About the author
Daniel Kehlmann is a German-Austrian novelist and playwright whose fiction uses historical figures, intellectual comedy, and controlled unreality to examine ambition and power.
Measuring the World brought him an international readership; Tyll and The Director place artists inside periods when political violence makes professional accommodation morally consequential.
Where to start
Start with The Director for G. W. Pabst’s return to Nazi-controlled Austria, or Measuring the World for Kehlmann’s comic novel about Humboldt and Gauss.
