New Lives

A NOTE ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Ingo Schulze, born in Dresden in 1962, studied classical philology at the University of Jena. His first book,

33 Moments of Happiness,

won two German literary awards, the prestigious Alfred Döblin Prize, and the Ernst Willner Prize for Literature. In 2007 he was awarded both the Leipzig Book Fair Prize and the Thuringia Literature Prize. He is a member of the German Academy for Language and Literature. He lives in Berlin.