Born in Turkey, Zaimoglu migrated with his parents to Germany in 1965. He is a poet and visual artist, and his central themes are the problems of the second and third generation of Turkish immigrants …
Ferit Orhan Pamuk is a Turkish novelist, screenwriter, academic, and recipient of the 2006 Nobel Prize in Literature. One of Turkey's most prominent novelists, he has sold over 13 million books in 63 …
Ian McEwan studied at the University of Sussex, where he received a BA degree in English Literature in 1970 and later received his MA degree in English Literature at the University of East Anglia.
Florian Illies ist ein deutscher Journalist, Kunsthändler, Kunsthistoriker und Buchautor. Ab Januar 2019 war er geschäftsführender Verleger des Rowohlt Verlags.
Stefan Zweig was one of the world's most famous writers during the 1920s and 1930s, especially in the U.S., South America, and Europe. He produced novels, plays, biographies, and journalist pieces. Am…
László Krasznahorkai is a Hungarian novelist and screenwriter who is known for critically difficult and demanding novels, often labelled as postmodern, with dystopian and bleak melancholic themes. He …
Christian Kracht is a Swiss writer and journalist. Kracht was born in Saanen. His father, Christian Kracht Sr., was chief representative for the Axel Springer publishing company in the 1960s. Kracht at…
Growing up in Bad Düben near Leipzig as a clergyman's son and thus not allowed to attend the Erweiterte Oberschule in the communist East, he received s…
Wolf Haas is the author of nine books in the bestselling Detective Brenner mystery series, three volumes of which have been made into popular German-language films. Among other prizes, the Brenner boo…
Mit 19 Jahren begann Hagena ihr Studium der Anglistik und Germanistik in Marburg, Freiburg und London, welches sie 1992 beendete. Zwei Jahre später verbrachte sie einen Forschungsaufenthalt an der Zür…
Katherine May is an internationally bestselling author and podcaster living in Whitstable, UK. Her hybrid memoir Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times became a New York Times, Su…
Thomas Melle, 1975 geboren, studierte Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft und Philosophie in Tübingen, Austin (Texas) und Berlin. Er ist Autor vielgespielter Theaterstücke und übersetzte u. a. William…
Szczepan Twardoch, ur. 1979, pisarz i publicysta. Z wykształcenia socjolog, studiował socjologię i filozofię na Międzywydziałowych Indywidualnych Studiach Humanistycznych na Uniwersytecie Śląskim w Ka…
Dorothee Elmiger is a Swiss writer. She presently lives in Switzerland. Elmiger is considered one of the most promising young Swiss writers, especially after winning the second Ingeborg Bachmann Prize…
Kristine Bilkau, born in 1974, studied History and Literature at Hamburg University and Tulane University, New Orleans. Her debut novel „Die Glücklichen" (The Happy Ones) about an urban family getting…
Caroline Wahl (born 1995 in Mainz) is a German author. Her debut novel, 22 Bahnen, was published in April 2023 by DuMont Buchverlag. After her school days, she studied German studies and German litera…
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…
