Sten Nadolny

Sten Nadolny (pronounced [stɛn naː.ˈdɔl.niː] ⓘ; born 29 July 1942, in Zehdenick, Province of Brandenburg) is a German novelist.

Nadolny worked for about a year as a history teacher before entering the film industry as a production manager, an experience he wrote about in his first novel, the semi-autobiographical Netzkarte.

It details the adventures of a young man named Ole Reuter, who purchases a "Netzkarte", or ticket that allows him to travel by train throughout (then West) Germany.

His best known work is The Discovery of Slowness (1987; originally published in 1983 as Die Entdeckung der Langsamkeit),[3] a fictionalized meditation on the life and lessons of British Arctic explorer Sir John Franklin.

A pre-publication portion of the novel titled Kopenhagen 1801 (which would become the fifth chapter) had earned Nadolny the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize in 1980.