Slata Roschal

Slata Roschal (born 1992 in Saint Petersburg, Russia), also known as Slata Kozakova, is a German writer and literary scholar. In 1997, Roschal moved with her parents to Schwerin in Germany where she was raised bilingual. After graduating from secondary school, she studied Slavic studies, German studies and comparative literature studies at the University of Greifswald. She graduated with a doctor's degree at LMU Munich in 2021. In 2017, Roschal published a poetry and prose anthology on contemporary literature from the Baltic Sea region in collaboration with Matthias Friedrich. She has published poetry, prose and translations from Russian in numerous anthologies and literary magazines. In 2018, she was awarded the Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania Literature Prize. In 2019, she published her debut poetry collection, Wir verzichten auf das gelobte Land (We renounce the promised land) followed by the poetry and prose miniature collection Wir tauschen Ansichten und Ängste wie weiche warme Tiere aus (We exchange views and fears like soft, warm animals) in 2021 which gained much attention. In February 2022, Roschal published her debut novel 153 Formen des Nichtseins (153 forms of not-being). Originally published by the Erlangen based independent press Homunculus Verlag, the novel was received well by critics and turned out to be a success.