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Daniel Kehlmann


Born
in Munich, Germany
January 13, 1975

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Literature & Fiction


Daniel Kehlmann is a German-Austrian author.

His novel Measuring the World (German: Die Vermessung der Welt) was translated into more than forty languages. Awards his work has received include the Candide Prize, the Literature Prize of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation, the Heimito von Doderer Literature Award, the Kleist Prize, the WELT Literature Prize, and the Thomas Mann Prize. Kehlmann divides his time between Vienna and Berlin.

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Average rating: 3.7 · 73,109 ratings · 7,404 reviews · 78 distinct works • Similar authors
Measuring the World
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3.73 avg rating — 21,721 ratings — published 2005 — 155 editions
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Tyll
3.95 avg rating — 14,897 ratings — published 2017 — 74 editions
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You Should Have Left
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3.41 avg rating — 14,432 ratings — published 2016 — 3 editions
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Ruhm. Ein Roman in neun Ges...
3.50 avg rating — 7,750 ratings — published 2009 — 15 editions
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The Director
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4.19 avg rating — 4,362 ratings — published 2023 — 32 editions
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3.68 avg rating — 3,395 ratings — published 2013 — 59 editions
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Ich und Kaminski
3.41 avg rating — 2,730 ratings — published 2003 — 53 editions
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Beerholms Vorstellung
3.68 avg rating — 681 ratings — published 1997 — 24 editions
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Mahlers Zeit
3.55 avg rating — 626 ratings — published 2001 — 17 editions
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Der fernste Ort
3.34 avg rating — 548 ratings — published 2001 — 9 editions
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“People who have experienced nothing love to tell stories while people who have experienced a great deal suddenly have no stories to tell at all.”
― Daniel Kehlmann, Ruhm. Ein Roman in neun Geschichten
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“It's precisely the sense that we're different that makes us so banal.”
― Daniel Kehlmann, Ruhm. Ein Roman in neun Geschichten
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“Whenever things were frightening, it was a good idea to measure them.”
― Daniel Kehlmann, Measuring the World
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