Bernhard Schlink

Bernhard Schlink was born in Germany in 1944. He is professor of public law at the Humboldt University of Berlin and from 1988 to 2006, he sat on the Constitutional Law court for the state of Nordrhein-Westfalen, Munster. He has taught in Freiburg, Bonn, and Frankfurt and is a regular visitor at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law in New York. A best-selling novelist, he is the author of the major international best-selling novel The Reader (currently a film by Stephen Daldry starring Kate Winslet and Ralph Fiennes), Homecoming, and Flights of Love: Stories, as well as several prize-winning crime novels including, The Gordian Knot, Self Deception, Self-Administered Justice, and Self Slaughter. He lives in Bonn and Berlin. (2008)

Edward Marriott meets Bernhard Schlink | Books | The Observer

Taking Bernhard Schlink's Holocaust novel from book to film | Film | The Guardian

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February 2, 2009