Michael Kleeberg was born in Stuttgart in 1959. He grew up in Böblingen and Hamburg, where he later studied Political Science and Visual Communication. After extended stays in Rome, Berlin and Amsterdam, he moved to Paris in 1986 and was Director of an advertising agency there until 1994. He now lives in Berlin and works as a writer and translator from French and English. He has translated works by Marcel Proust, Joris-Karl Huysmans and John Dos Passos.

Photo: © Bettina Keller

Awards:

• 1996 Anna Seghers Prize
• 2000 Lion Feuchtwanger Prize