Volker WeidermannVolker Weidermann (b. 1969) is literary editor at Der Spiegel and the award-winning author of several literary histories and critical biographies. In 2009, he won the Kurt Tucholsky Prize for Literary Journalism for Buch der verbrannten Bücer ('Book of Burned Books'). Summer Before the Dark, his first work to appear in English, was a bestseller in Germany and is being translated into several languages. Read More Read Less