Daniel Kehlmann, born in Munich in 1975, has been awarded the Candide Prize, the Per Olov Enquist Prize, the Kleist Prize, the Thomas Mann Prize, and the Friedrich Hölderlin Prize, among others, for his work. His novel Measuring the World was one of the most successful German novels of the post-war period, and his novel Tyll was also on the bestseller lists for months and made it onto the shortlist for the International Booker Prize. Daniel Kehlmann lives in Berlin and New York.