The Director

A thrilling, vivid reconstruction of famous people caught up in the web of infamous times . . . one of the most provocative and entertaining novels of the year so far

About the author

Daniel Kehlmann was born in Munich in 1975 and lives in Vienna, Berlin and New York. He has published six novels: Measuring the World, Me & Kaminski, Fame, F, You Should Have Left and Tyll and has won numerous prizes, including the Candide Prize, the Literature Prize of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation, the Doderer Prize, The Kleist Prize, the WELT Literature Prize, and the Thomas Mann Prize. Measuring the World was translated into more than forty languages and is one of the biggest successes in post-war German literature.Ross Benjamin is a prizewinning translator and writes literary criticism for The Times Literary Supplement, among other publications. He was a Fulbright Scholar and a Guggenheim Fellow and graduated from Vassar college. He lives in New York.

Product details

• Authors: Daniel Kehlmann, Kehlmann Daniel
• Assisted by: Benjamin Ross (Translation)
• Publisher: Riverrun
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Release: 05.06.2026
• EAN: 9781529435153
• ISBN: 978-1-5294-3515-3
• No. of pages: 352
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; austria, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), Historical fiction, FICTION / Literary, Fiction in translation, c 1938 to c 1946 (World War Two period), Individual Film Directors, Film-Makers, Biographical fiction / autobiographical fiction, Modern and contemporary fiction: literary and general, FICTION / Biographical & Autofiction