Marcus Ingendaay

Marcus Ingendaay, born in 1958, studied English and German literature at the universities of Cologne and Cambridge. After working as a reporter and advertising copywriter, he became a freelance writer and translator. He translated works by authors including William Gaddis and David Foster Wallace into German. His translations received the Heinrich Maria Ledig-Rowohlt Prize in 1997 and the Helmut M. Braem Translation Prize in 2000. Die Taxifahrerin was his first novel.