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Daniel Kehlmann , born in 1975 in Munich, has received several awards for his work, including the Candide Prize, the Per-Olov Enquist Prize, the Kleist Prize, the Thomas Mann Prize, and the Friedrich Hölderlin Prize. His novel Measuring the World was one of the most successful German novels of the post-war period, and his novel Tyll also topped the bestseller lists for months and made it to the shortlist for the International Booker Prize. The Director was an international sensation. Daniel Kehlmann lives in Berlin and New York.

Daniel Kehlmann was born in Munich in 1975. His works have won the Candide Prize, the Literature Prize of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation, the Doderer Prize, the Kleist Prize, the WELT Literature Prize and the Thomas Mann Prize. His novel Measuring the World was translated in more than 40 foreign languages and is one of the biggest successes in post-war German literature. Daniel Kehlmann lives in Berlin and New York.