Sten Nadolny (pronounced[stɛnnaː.ˈdɔl.niː]ⓘ; born 29 July 1942, inZehdenick,Province of Brandenburg) is a German novelist.[1] His parents, Burkhard and Isabella Nadolny, were also writers.
Nadolny grew up in the town ofTraunstein, inUpper Bavaria.[2] After receiving hisAbitur, he studied history and political science in Munich, Göttingen, Tübingen and Berlin. Nadolny received his PhD in 1976 at theFree University of Berlin. His dissertation was on German disarmament diplomacy at the 1932/33Geneva Conference, shortly before Hitler came to power. Nadolny's grandfather,Rudolf Nadolny, had led the German delegation.
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-autobiographicalNetzkarte. He currently lives inBerlin.[3]
Nadolny's first novel,Netzkarte, was published in 1981. Originally, it was written as a script for a film that was never realized. 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. Nadolny revisits the character of Ole Reuter in a sequel,Er oder Ich ("Him or Me"), published in 1999.
His best known work isThe Discovery of Slowness (1987; originally published in 1983 asDie Entdeckung der Langsamkeit),[3] a fictionalized meditation on the life and lessons of British Arctic explorer SirJohn Franklin. A pre-publication portion of the novel titledKopenhagen 1801 (which would become the fifth chapter) had earned Nadolny theIngeborg Bachmann Prize in 1980.
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