Daniel Kehlmann, born in Munich in 1975, was awarded the Candide Prize, the Per Olov Enquist Prize, the Kleist Prize, the Thomas Mann Prize and the Friedrich Hölderlin Prize for his work. His novel Tyll was shortlisted for the International Booker Prize. Daniel Kehlmann lives in Berlin.
‘Satire only comes into its own against the powerful; against the powerless it is cheap mockery from above.’
Daniel Kehlmann on writing, translated from the German by Ross Benjamin
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