Daniel Kehlmann’s new novel The Director is based on the life of the great film director, the Austrian G W Pabst (1885 – 1967). When the Nazis seize power, Pabst flees to Hollywood, but there, the world-famous director suddenly looks like a nobody. Not even his protege Greta Garbo can help him. Back home in Austria, pursued by Goebbels, the Nazi minister of propaganda, Pabst stumbles into a hopeless entanglement with a Jewish woman. Translation by Ross Benjamin.
Born in Munich in 1975, Daniel Kehlmann has lived in Vienna, Berlin, and New York. His novel Measuring the World (2005) was a huge international success. Shortlisted for the Booker Prize, his books have won numerous awards and been translated into over 20 languages. He has published six novels: Measuring the World, Me and Kaminski, Fame, F, You Should Have Left, and Tyll, which is being adapted into a Netflix film.
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