Lucy Fricke was born in 1974, in Hamburg, Germany. She worked extensively in film and television before studying literature at the German Literature Institute in Leipzig. Fricke has gone on to publish the novels Thirst is Worse Than Homesickness (Durst ist schlimmer als Heimweh)(2007) and I Brought Friends (Ich habe Freunde mitgebracht)(2010). Since 2010 she directs the HAM.LIT festival for young literature in Hamburg. Her literary work have received many awards, among other the open mike-price and the grant of the Berlin Senate. In spring 2011 she was Writer-in-Residence at the Villa Kamogawa in Kyoto, Japan. In 2012, she was invited to the International Writing Program at the Iowa University, USA. Her new novel Takeshis Skin (Takeshis Haut) was published in 2014. Lucy Fricke lives in Berlin.
