Eugen Ruge

Eugen Ruge was born in 1954 in Soswa in the Ural region and studied mathematics in East Berlin. From 1980 to 1985, he worked at the Central Institute for Physics of the Earth of the Academy of Sciences of the GDR. He subsequently began writing, primarily plays and radio dramas. His novel In Times of Fading Light was published in 2011 and received, among other honors, the German Book Prize. It was followed by the novels Cabo de Gata, Follower, and Metropol, as well as further dramatic and prose works.