Candide Preis
1 appearances
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Edition 11 (2005) Winner
Daniel Kehlmann
だにえる・けーるまん
Daniēru Kēruman
Profile
- Gender
- Male
- Born
- 1975-01-13 （Munich）
- Nationality
- German, Austrian
- Languages
- German
- Residence History
- Munich (birthplace) → Vienna (from age 6) → Berlin (currently)
Career
- Occupations
- novelist, playwright, screenwriter
- Active Years
- 1997-2025
- Affiliations
- New York University (Eberhard Berent Chair), Deutsche Akademie für Sprache und Dichtung
- Memberships
- Deutsche Akademie für Sprache und Dichtung
- Nominations
- International Booker Prize 2020 shortlist (Tyll)
Awards
| Year | Award | Work | Category | Organization | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2006 | Kleist Prize | Measuring the World | — | — | 受賞 |
| 2007 | WELT Literaturpreis | — | — | — | 受賞 |
| 2008 | Thomas-Mann-Preis | — | — | — | 受賞 |
| 2018 | Friedrich-Hölderlin-Preis | — | — | — | 受賞 |
| 2024 | Ludwig Börne Prize | — | — | — | 受賞 |
Kleist Prize
2006
Work:
Measuring the World
Result:
受賞
WELT Literaturpreis
2007
Result:
受賞
Thomas-Mann-Preis
2008
Result:
受賞
Friedrich-Hölderlin-Preis
2018
Result:
受賞
Ludwig Börne Prize
2024
Result:
受賞
Awards & Nominations
Kleist Prize
1 appearances
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Edition 40 (2006) Winner
Anton Wildgans Prize of Austrian Industry
1 appearances
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Edition 56 (2019) Winner
Works
Major Works
Measuring the World
2005 historical novelAn ironic novel dealing with Alexander von Humboldt and Carl Friedrich Gauss.
scienceexplorationmathematics
Adaptations
- [film] Measuring the World / Detlev Buck (2012)
Translations
- translated by Carol Brown Janeway
Bibliography
- Beerholms Vorstellung (1997)
- Unter der Sonne (1998)
- Mahlers Zeit (1999)
- Der fernste Ort (2001)
- Ich und Kaminski (2003)
- Measuring the World (2005)
- Requiem für einen Hund (2008)
- Fame (2009)
- F. (2013)
- You Should Have Left (2016)
- Tyll (2017)
- The Director (2023)
Style & Themes
- Literary Style
- ironicintellectualblending historical fact and fiction
- Recurring Motifs
- identityfamehistorical figures
Legacy
One of the best-selling German-language novelists; Measuring the World is a massive bestseller.
In Popular Culture
- Tyll to be adapted into Netflix series
Trivia
- Son of television director Michael Kehlmann.
- Paternal grandparents were Jewish.
- Married with a son.