Michael Kleeberg

Born in Stuttgart in 1959, Michael Kleeberg is a German-language writer, essayist and literary translator. He studied political science and history, lived in Paris from 1986 to 1999 after stays in Rome and Amsterdam, and translated works by Marcel Proust, John Dos Passos, Graham Greene and Paul Bowles, among others. His novels include Ein Garten im Norden (1998), Der König von Korsika (2001), Karlmann (2007), Das amerikanische Hospital (2010) and Vaterjahre (2014). His awards include the title of Mainz City Writer in 2008, the Evangelischer Buchpreis in 2011, the Friedrich Hölderlin Prize in 2015 and the Konrad Adenauer Foundation Literature Prize in 2016.