Daniel Kehlmann

About The Author

Daniel Kehlmann was born in Munich in 1975. His novels and plays have won numerous prizes, including the Candide Preis, the Heimito von Doderer Literature Prize, the Kleist Prize, the WELT-Literaturpreis, and the Thomas Mann Prize. His novel Tyll was shortlisted for the 2020 International Booker Prize, and Measuring the World has been translated into more than forty languages and is one of the biggest successes in post-war German literature. He currently lives in Berlin and New York.

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Books by Daniel Kehlmann

Afrika

A Novel

By Daniel Kehlmann

Translated by Ross Benjamin

From “one of the brightest, most pleasure-giving writers at work today” (Jeffrey Eugenides) comes a comic tale of casual barbarism, dangerous lunacy, and accidental authority.

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