On the Track of Family History
July 23, 2010 by Julia Franck
Filed under Wingate Prize
There are some documents that, as a conscientious writer, I am glad to have read only after the publication of a novel, even though they are extremely interesting and contain potentially useful information. In the first part of this decade, when I was researching the first half of the twentieth- century for the history of the time and of my family, and reading the literature of the period, I did not know that my maternal grandmother had an uncle called Carl Ludwig Franck.Please Login or Register to read the rest of this content.
Translated by Anthea Bell
