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BERNHARD SCHLINK was born in Germany in 1944. A professor emeritus of law at Humboldt University, Berlin, and Cardozo Law School, New York, he is the author of the internationally bestselling novels The Reader, which became an Oscar-winning film starring Kate Winslet and Ralph Fiennes, and The Woman on the Stairs. His latest novel, Olga, was a no.1 international bestseller. He lives in Berlin and New York. CHARLOTTE COLLINS studied English Literature at
Cambridge University, and was an actor and radio journalist in Germany and the UK before becoming a literary translator. She was awarded the Goethe-Institut's Helen & Kurt Wolff Prize in 2017 for her translation of Robert Seethaler's A Whole Life. Other translations include Bernhard Schlink's Olga, The Eighth Life by Nino Haratischvili and Darkenbloom by Eva Menasse. |
