Juli Zeh

(Bonn, 1974), according to a Dutch newspaper she is 'the most exciting German writer around, and an expert in international law, in addition to being a writer, which appears from the topics of her books but also from the detailed description of the criminal investigation in her latest novel Schilf (2007), a philosophical whodunit about two friends, rival phycisists, faced with a kidnapping and a murder. In her second novel Spieltrieb (2004), in which two grammar school pupils torment a teacher to extremes, moral responsibility plays an important part. When their game gets out of hand, the judge has to decide. Zeh also writes nonfiction, essays and plays. Her most recent work, Das land der Menschen (Land of the People, 2008), is a children's book, in which she playfully deals with themes like prosecution and tolerance. Her novels have been published in more than twenty-five countries.