Maxim Biller is a colorful, forthright character. But, as the 64-year-old Czech-born German author says, as a person of letters, to some degree or other you are always going to tell your own story. As ...

A German journalist, novelist, and crafter of short stories, Maxim Biller is a difficult writer in the sense that his works yield up their meaning only with focused, strenuous effort. This is the best ...

© Kiepenheuer & Witsch Mother-son relationships can be notoriously difficult, as in Maxim Biller’s new novel Mama Odessa. Biller tells the story of the Grinbaum ...

He influenced writers from Salman Rushdie to Danilo Kiš – now a new novel by Maxim Biller takes us deep into the legend of the Polish-Jewish novelist. By Chris Power Inside the Head of Bruno Schulz ...

Maxim Biller, trans. from German by Anthea Bell. Pushkin Collection, $16 trade paper (96p) ISBN 978-1-78227-100-0 Biller, recipient of the Theodor Wolff Prize for journalism in German, plunges into ...

Simon & Schuster, 224 pages, $23. Though he’ll never be as famous here as he is in Germany, the following should be said: Maxim Biller is a bad writer. One wonders which is more incompetent, his prose ...

Jewish Czech-born German writer Maxim Biller stars in Jerusalem International Writers Festival The Israeli literary community will be in high-profile attendance as well, with the likes of Dorit ...

With his new novel, Maxim Biller has created a touching literary memorial to his mother. © Kiepenheuer & Witsch Mother-son relationships can be notoriously difficult ...