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

[2] In 1978 the family moved to West Berlin where they spent nine months in a refugee camp.

[5] She worked as an editor for Sender Freies Berlin and contributed to various newspapers and magazines.

Her three most recent novels, Lagerfeuer [de],[7] Die Mittagsfrau [de],[8] and Rücken an Rücken,[9] 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.