Kehlmann also works as a screenwriter and wrote the script for the TV film Das letzte Problem. The novel Tyll was shortlisted for the International Booker Prize. He is a member of the Deutsche Akademie für Sprache und Dichtung.Ģ016–2017 he was a fellow at the New York Public Library's Cullman Center for Writers and Scholars. Since 2015, Kehlmann has held the Eberhard Berent Chair at New York University. Kehlmann currently lives in New York City and Berlin. His paternal grandparents were born Jewish, and his father was in a concentration camp during WWII. His family moved to his father's hometown Vienna at the age of six. Kehlmann was born in Munich, the son of the television director Michael Kehlmann and the actress Dagmar Mettler. Kehlmann's play Die Reise der Verlorenen was adapted for BBC radio by Tom Stoppard under the title The Voyage of the St. The novel was shortlisted for the 2020 International Booker Prize. Kehlmann's highly praised novel Tyll (2017), which sold more than 600.000 copies in German alone and was published in the US in February 2020, is currently being adapted into a TV series for Netflix by the makers of Dark. His novella You Should Have Left (2016) was adapted into a movie starring Kevin Bacon and Amanda Seyfried. In October 2017, his play Christmas Eve, also translated by Christopher Hampton, premiered at the Theatre Royal. Murray Abraham and transferred to the London West End in July 2017.

Kehlmann's play The Mentor, translated by Christopher Hampton, opened at Theatre Royal, Bath, in April 2017 starring F. He collaborated with Jonathan Franzen and Paul Reitter on Franzen's 2013 book The Kraus Project. Īll his subsequent novels reached the number one spot on Germany's Spiegel bestseller list and were translated into English. According to The New York Times, it was the world's second-best selling novel in 2006. In an ironic way, it deals with Alexander von Humboldt, one of the world's best-known naturalists of the 18th and 19th centuries, and Humboldt's relationship with the mathematician Carl Friedrich Gauss. His novel Die Vermessung der Welt (translated into English by Carol Brown Janeway as Measuring the World, 2006) is the best selling book in the German language since Patrick Süskind's Perfume was released in 1985. Daniel Kehlmann ( German: ( listen) born 13 January 1975) is a German-language novelist and playwright of both Austrian and German nationality.

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