Nainy Sahani is a memoirist, performer and storyteller based in Berlin. Her writing blends personal history with cultural critique, tracing gender, memory, and power through an intimate feminist lens. Guided by the conviction that language shapes the lives we are allowed to imagine, she works across poetry and prose. She has written for television, developing shows and documentaries, and is a founding member of the Berlin collective Sluts in Sarees. Her work appears in multiple anthologies, most recently with Edition Assemblage.
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Publishing 3 September 2026 What brings people to today’s Berlin, what makes them stay? For some, the city is a place of refuge, from war and persecution, bigotry or boredom. For others, it’s the history or the nightlife or the broad green spaces that attract them – or haunt them. And a few are just …
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Berlin Babel
BookPre-order 13.99 GBPB-format paperback with French flaps
176 pages3 September 2026