Daniel Kehlmann

Books on prize lists

• Lichtspiel

  In English

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  International Booker 2026 · Shortlist

  The Director

  Lichtspiel

  Daniel Kehlmann · 48 when first published

  Novel · 352 pages · Historical, Politics

  Translated by Ross Benjamin

  AIAI-generated summary:The film director G. W. Pabst, who escaped to Hollywood when the Nazis took power, finds himself back in his annexed Austrian homeland, courted by the propaganda minister in Berlin.

• Tyll

  In English

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  International Booker 2020 · Shortlist

  Tyll

  Tyll

  Daniel Kehlmann · 42 when first published

  Novel · 334 pages · Historical, War

  Translated by Ross Benjamin

  AIAI-generated summary:Early in the seventeenth century, Tyll Ulenspiegel, a miller's boy, has to run from his village after his father, who dabbles in magic and studies nature, clashes with the Church; with Nele, a baker's girl, he wanders a land torn by war.

• Die Vermessung der Welt

  In English

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  Deutscher Buchpreis 2005 · Shortlist

  Measuring the World

  Die Vermessung der Welt

  Daniel Kehlmann · 30 when first published

  Novel · 272 pages · Historical

  AIAI-generated summary:At the end of the eighteenth century, two young Germans set out to measure the world: Alexander von Humboldt fights his way through jungle and steppe, while the mathematician Carl Friedrich Gauss proves at home in Göttingen that space is curved.