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Silke Schlichtmann

Silke Schlichtmann was born in Stade in 1967. She has a PhD in literature and worked as an independent scholar and editor before deciding she’d rather be an author in her own right. Her debut children’s novel Pernilla oder wie die Beatles meine viele zu große Familie retteten was published in 2015. She lives in Munich with her husband and four children.