About Caroline Wahl

Caroline Wahl was born in 1995 and grew up near Heidelberg. She studied German literature in Tübingen and Berlin and then worked at several publishing houses. Her 2023 debut novel “22 Lengths” was a Der Spiegel bestseller and won her the Ulla Hahn Author’s Prize and the Grimmelshausen Sponsorship Prize. The book was chosen as the Independent Bookseller’s Favorite Novel 2023. Her second book, “Gale Force 17” (2024), also stormed the bestseller charts. Her newest novel, “The Assistant”, was published in German in August 2025. Caroline Wahl lives in Kiel.

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Die Assistentin

Die Assistentin

Caroline Wahl
Rowohlt

9783498007706

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Wir dachten, wir könnten fliegen

Wir dachten, wir könnten fliegen

Herausgegeben von Matthias Jügler
Illustriert von Barbara Dziadosz
Penguin

978-3-328-60453-2

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