Michael Kleeberg

Ernest Hemingway: Daredevil, charmer, bon vivant. Definitely a legend. And at the same time, a man driven by an inner compulsion who always had to prove himself, demanding everything from himself and others.
With a clever twist, Michael Kleeberg sets out on the trail of his larger-than-life colleague—and forges his own identity: as a Hemingway scholar with heart and soul. What turns a boy into a man? What turns a man into a writer? And what turns a writer into an icon?—These questions haunt the novel’s protagonist as he searches for Hemingway’s “last secret.” An exciting game of cat-and-mouse between reality and fiction.

Michael Kleeberg studied political science, history, and visual communication, working as a journalist, nurse, and dockworker during his studies. He lived in Paris for twelve years, and as part of the “West-Eastern Divan” writers’ exchange program, he made numerous trips to the Middle East. In 2016, he received the Konrad Adenauer Foundation’s Literature Prize for his body of work.