Rüdiger Safranski was born in 1945 in Rottweil in Württemberg. His work has been translated into 19 languages and has received numerous awards. His acclaimed biographies of E.T.A. Hoffmann, Schopenhauer, Heidegger, Nietzsche and Schiller are all published by Carl Hanser Verlag. Translation rights available from: Carl Hanser Verlag Gmbh & Co KG Vilshofener Str. 10 81679 Munich, Germany Tel: +49 89 998 30 509 E-mail: barakat@hanser.de Contact: Friederike Barakat Translated editions of his works have been published by, among others: Atlas (The Netherlands); Gyldendal (Denmark); Grasset (France); Longanesi (Italy); Tusquets (Spain); Harvard University Press (UK/USA); Granta (UK); Weidenfeld & Nicolson (UK); Carmel Publishing House (Israel); Hosei UP (Japan); The Commercial Press (China). Applications for assistance with translation costs - Germany Carl Hanser Verlag was established by Carl Hanser in 1928 in Munich. Its founder’s interests in both literature and science have been maintained to the present day. The firm publishes fiction and non-fiction for both adults and children. Its authors include Italo Calvino, Umberto Eco, Jostein Gaarder, Lars Gustafsson, Milan Kundera, Harry Mulisch, Philip Roth, Susan Sontag, Botho Strauß, Raoul Chrott, Rafik Schami, Alfred Brendel, Elke Heidenreich and ten Nobel prize-winners, among them Elias Canetti, whose works have been translated into more than twenty different languages.