Sibylle Mulot was born in Reutlingen in 1950. She studied German and Romance languages in Tübingen, Zurich, Toulouse and Rome and completed her doctoral thesis on Robert Musil in 1977. She went on to train as a journalist at the Süddeutsche Zeitung. She lived and worked as a freelance writer from 1980 until her death on 28 December 2022 in Tübingen.
»From her previous novels about the innocent years of childhood and on the subject of neighbours, we have come to know Sibylle Mulot as a shrewd, clever and extremely entertaining author.«
