Wolfgang Herrndorf, born 1965 in Hamburg, studied painting in Nuremberg and now lives in Berlin. He wrote the novel In Plüschgewittern (‘Storm of plush’), painted the cover picture for Frank Schulz’s Hagen Trilogy, and is a contributor to the Zentrale Intelligenz Agentur in Berlin. He was awarded the Public’s Prize in the 2004 Ingeborg Bachmann prize competition for a preliminary version of his story Diesseits des Van-Allan-Gürtels (‘This Side of the Van Allen Belt’).

Photo: © Ira Struebel

Awards:

• 2004 Awarded the Public’s Prize (Kelag-Publikumspreis) in the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize Competition, Klagenfurt, for Diesseits des Van-Allen-Gürtels
• 2008 German Narrators' Award