Michael Kleeberg

Michael Kleeberg (born 24 August 1959 in Stuttgart), is a German writer and translator. He studied political science and modern history at the University of Hamburg and visual communication at the Kunsthochschule Hamburg. He lived in Rome, Berlin, Amsterdam and Paris in the 1980s and 1990s. Since 2000 he lives in Berlin as a full-time writer and translator from English and French.

Accolades

 * 1996: Anna Seghers-Preis
 * 2000: Lion-Feuchtwanger-Preis
 * 2008: Mainzer Stadtschreiber
 * 2008: Irmgard-Heilmann-Preis
 * 2011: New-York-Stipendium des Deutschen Literaturfonds
 * 2011: Evangelischer Buchpreis for Das Amerikanische Hospital
 * 2013: Saarländischer Kinder- und Jugendbuchpreis 2012
 * 2015: Friedrich-Hölderlin-Preis der Stadt Bad Homburg