Lucy Fricke was born in Hamburg in 1974 and lives in Berlin. She has devoted herself to literature since 2003, after a career in the film industry. Of her five novels, La diplomate is the second to be published in French, after Les occasions manquées (Le Quartanier, 2021), selected for the Femina and Médicis foreign prizes in 2021, translated into eight languages and adapted for the cinema.
