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by Daniel Kehlmann (Author), Ross Benjamin (Translator)
The New York Times Best Historical Fiction of 2020
The Guardian's Best Fiction of 2020
Thrillist's Best Books of the Year
The result is both a riveting story and a moving tribute to the power of art in the face of the senseless brutality of history. Translated from the German by Ross Benjamin
Author Biography
DANIEL KEHLMANN's works have won the Candide Prize, the Hölderlin Prize, the Kleist Prize, the Welt Literature Prize, and the Thomas Mann Prize. He was a fellow at the Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library in 2016-17. Measuring the World has been translated into more than forty languages.
ROSS BENJAMIN's previous translations include Friedrich Hölderlin's Hyperion, Joseph Roth's Job, and Daniel Kehlmann's You Should Have Left. He was awarded the 2010 Helen and Kurt Wolff Translator's Prize for his rendering of Michael Maar's Speak, Nabokov, and he received a Guggenheim fellowship for his work on Franz Kafka's diaries.
Number of Pages: 352
Dimensions: 0.9 x 8 x 5.2 IN
Publication Date: March 09, 2021
Award: Man Booker International Prize (2020)
