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Claudia Spahr was born in Yorkshire to Swiss parents and educated at Bradford Girls’ Grammar School. At age fifteen her family moved back to Switzerland where she passed her Baccalaureate in German. She began her studies at Berne University and then moved back to the UK, where she completed a BA in Writing and Publishing with Film and Literary Studies. She worked a while for the BBC German Service and then trained as a journalist with Swiss Radio International. Having acquired a solid foundation in news and current affairs she switched to Swiss National Television, where she spent a few years racing around the country as a reporter. They decided she had enough cheek to become a foreign correspondent and sent her back to London to cover the UK and Ireland. The budget wasn’t huge (well, neither is Switzerland) so she was in effect ‘The London Office’, covering all stories from Britain joining the Iraq war to Roger Federer’s first Wimbledon victory to Northern Ireland peace talks. For the past three years she has been working as a freelancer, writing a novel and researching her latest project ‘So what if he’s younger’. Her nomadic tendencies led her to live in Cambodia, New York and Brazil but now she generally resides with her Spanish partner in Ibiza. She is bilingual in English and German and fluent in French, Spanish, Italian and Portuguese.
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