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Patrick Süskind is read about 654 times a day, in 55 languages.
A typical day, 30 days to 15 October 2026
The middle day of the days counted, so one week of news cannot move it. The line under it is the last 390 days, one point a day.
Something wrong?He wrote a novel about a murderer obsessed with scent that became one of the most translated German books since 1945 - then mostly vanished from public view.
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In eighteenth-century France there lived a man who was one of the most gifted and abominable personages in an era that knew no lack of gifted and abominable personages.
The rivers stank, the marketplaces stank, the churches stank, it stank beneath the bridges and in the palaces.
The odour of humans is always a fleshly odour - that is, a sinful odour.
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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.
In common with Patrick
Veronica FerresAlso in Rossini (1997)
Corinna HarfouchAlso in Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (2006)
Mario AdorfAlso in Rossini (1997)
Alexandra Maria LaraAlso in About the Looking for and the Finding of Love (2005)
Rachel Hurd-WoodAlso in Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (2006)
Tom TykwerAlso in Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (2006)Fame.am measures public visibility signals. It does not measure human value, talent, morality, or credibility.