journalist for Reuters in London and Agence France-Presse in Paris. In 2008 she founded Peirene Press, an award-winning independent UK publishing house specialising in contemporary European fiction in English translation.
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