Paul Ingendaay
(born 05.01.1961 in Cologne), author, journalist
Paul Ingendaay studied English and Hispanic studies in Cologne, Dublin and Munich. During his time as literary critic at the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, he received the Alfred Kerr Prize for Literary Criticism. From 1998 he lived in Madrid for a long time and worked as a culture correspondent reporting from the Iberian peninsula. His first book Gebrauchsanweisung für Spanien (i.e. User Manual for Spain) was published in 2002, and was followed in 2006 by his debut novel Warum du mich verlassen hast (i.e. Why Did You Leave Me). This work earned him the aspekte Literature Prize and the Lower Rhine Literature Prize of the City of Krefeld, and he was also nominated for the Leipzig Book Fair Prize. Paul Ingendaay lives in Berlin.