JACQUELIN PERSKE

AUSTRALIAN WRITER PERSKE IS BEST KNOWN IN THE UK AND DOWN UNDER FOR HER WORK ON THE CRY, a fractured, emotionally charged adaptation of Helen FitzGerald’s novel about a young couple struggling with parenthood when unthinkable tragedy strikes. With credits on other shows such as Fires, Love My Way and Deadline Gallipoli, she is now working with The Cry producer Synchronicity Films once again on The Tattooist of Auschwitz. Based on Heather Morris’s novel of the same name, this Sky Original drama tells the true story of Lale Sokolov, a Jewish prisoner given the job of tattooing identification numbers on fellow prisoners’ arms in the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp during the Second World War.