Paul Auster is the bestselling author of 4 3 2 1, Winter Journal, Sunset Park, Invisible, The Brooklyn Follies, The Book of Illusions, and The New York Trilogy, among many other works. In 2006 he was awarded the Prince of Asturias Prize for Literature. Among his other honors are the Prix Médicis étranger for Leviathan, the Independent Spirit Award for the screenplay of Smoke, and the Premio Napoli for Sunset Park. In 2012 he was the first recipient of the NYC Literary Honors in the category of Fiction. He has also been a finalist for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award (The Book of Illusions), the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction (The Music of Chance), and the Edgar Award (City of Glass). He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a Commandeur de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. His work has been translated into more than forty languages. He lives in Brooklyn, New York. His latest book, Talking to Strangers, was published by Rowohlt. © Foto: Spencer Ostrander

Christoph Amend, born in 1974, is the editor-in-chief of ZEITmagazin and publisher of ZEIT's art magazine "Weltkunst". ZEITmagazin's international issue, a bi-annual in English, was launched in 2013. In 2016 he launched ZEITmagazin MANN, a stand-alone men’s magazine for the German market. Before joining DIE ZEIT Amend was the editor of the sunday supplement of Berlin's daily "Der Tagesspiegel" and deputy editor of "Süddeutsche Zeitung jetzt-Magazin". For his book "Morgen tanzt die ganze Welt“ ("Tomorrow the whole world will dance") he won the Hermann Hesse Junior book award in 2004. He's the co-publisher of the book "Die Grünen - Das Buch" ("The Green Party - The Book") which was published in 2011. In 2012 he wrote a memoir with German actress Iris Berben ("Ein Jahr - ein Leben"). © Foto: Diana Pfammatter für DIE ZEIT

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