Ralf Rothmann

Who is Ralf Rothmann?

Ralf Rothmann is a German novelist, poet, and dramatist. His novels have been translated into several languages with Knife Edge and Young Light being translated into English. Main subject of his work are both the bourgeois and proletarian reality of life in the Ruhr Metropolitan area as well as Berlin with an autobiographically colored focus on alienation, the attempt to escape these situations, and common solitude. His novel "Feuer brennt nicht" is a very moving portrait of an artist-writer torn between two women paying a high price for his infidelity. It is now available in English translation as "Fire doesn't burn" published by Seagull Books.