About Dörthe Binkert
Born 1949. Dörthe Binkert is a German novelist, writer and literary editor.
Dörthe Binkert (born 1 January 1949) is a German novelist and non-fiction writer.
Biography Born in Hagen in Westphalia, Binkert grew up in Frankfurt where she studied German literature, art history and politics at Frankfurt University. For the next 30 years she worked as editor and editor-in-chief for major German publishers. Since 1975 she has been living in Zürich where she completed her first historical novel, Weit übers Meer (translated as She Wore Only White), in 2008. It is the story of a young woman who is trying to escape her past by taking a transatlantic voyage to America.
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Dörthe Binkert was born in 1949 in Hagen.
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Dörthe Binkert is a novelist, writer and literary editor.
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