Daniel Kehlmann
Daniel Kehlmann is a celebrated German-Austrian novelist and playwright, born in 1975, who divides his time between Vienna and Berlin.
He is best known internationally for Measuring the World, a fictional account of Alexander von Humboldt and Carl Friedrich Gauss, translated into over forty languages and becoming one of the most successful German-language novels in decades.
Kehlmann's work has earned numerous prestigious awards, including the Kleist Prize, the Candide Prize, the WELT Literature Prize, and the Thomas Mann Prize.
Widely regarded as one of the most significant contemporary authors writing in German, his fiction skillfully blends history, philosophy, and imagination.
