Petra Durst-Benning

Petra Durst-Benning is a well known German author, who has successfully written a few historical fiction and romance novels. All the novels written by her are mostly in the German language. Hence, they had to be translated into the English language for the readers outside of Germany can also read and enjoy them. Samuel Willcocks has done the translation work of almost all her novels. Other than the successful standalone novels, author Benning has also written a total of three novel series, which are based on the romance and historical fiction genres. She was born on February 11, 1965 in Germany and is widely popular as a German author. Before becoming an author, Benning completed her graduation from Germany in the subject of agricultural sciences. Initially, she wanted to become a nationally recognized translator and business correspondent. After a while, author Benning began working as the editor of a dog magazine. In between the working days of her job, she used to write several stories on her own. Later, she went on to work as a nonfiction writer and mainly wrote about the natural cures of the diseases in animals. It was at the time of the beginning of the 1990s decade that she began writing novels based on the historical fiction genre. Slowly and steadily, author Benning kept on becoming successful in her sincere attempts of writing historical fiction novels. And by the start of the year 2015, she turned her course towards writing contemporary literature novels.