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Juliet Ann Conlin (born 29 January 1970) is a British/German author.

Biography

Juliet was born in London within the sound of Bow Bells (and therefore can lay claim to being a Cockney by birth) in St Bartholomew's Hospital and grew up in England and Germany. With her father, a British Army officer, and her mother, a German civil servant, she lived in London, Iserlohn, Herford, Tidworth and Berlin. She attended Rye St Antony School in Oxford and the Katholische Schule Liebfrauen in Berlin.

After breaking off her studies at the Freie Universität Berlin, she married and joined the German Federal Foreign Office with postings to the then capital, Bonn, and Washington D.C. After studying at the University of Durham. she returned to Berlin as a research psychologist with the Max Planck Institute.

She holds an MA in Creative Writing from Lancaster University and a PhD in Psychology from the University of Durham. She works as a writer and translator and lives with her husband and four children in Berlin. She writes in both English and German. Her novels include 'The Fractured Man' (Cargo, 2013) and 'The Uncommon Life of Alfred Warner in Six Days' (Black & White Publishing, 2017). Her third novel, 'The Lives Before Us', is due to be published in March 2019 (Black & White Publishing). Juliet is represented by Jenny Brown at Jenny Brown Associates, and is a member of Scottish PEN.

She has two children from her first marriage (dissolved in 2009), Jake (born 1994) and Fay (born 1995) Walsh. In January 2010 she married Christian Lampe, a Berlin lawyer, and judge at the Arbeitsgericht Berlin since 2018. Their daughters Amy and June were born in Berlin in April 2009 and July 2010 respectively.