Daniel Kehlmann was born in Munich in 1975 and lives in Vienna, Berlin and New York. His works include Measuring the World, Me & Kaminski, Fame and F, and have won numerous prizes, including the Candide Prize, the Literature Prize for the Konrad Adenauer Foundation, the Doderer Prize, the Kleist Prize, the WELT Literature Prize and the Thomas Mann Prize. Measuring the World was translated into more than forty languages and is one of the biggest successes in postwar German literature.