Elke Schmitter (born 25 January 1961,

Krefeld Krefeld ( , ; li, Krieëvel ), also spelled Crefeld until 1925 (though the spelling was still being used in British papers throughout the Second World War), is a city in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is located northwest of Düsseldorf, i ...

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) is a German journalist, novelist and poet. After studying philosophy in

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, Schmitter worked as a journalist until 1994, when she became a full-time writer. Her first novel to be translated into English was ''Mrs Sartoris'', published in German in 2000 and English in 2003, .

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