Navid Kermani, born 1967, lives as a writer in Cologne. After completing school, he studied Orientalism, Philosophy, and Theater in Cologne, Cairo, and Bonn, where he received the post-doctoral degree (“Habilitation”).
For his literary and academic work he was awarded numerous prices, inluding the Hannah-Arendt-Price, the Kleist-Price, the Joseph-Breitbach-Preis, the Peace Price of the German Book Trade, the Hölderlin-Price and the Thomas Mann-Price.
His literary books are published by Carl Hanser Verlag (German) and Seagull Books (English), his academic and non-fictional works by C. H. Beck (German) and Polity Press (English).