Eschbach, Andreas

Andreas Eschbach was born 1959 in Ulm, Germany. In 1996, his first novel, "Die Haarteppichknupfer" ("The Hair Carpet Makers"), won one of the highest awards of German science fiction, the SFCD-Literaturpreis. His second novel, "Solarstation", won the other great German science fiction award, the Kurd Lasswitz Preis. His third novel, "Jesus Video", won both of them, became a nationwide bestseller in 2000, and was turned into a movie in 2002.

His first translation into another language was in 1998, when "Die Haarteppichknupfer" was published in France as "Des milliards des tapis de cheveux".