Education
He studied political science and modern history at the University of Hamburg and visual communication at the Kunsthochschule Hamburg.
He studied political science and modern history at the University of Hamburg and visual communication at the Kunsthochschule Hamburg.
He lived in Rome, Berlin, Amsterdam and Paris in the 1980s and 1990s. Since 2000 he lives in Berlin as a full-time writer and translator from English and French. 1996: Anna Seghers-Preis.
1996: Anna Seghers-Preis 2000: Lion-Feuchtwanger-Preis 2008: Mainzer Stadtschreiber 2008: Irmgard-Heilmann-Preis 2011: New-York-Stipendium des Deutschen Literaturfonds 2011: Evangelischer Buchpreis for Das Amerikanische Hospital 2013: Saarländischer Kinderund Jugendbuchpreis 2012 2015: Friedrich-Hölderlin-Preis der Stadt Bad Homburg.
