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Birgit Vanderbeke

Died
December 24, 2021
Age
65 years

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Birgit Vanderbeke (8 August 1956 – 24 December 2021) was a German writer.

Biography

Born in Dahme, East Germany, Vanderbeke grew up in Frankfurt am Main, Hesse, after her family moved to West Germany in 1961.[citation needed]

Vanderbeke studied Law, Germanic and Romance languages. The English translation of her debut novel, Das Muschelessen [de], by Jamie Bulloch was published in 2013 by Peirene Press as The Mussel Feast. In 1993, she settled in southern France.

She died on 24 December 2021, at age of 65.

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