Annette Hug studied History in Zurich and Women and Development Studies at the University of the Philippines, Diliman. After working as a lecturer and trade union officer, she has been a freelance author since January 2015. Her novels Lady Berta and In Zelenys Zimmer were published by rotpunktverlag in 2008 and 2010, Wilhelm Tell in Manila (2016) and Tiefenlager (2021) by Das Wunderhorn in Heidelberg. Annette Hug was awarded a Swiss Literature Prize in 2017, and her column Dreaming the World appears every two weeks in the weekly newspaper WOZ. Since 2017, she has published longer reportages from the Philippines, Shanghai and Seoul. As a literary translator from Filipino to German, she has translated books by Luna Sicat Cleto, Allan N. Derain, Lualhati Bautista, and Isabelo de los Reyes.
