Karosh Taha was born in Zaxo in 1987. She has lived in the Ruhr region since 1997.
Her debut novel Description of a crab walk was published by DuMont in 2018, followed by In the Queen's Belly in 2020. The radio play version of Description of a crab walk will be broadcast on WDR3 and COSMO in 2021.
Karosh Taha has received the following grants and awards::
- Förderpreis des Landes NRW
- Nominated for the Ulla Hahn Prize
- Nominated for the Kranichsteiner Literature Prize
- Scholarship of the LCB
- Heinrich Heine Scholarship
- Work scholarship of the Kunststiftung NRW
- Hohenems Literature Prize
- Scholarship German Literature Fund
- Rolf Dieter Brinkmann Scholarship 2019