After studying in Bonn, Madrid and Paris she graduated as PhD in Linguistics and entered publishing in 1993. For 25 years she worked as editor and later as editorial director for children’s and juvenile literature in publishing houses in Germany (Patmos, Sauerländer, Boje/Baumhaus). In 2017 she founded Peretti Literary Agency(opens in a new window) in Cologne, specializing in projects, authors and illustrators for young readers; the Agency also handles translation rights from the US, Canada, UK and Australia into the German speaking market.
