. Rebecca Solnit. Aus der nahen Ferne. Hoffmann und Campe, Hamburg 2014.

West, a 2013 German film adaptation of the novel Lagerfeuer opened in US-American theatres on November 7, 2014.

In 1978 the family moved to West Berlin where they spent nine months in a refugee camp. and later to Schleswig-Holstein. Franck studied German Literature and American Studies at the Free University of Berlin and spent some time in the United States, Mexico and Guatemala. She worked as an editor for Sender Freies Berlin and contributed to various newspapers and magazines. She lives with her children in Berlin.

Julia Franck (born 20 February 1970, in East Berlin) is a German writer.

Franck is the author of five novels, one short story collections, and the editor of a collection of essays. Her three most recent novels, Lagerfeuer, Die Mittagsfrau, and Rücken an Rücken, as well as the collection Grenzübergänge, engage explicitly with twentieth-century German history. Lagerfeuer is set in the West Berlin refugee camp Berlin-Marienfelde in the 1970s and follows four main characters, one of whom, Nelly Senff, has fled East Berlin with her two young children. Rücken an Rücken is also set during the years of Germany’s division, ending in the early 1960s, and Die Mittagsfrau spans from World War I to divided Germany of the 1950s.

Franck is the granddaughter of sculptor Ingeborg Hunzinger (1915-2009) and a great granddaughter of the artist and illustrator Philipp Franck (1860-1944).