Katja Früh, born in 1953 in Zurich, is a screenwriter and director. After training as an actress in Berlin, in 1978 she began to write and direct for the theatre. From 1980 onwards, she worked for the Swiss radio station DRS, produced shows for TV (including the series Lüthi und Blanc, which ran for 10 years) and also collaborated on projects with Martin Suter and Patrick Frey. Since 2014 she has been writing a regular column for the Tages-Anzeiger magazine. Perhaps That’s How Love Is is her first novel.