Michael Krüger (writer)

[2] After completing secondary schooling, he was apprenticed to a publisher and later studied philosophy and literature.

[2] From 1968 he worked as an editor at the publishing house Carl Hanser Verlag, becoming director in 1986.

[1] Krüger's work has garnered many important accolades, including the 1986 Toucan Prize and the 1996 Prix Médicis étranger.

[citation needed] Krüger wrote the introduction to the 2010 New York Review of Books edition of Jakov Lind's Soul of Wood.

[citation needed] From 1975 he became a jury member of the European literary award Petrarca-Preis.