Martin Mosebach
Germany
Born in 1951, Martin Mosebach began writing shortly before his final legal examination. Since 1980, he has worked as a freelance writer in his hometown of Frankfurt. In 1983, he published his first novel Das Bett (The Bed), followed by many others, along with film scripts, theater plays, radio plays, opera libretti, short stories, and journalistic texts. Martin Mosebach has won many awards, including the 2003 Spycher: Leuk Literary Prize.
Critics greeted his most recent novel, Die Richtige (The Right One), with euphoria. It has even won over readers who were not previously Mosebach fans. As in his earlier novels, the protagonist is an artist: the painter Louis Creutz is venerated by the public but is ruthless with others, especially his models. With biting humor, Mosebach mercilessly exposes the gears and levers of the art world. NDR Kultur declares: “Martin Mosebach’s elastic, charged, dancing prose, and his cheerful-brooding observations on the oddities of human behavior are unique and unparalleled in contemporary German-language literature.”
Die Richtige. Novel. dtv 2025
Taube und Wildente. Novel. dtv 2022
Krass. Novel. Rowohlt Verlag 2021
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