Sibylle Berg (born 2 June 1962) is a German-Swiss contemporary author and playwright. They write novels, essays, short fiction, plays, radio plays, and columns. Their 15 books have been translated into 30 languages. They have won numerous awards, including the Thüringer Literaturpreis, the Bertolt-Brecht-Literaturpreis, and the Johann-Peter-Hebel-Preis. They have become an iconic figure in German alternative sub-cultures, gaining a large fan base among the LGBT community and the European artistic communities. They live in Switzerland and Israel. Their 2019 work GRM. Brainfuck, a science fiction novel set in a dystopian near future won the Swiss Book Prize, and reached fourth place on the Spiegel Bestseller list, with the sequel, RCE, entering the list at place 14. Life Berg was born on 2 June 1962 in Weimar, East Germany. They spent their childhood and youth in Constanta, Romania. Their father was a music professor, and their mother was a librarian. Before beginning their higher education in West Germany, they were trained as a combat diver. They studied oceanography at the University of Hamburg, and worked various jobs. In 1996, they moved to Zurich, Switzerland. They married in 2004, and has held Swiss citizenship since 2012. Berg is known to support the Straight Edge movement. Berg describes themself as Non-Binary and uses they/them pronouns. Novelist Sibylle Berg's first novel, "A Few People Search For Happiness And Laugh Themselves To Death", was published in 1997 by Reclam Publishing, after previously being rejected by 50 other publishers. , Berg has written 16 novels. To promote their newly released books, Sibylle Berg goes on tour, with the 2012 release of Vielen Dank für das Leben (Thank You For This Life) including contributions from film and theater actors Katia Riemann, Mathias Brandt, and musician Mary Ocher, and the release of GRM: brainfuck featured the grime rappers T.Roadz, and Prince Rapid and Slix of Ruff Sqwad. Playwright Sibylle Berg has written 29 plays. In 2000, in Bochum, their second play Helges Leben (Helge's Life) was staged and commissioned for the Mulheim Theater Festival. In 2008, the play Von denen die überleben (Of Those Who Survive) was staged in the central theater of Zurich, in collaboration with well-known artists such as Jon Pylypchuk, Gabríela Friðriksdóttir, and more. In 2013, Sibylle Berg began working with Maxim Gorki Theater in Berlin, and their first play, Es sagt mir nichts, das sogenannte Draussen (The so-called outside means nothing to me), was