THE WRITER

Writing has been a lifelong passion for Ariane Sommer. She began penning fairytales and adventure stories for her schoolmates when she was 8-years old. In fact, she taught herself to read from a Pink Panther cartoon book and proceeded to read fairytales to her classmates in Kindergarten at the age of only 4.

Sommer is also a collector of rare books and first editions. Oscar Wilde, Bertolt Brecht, Mark Twain, Lewis Carroll, Susan Cooper, Madeleine L'Engle, Charles Dickens, Antoine de Saint-Exupery, George Sand and Ernest Hemingway are amongst her favorite writers, to name just a few.

Sommer's most recent work, "Foreign Affairs", a collection of contemporary, edgy short stories narrated from a female perspective was published by Weissbooks and released on the German-speaking markets July 2009.

"The Bible of Behavior", a guide to personal style and etiquette, published by Argon and Fischer Publishing Houses, was an immediate success in the German market. The clever, hilarious and socially relevant insights of Sommer broke the barriers of the more traditional books of the genre and was hailed as "The style guide for the Sex and  The City generation."

Additionally short stories of Sommer have been published in German VOGUE and BLANK magazine.

She has been featured as both a regular and guest columnist in European periodicals such as Max, InStyle, Playboy, Revue, MODE, Bunte, Cosmopolitan, Celebrity, BILD, Die Zeit.

Presently Sommer is writing a weekly column for German Gala magazine.