GermanyPatrick Süskind
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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.
— Ch. 1
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Patrick Süskind
German writer and screenwriter
- Fame60.0
- Momentum5.7
- Germany rank#199
- Writers rank#135
- Wikipedia22.5K
Born 1949 · age 77Germany
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Updated 2026-06-21
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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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.
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Patrick Süskind
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The rivers stank, the marketplaces stank, the churches stank, it stank beneath the bridges and in the palaces.
— Ch. 1
Patrick Süskind
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The odour of humans is always a fleshly odour—that is, a sinful odour.
— Ch. 3
Patrick Süskind
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He decided in favor of life out of sheer spite and malice.
— Ch. 4
Patrick Süskind
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Whoever has survived his own birth on a rubbish heap is not so easily shoved back out of this world again.
— Ch. 4
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Momentum5.7
Historical24.6
Now attention10.0
Source confidence65.0
Completeness60.0
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