Sherko Fatah is a Kurdish-German writer born in East Berlin in 1964. In 2015 she received the German Grand Prize for Art and the German Adelbert von Chamisso Prize. He is praised for bringing a new language and a new geography to German literature. Sherko Fatah has lived in West Berlin since 1975 and published her first novel "In the Land of Borders" in 2001. "In the Land of Borders" was awarded the Aspekte Literary Prize for the best first novel in Germany in 2001 and the German Critics' Honorary Prize for the best first novel in 2002.

In his novels, he mostly depicts the region his father came from - South Kurdistan and Iraq. He knows the geography of the region, its people, their problems, hopes, moods and hopes at least as deeply as the mentality of the country he lives in. He skillfully expresses this biculturalism in his novels written in German.

In his critically acclaimed debut novel, Sherko Fatah tells the story of a man who moves back and forth across borders. The man, who remains nameless, smuggles in the mined area. He has a deal with the mines: he will not betray them and they will not betray him. But everything changes when his son goes missing. In order to find his missing son, he has to talk to intelligence agents and is quickly betrayed. Thus, his secret "pact" that he had woven with land mines also fails. The luck he needs in his work, which he undertakes at the risk of death every day, leaves him, never to return...