HANNS-JOSEF ORTHEIL

Hanns-Josef Ortheil was born in Cologne in 1951. He is a writer, pianist and professor of creative writing and cultural journalism at the University of Hildesheim. His body of work comprises more than 70 book publications. Ortheil is one of the most-read German writers working today. For his work, he has received the Thomas Mann Prize, the Nicolas Born Prize, and the Hannelore Greve Literature Prize, among others. Hanns-Josef Ortheil is one of the most widely read contemporary German writers. His novels have been translated into over twenty languages.