Daniel Kehlmann was born in 1975 in Munich, the son of a director and an actress. He attended a Jesuit college in Vienna, traveled widely, and has won several awards for previous novels and short stories, most recently the 2005 Candide Award. His works have been translated into more than twenty languages, and Measuring the World became an instant best seller in several European countries. Kehlmann is spending the fall of 2006 as writer-in-residence at New York University’s Deutsches Haus. He lives in Vienna.
"A masterfully realized, wonderfully entertaining and deeply
satisfying novel. . . . Addictively readable and genuinely and
deeply funny."
—Los Angeles Times
"Kehlmann's lightly surreal style [is] a mixture of comedy, romance
and the macabre, with flashes of magical realism that read like
Borges in the Black Forest."
—The Washington Post Book World
"Elegant and measured in design and expression. . . . What
distinguishes Kehlmann are quickness of pace and lightness of
touch."
—The New York Times Book Review
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