TIMUR VERMES was born in Nuremberg in 1967, the son of a German mother and a Hungarian father who fled the country in 1956. He has been a journalist and ghostwriter before his first novel, Look Who's Back, appeared in 2012. Published in more than forty languages, it was one of the most successful debuts of the decade, and in 2015 was made into a film directed by David Wnendt.

JAMIE BULLOCH is the translator of novels by Timur Vermes, Steven Uhly, F. C. Delius, Daniela Krien, Jörg Fauser, Martin Suter, Roland Schimmelpfennig and Oliver Bottini. For his translation of Birgit Vanderbeke's The Mussel Feast he was the winner of the Schlegel-Tieck Prize.