Ingo Schulze was born in Dresden in 1962, studied classics at Jena University, and then worked as a dramaturg and newspaper editor in Altenburg. He has lived in Berlin since 1993. He and his partner Natalia Bensch have two daughters, Clara and Franziska. He won various prizes including the Aspekte Prize for Literature for his first book, 33Augenblicke des Glücks (‘33 moments of happiness’). In 1998 he won both the Berlin Literature Prize and the associated Johannes Bobrowski Medal for Simple Storys (‘Simple stories’). The New Yorker numbered him the same year among the ‘Six Best European Young Novelists’, and the London Observer described him as one of the ‘twenty one writers to look out for in the 21st century’. In 2007 he won the Leipzig Book Fair Prize for his second collection of stories Handy (‘Cell phone’). His books have been translated into twenty four languages.

Photo: © Jim Rakete /Berlin Verlag

Awards:

• 1995 Alfred Döblin Prize
• 1995 Ernst Willner Prize
• 1995 aspekte Prize for Literature
• 1998 Berlin Prize for Literature, including the Johannes Bobrowski Medal
• 2001 Joseph Breitbach Prize for Literature
• 2006 Peter Weiss Prize
• since 2006 Member of the Academy of the Arts, Berlin and of the German Academy for Language and Literature, Darmstadt
• 2007 Fellowship of the German Academy at the Villa Massimo in Rome
• 2007 Literature Prize of Thuringia
• 2007 Prize of the Leipzig Book Fair