Theodor Fontane, from Effi Briest Robert Walser, The Little Berliner
Alfred Döblin, from Berlin Alexanderplatz
Vladimir Nabokov, from King, Queen, Knave
Erich Kästner, from Going to the Dogs
Ernst Haffner, from Blood Brothers
Irmgard Keun, from The Artificial Silk Girl
Christopher Isherwood, A Berlin Diary: Winter 1932 3
Thomas Wolfe, The Dark Messiah
Hans Fallada, from Alone in Berlin
Heinz Rein, Berlin, April 1945
Peter Schneider, from The Wall Jumper
Thomas Brussig, from Heroes Like Us
Len Deighton, from Funeral in Berlin
Christa Wolf, from They Divided the Sky
Ian McEwan, from The Innocent
Günter Grass, The Diving Duck
Wladimir Kaminer, Business Camouflage
Chloe Aridjis, from Book of Clouds
Uwe Timm, The Reichstag, Wrapped
Kevin Barry, Berlin Arkonaplatz My Lesbian Summer Jean-Philippe Toussaint, from Television
Jenny Erpenbeck, from Go, Went, Gone
Philip Hensher's novels include The Northern Clemency, which was short-listed for the Man Booker Prize; Kitchen Venom, which won the Somerset Maugham Award, and The Mulberry Empire , which was long-listed for the Man Booker Prize. Chosen by Granta as one of its Best Young British Novelists, he is professor of creative writing at Bath Spa University and a columnist for The Guardian, The Spectator, and The Independent . He lives in London.