Pierre Jarawan

(1985) was born to a Lebanese father and a German mother and moved to Germany with his family at the age of three. Inspired by his father’s imaginative bedtime stories, he started writing at the age of thirteen. He has won international prizes as a slam poet, and in 2016 was named Literature Star of the Year by the daily newspaper Abendzeitung. Jarawan received a literary scholarship from the City of Munich (the Bayerischer Kunstförderpreis) for The Storyteller, his first novel, which went on to become a bestseller and booksellers’ favorite in Germany and the Netherlands and is now conquering the UK and US, where he has recently been touring. Pierre Jarawan lives in Munich.