Umberto Eco was an Italian medievalist, philosopher, semiotician, novelist, cultural critic, and political and social commentator. In English, he is best known for his popular 1980 novel The Name of t…
Bernhard Schlink is a German lawyer, academic, and novelist. He is best known for his novel The Reader, which was first published in 1995 and became an international bestseller. He won the 2014 Park K…
Primo Levi was an Italian Jewish chemist, writer, and Holocaust survivor whose literary work has had a profound impact on how the world understands the Holocaust and its aftermath. Born in Turin in 19…
Florian Illies ist ein deutscher Journalist, Kunsthändler, Kunsthistoriker und Buchautor. Ab Januar 2019 war er geschäftsführender Verleger des Rowohlt Verlags.
Elizabeth Strout is the author of several novels, including: Abide with Me, a national bestseller and BookSense pick, and Amy and Isabelle, which won the Los Angeles Times Art Seidenbaum Award for Fir…
Marlen Haushofer was born in Frauenstein, Molln, Austria on April the 11th, 1920. She went to a Catholic gymnasium that was turned in a public school under the Nazi regime. She started her studies on …
Håkan Nesser is a Swedish author and teacher who has written a number of successful crime fiction novels. He has won Best Swedish Crime Novel Award three times, and his novel Carambole won the Glass K…
Viola Roggenkamp is a German author who lives in Hamburg. She comes from a German-Jewish background, studied psychology, philosophy and music. For a time she lived in Asia and Israel. She worked as a …
Katia Mann (born Katharina Hedwig Pringsheim) was the youngest child and only daughter (among four sons) of the German Jewish mathematician and artist Alfred Pringsheim and his wife Hedwig Pringsheim-…
Uwe Wittstock (b. 1955) is a literary critic and writer, he was editor of "Focus", he has worked as literary editor for the FAZ, as editor at S. Fischer and as deputy head of feature pages and cultura…
He studied political science and German language and literature studies. He works as literary critic for the weekly Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung.
Der Autor Ewald Arenz kam 1965 in Nürnberg zur Welt und studierte englische und amerikanische Literatur und Geschichte. Seit Beginn der 1990er Jahre ist er als Autor tätig und hat neben einigen Glosse…
Volker Kutscher ist ein deutscher Schriftsteller. 1995 veröffentlichte er mit Bullenmord seinen ersten Kriminalroman im Kölner Verlag Emons. 2008 erschien unter dem Titel Der nasse Fisch der erste Ban…
Nelio Biedermann ist am Zürichsee aufgewachsen. Seine Familie stammt väterlicherseits aus ungarischem Adel, seine Großeltern flohen in den 1950er Jahren in die Schweiz. Biedermann studiert Germanistik…
