Ingo Schulze was born in Dresden in 1962 and lives in Berlin.
His books, including Simple Stories, New Lives, Adam and Evelyn, Peter Holtz and The Righteous Murderers, have been hugely successful, are set on school reading lists, have been made into films and translated into 32 languages.
Ingo Schulze has received numerous national and international awards for his work, the most recent one the Uwe-Johnson Prize 2026.
He has been President of the German Academy for Language and Literature since 2023.