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Martin Mosebach
was born in 1951. He studied law, and has lived in Frankfurt as a writer since 1980. He has published novels, stories, and collections of poems, written scripts for several films, opera libretti, theatre and radio plays. A regular contributor to the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, he also writes on art and literature for many other newspapers and journals. He was awarded the Hermito von Doderer Prize in 1999, the Kleist Prize in 2006 and is this year’s winner of the Georg Büchner Prize, Germany’s most important literature prize . ‘Since 1983 Mosebach has been writing the most astonishing novels and the most elegant of essays.’ – Die Zeit
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