Daniel Kehlmann and Benjamin Markovits - World Literature Weekend 2011
Part wunderkind and part enfant terrible, Kehlmann completed his first novel while still a student, and rose to worldwide fame in 2005 with the publication of Measuring the World, a historical novel based on the lives of the explorer and naturalist...
London Review Bookshop Podcast
June 19, 20111h 15m
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Show Notes
Novelists Daniel Kehlmann and Benjamin Markovits share interests in their work in biography, genius and failure, charisma and the question of how to give voice to real historical figures but have differences too; both make fuel for a very interesting conversation.
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