Steven Uhly

Steven Uhly, born in Cologne in 1964, is of German-Bengali descent. He studied Romance languages and literature and German studies in Cologne, Bonn and Lisbon, and earned a doctorate on multipersonality as a poetics. In 2002, as a DAAD scholar, he headed the German Institute at the Federal University of Pará in Belém, Brazil. His debut novel, “Mein Leben in Aspik,” was published in 2010. Uhly received the Tukan Prize of the City of Munich in 2011 for “Adams Fuge.” His novel “Glückskind” became a bestseller and was adapted for television by Michael Verhoeven. “Königreich der Dämmerung” was translated into several languages and named one of the Goethe-Institut’s ten best books of the year. Uhly has written novels and poetry and has translated poetry and prose from Spanish, Portuguese and English.