# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
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# Generated: 2026-08-31T15:45:59.261Z

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name: "Patrick Süskind"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Patrick Süskind was born 26 March 1949 in Germany. In 1985 he published Perfume: The Story of a Murderer, a novel that would be translated into dozens of languages and sell millions of copies worldwide. The book follows an 18th-century perfumer with a superhuman sense of smell who commits murders to capture human scent. Süskind also works as a screenwriter. He is famously reclusive, granting almost no interviews and avoiding the literary spotlight his debut created.