Lukas Bärfuss (*1971) is one of the leading, mid-generation German-language authors, as well as an award-winning playwright, theatre director and dramaturge. He has been a freelance writer since 1997 and teaches at various universities in Switzerland and Germany. Between 2009 and 2013, he worked as a dramaturge at the Schauspielhaus Zurich. His novels have been translated into twenty languages and his plays performed worldwide. His writing provokes and irritates. He takes on current and controversial topics, such as the role of development aid in the Rwandan genocide, the suicide of his brother, stalking, or the sexual life of a mentally disabled young woman. He has received numerous awards for his works, including the Berlin Literature Prize (2013), the Swiss Book Prize (2014), and the most prestigious prize for German-language literature, the Georg Büchner Prize (2019).