Daniel Kehlmann
Daniel Kehlmann (; born 13 January 1975) is a German-language novelist and playwright of both Austrian and German nationality. His novel "Die Vermessung der Welt" (translated into English by Carol Brown Janeway as "Measuring the World", 2006) is the best selling book in the German language since Patrick Süskind's "Perfume" was released in 1985. In an ironic way, it deals with Alexander von Humboldt, one of the world's best-known naturalists of the 18th and 19th centuries, and Humboldt's relationship with the mathematician Carl Friedrich Gauss. According to "The New York Times", it was the  world's second-best selling novel in 2006. All his subsequent novels reached the number one spot on Germany's "Spiegel" bestseller list and were translated into English. He collaborated with Jonathan Franzen and Paul Reitter on Franzen's 2013 book "The Kraus Project". Kehlmann's play "The Mentor", translated by Christopher Hampton, opened at Theatre Royal, Bath, in April 2017 starring F. Murray Abraham and transferred to the London West End in July 2017. In October 2017, his play "Christmas Eve", also translated by Christopher Hampton, premiered at the Theatre Royal. His novella "You Should Have Left" (2016) was  adapted into a movie starring Kevin Bacon and Amanda Seyfried. Kehlmann's highly praised novel "Tyll" (2017), which sold more than 600.000 copies in German alone and was published in the US in February 2020, is currently being adapted into a TV series for Netflix by the makers of "Dark". The novel was shortlisted for the 2020 International Booker Prize. Kehlmann's play "Die Reise der Verlorenen" was adapted for BBC radio by Tom Stoppard under the title "The Voyage of the St. Louis." Life and career. Kehlmann was born in Munich, the son of the television director Michael Kehlmann  and the actress Dagmar Mettler. His family moved to his father's hometown Vienna at the age of six. His paternal grandparents were born Jewish, and his father was in a concentration camp during WWII. Kehlmann currently lives in New York City and Berlin. Since 2015, Kehlmann has held the Eberhard Berent Chair at New York University. He is a member of the Deutsche Akademie für Sprache und Dichtung. 2016–2017 he was a fellow at the New York Public Library's Cullman Center for Writers and Scholars. The novel "Tyll" was shortlisted for the International Booker Prize. Kehlmann also works  as a screenwriter and wrote the script for the TV film "Das letzte Problem". He adapted Thomas Mann's novel "Confessions of Felix Krull Confidence Man" for an upcoming movie.