Silke Scheuermann was born in 1973 in Karlsruhe, Germany, and lives in Frankfurt. She studied Drama and Literature in Frankfurt, Leipzig and Paris. In 2001 she was awarded the Leonce-und Lena Prize for her previous collection, Der Tag an dem die Möwen zweistimmig sangen (The Day on which the Sea Gulls sang in Two Parts), which Joachim Sartorius referred to as "Probably the most successful debut of a new lyric voice in recent years." (Süddeutsche Zeitung). She recently published her first novel, Die Stunde zwischen Hund und Wolf (The Hour Between Dog and Wolf). (2007)

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