Navid Kermani, born in 1967 in Siegen, lives as a freelance writer in Cologne. He has received numerous awards, including the Kleist Prize, the Joseph Breitbach Prize, the Hölderlin Prize, the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade, and in 2024 the Thomas Mann Prize for his novel Das Alphabet bis S (novel, 2023). Published by Hanser to date are also Dein Name (novel, 2011), Über den Zufall (Edition Akzente, 2012), Große Liebe (novel, 2014), Album (stories, 2014), Sozusagen Paris (novel, 2016), as well as his correspondence with Natan Sznaider, Israel (2023), and most recently Sommer 24 (novel, 2026). Ayda, Bär und Hase (2017) was his first book in Hanser’s children’s and young adult program, followed by Jeder soll von da, wo er ist, einen Schritt näher kommen (2022) and Zu Hause ist es am schönsten, sagte die linke Hand und hielt sich an der Heizung fest (with illustrations by Mehrdad Zaeri, 2025).
