Ursula Fricker

Ursula Fricker trained as an actor and worked in social work and was a co-founder of youth theater groups in Bern and Berlin before becoming a full-time writer. She has worked for the Süddeutsche Zeitung and the Aargauer Zeitung newspapers and contributed to various Swiss and German magazines. She is the author of several novels, including Ausser sich (2012), for which she was nominated for the Schweizer Buchpreis (Swiss Book Prize).