Birgit Vanderbeke

Birgit Vanderbeke (born 8 August 1956 in Dahme, Brandenburg) is a German writer. Vanderbeke grew up in Frankfurt am Main after her family moved to West Germany in 1961. She studied Law, Germanic and Romance languages. The English translation of her debut novel, Das Muschelessen, by Jamie Bulloch was published in 2013 by Peirene Press as The Mussel Feast. Since 1993 she has been living in southern France.[1]

Birgit Vanderbeke, 2011 in Marburg

Awards and honours
gollark: (osmarks is me, I got an IRC client running)
gollark: Perfect, it works.
gollark: Permanently locked bootloaders: because not letting the user control their device is the *best* way to secure it.
gollark: Well, it has the pogo pins, so it could support one.
gollark: It doesn't, sadly. BlackBerry are the only company making physical keyboard-equipped smartphones as far as I know, and they don't even allow rooting as far as I know.

References
  1. Iris Alanyali (18 Jan 2003). "Der deutsche Akzent ist niedlich (Interview with Vanderbeke)". Die Welt (in German). Retrieved 28 Nov 2010.
  2. Ingrid Hildebrand (10 April 2007). "Birgit Vanderbeke wird Grimm-Professorin an der Uni Kassel" (in German). University of Kassel. Retrieved 26 Nov 2010.
  3. Alison Flood (8 April 2014). "Knausgaard heads Independent foreign fiction prize shortlist". The Guardian. Retrieved April 10, 2014.
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